Bill Madlock

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 12, 1951 · Memphis, TN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1973

Final gameOctober 4, 1987

Seasons15 (1973–1987)

Texas Rangers 1973; Chicago Cubs 1974–1976; San Francisco Giants 1977–1978; Pittsburgh Pirates 1979; San Francisco Giants 1979; Pittsburgh Pirates 1980–1984; Los Angeles Dodgers 1985; Pittsburgh Pirates 1985; Los Angeles Dodgers 1986; Detroit Tigers 1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1987

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

144

33.1

577

513

33.8

141

45.6

47.8

8.1

39.7

RBI

28.7

42.6

79.4

52.2

.275

57.4

OBP

.345

60.3

SLG

.402

OPS

.747

47.1

wRC+

113.6

OPS+

110.3

55.1

wOBA

.346

58.8

sWAR

3.0

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.7

OPS+

122.6

82.9

sWAR

46.7

98.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1973	21	85	77	16	27	5	3	1	5	7	9	3	2	.351	.412	.532	.944	173.1	167.8	.431	1.1
1974	128	509	453	65	142	21	5	9	54	42	39	11	7	.313	.374	.442	.815	123.8	123.2	.376	3.4
1975	130	565	514	77	182	29	7	7	64	42	34	9	7	.354	.402	.479	.881	143.7	138.6	.407	5.1
1976	142	588	514	68	174	36	1	15	84	56	27	15	11	.339	.412	.500	.912	151.8	148.7	.415	5.8
1977	140	585	533	70	161	28	1	12	46	43	33	13	10	.302	.360	.426	.785	109.1	111.2	.350	2.8
1978	122	509	447	76	138	26	3	15	44	48	39	16	5	.309	.378	.481	.859	143.9	143.6	.388	4.5
1979	154	623	560	85	167	26	5	14	85	52	41	32	11	.298	.355	.438	.792	115.2	116.1	.356	3.4
1980	137	546	494	62	137	22	4	10	53	45	33	16	10	.277	.341	.399	.739	103.0	104.9	.336	2.1
1981	82	320	279	35	95	23	1	6	45	34	17	18	6	.341	.413	.495	.907	157.1	153.1	.413	3.4
1982	154	634	568	92	181	33	3	19	95	48	39	18	6	.319	.368	.488	.856	131.5	134.6	.379	4.8
1983	130	530	473	68	153	21	0	12	68	49	24	3	4	.323	.386	.444	.830	129.6	128.1	.377	3.9
1984	103	435	403	38	102	16	0	4	44	26	29	3	1	.253	.297	.323	.620	71.3	75.0	.286	0.1
1985	144	577	513	69	141	27	1	12	56	49	53	10	4	.275	.345	.402	.747	113.6	110.3	.346	3.0
1986	111	421	379	38	106	17	0	10	60	30	43	3	3	.280	.336	.404	.739	109.4	110.4	.336	2.1
1987	108	445	387	61	102	18	0	17	57	34	50	4	3	.264	.337	.442	.779	109.9	109.2	.343	1.1

Career totals

1,806

404th-most career G

7,372

386th-most career PA

6,594

382nd-most career AB

920

456th-most career R

2,008

293rd-most career H

348

321st-most career 2B

163

RBI

860

448th-most career RBI

605

510

174

460th-most career SB

.3045

164th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3655

368th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4418

OPS

.8073

432nd-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1987-06-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	3	4	0	12
1985-08-18	NYM @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	2	3	0	10
1978-09-08	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	2	4	1	9
1974-09-24	WSH @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	2	2	0	9
1977-09-03	STL @ SF Gameday	7	2	3	2	2	0	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× All-Star Game MVP3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.