MLB / Players

Bill Melton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornJuly 7, 1945 · Gulfport, MS, USA

MLB debutMay 4, 1968

Final gameAugust 30, 1977

Seasons10 (1968–1977)

Chicago White Sox 1968–1975; California Angels 1976; Cleveland Indians 1977

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified batters

149

61.4

607

52.8

512

42.5

26.8

123

16.5

13.4

63.8

RBI

59.1

81.9

106

11.8

39.4

56.7

.240

12.6

OBP

.346

49.6

SLG

.359

27.6

OPS

.705

33.1

wRC+

103.8

41.7

OPS+

98.5

32.3

wOBA

.336

43.3

sWAR

2.5

47.2

of 128 qualified 1975 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.0

67.6

OPS+

111.4

65.3

sWAR

22.6

94.5

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
1968	34	122	109	5	29	8	0	2	16	10	32	1	1	.266	.322	.394	.717	119.1	116.1	.333	0.8
1969	157	628	556	67	142	26	2	23	87	56	106	1	2	.255	.326	.433	.759	103.8	105.8	.344	2.6
1970	141	589	514	74	135	15	1	33	96	56	107	2	4	.263	.340	.488	.828	122.3	121.8	.370	3.4
1971	150	621	543	72	146	18	2	33	86	61	87	3	3	.269	.352	.492	.843	137.2	134.7	.382	5.2
1972	57	232	208	22	51	5	0	7	30	23	31	1	1	.245	.319	.370	.689	105.5	103.9	.324	1.1
1973	152	642	560	83	155	29	1	20	87	75	66	4	4	.277	.363	.439	.802	124.3	122.6	.367	4.3
1974	136	570	495	63	120	17	0	21	63	59	60	3	2	.242	.326	.404	.730	108.4	107.3	.338	2.6
1975	149	607	512	62	123	16	0	15	70	78	106	5	4	.240	.346	.359	.705	103.8	98.5	.336	2.5
1976	118	392	341	31	71	17	3	6	42	44	53	2	0	.208	.300	.328	.628	91.1	89.5	.301	0.1
1977	50	154	133	17	32	11	0	0	14	17	21	1	3	.241	.331	.323	.654	87.2	82.5	.308	0.0

Career totals

1,144

4,557

3,971

496

1,004

162

160

RBI

591

479

669

.2528

OBP

.3366

SLG

.4190

OPS

.7556

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	2B	HR	RBI	TB
1969-06-24	CWS @ MIL Gameday	5	3	4	1	3	3	14
1970-09-09	LAA @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	9
1970-06-09	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	8
1971-09-29	MIL @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	8
1974-07-04	KC @ CWS Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	4	7

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

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