MLB / Players

Bill Monbouquette

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 11, 1936 · Medford, MA, USA

MLB debutJuly 18, 1958

Final gameSeptember 3, 1968

Seasons11 (1958–1968)

Boston Red Sox 1958–1965; Detroit Tigers 1966–1967; New York Yankees 1967–1968; San Francisco Giants 1968

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

30.6

70.8

20.8

4.2

66.7

SHO

45.8

239

18.1

16.7

91.7

110

29.2

4.2

228.7

65.3

ERA

3.70

31.9

WHIP

1.220

45.8

K/9

4.33

12.5

FIP

3.79

13.9

FIP-

102.2

26.4

ERA+

100.3

40.3

sWAR

2.0

37.5

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.5

51.7

sWAR

19.8

93.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1958	10	19	17	0	3	0	0	1	0	2	0	.176	.176	.176	.353	-24.0	-5.1	.162	0.9
1959	35	51	46	1	3	0	0	1	2	28	0	.065	.104	.065	.169	-69.0	-53.4	.088	0.9
1960	38	80	65	9	6	0	0	1	7	28	0	.092	.181	.092	.273	-31.6	-25.1	.149	2.8
1961	33	93	69	6	9	0	0	5	10	29	0	.130	.241	.130	.371	3.3	1.2	.198	4.3
1962	35	88	73	5	7	0	0	1	7	39	0	.096	.175	.096	.271	-32.4	-25.6	.145	4.1
1963	37	102	88	6	10	1	0	1	4	43	0	.114	.152	.125	.277	-36.9	-22.4	.135	2.1
1964	39	85	72	3	6	0	1	3	8	22	0	.083	.175	.111	.286	-29.7	-20.4	.151	1.5
1965	36	85	68	2	4	1	0	2	7	30	0	.059	.147	.074	.220	-48.1	-37.4	.123	2.0
1966	30	31	26	0	4	0	0	1	1	14	1	.154	.185	.154	.339	-12.7	-1.9	.162	-0.6
1967	35	36	32	1	5	0	0	0	1	8	0	.156	.182	.156	.338	-7.4	2.8	.163	2.7
1968	24	30	26	2	3	1	0	2	2	6	0	.115	.179	.154	.332	-5.8	3.4	.168	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1958	10	8	3	4	0	3	0	52	20	20	30	4	54.3	3.31	1.325	4.97	3.40	84.9	120.9	0.9
1959	34	17	7	7	0	4	0	165	70	33	87	15	151.7	4.15	1.305	5.16	3.31	81.7	97.7	0.9
1960	35	30	14	11	0	12	3	217	87	68	134	18	215.0	3.64	1.326	5.61	3.22	79.8	110.9	2.8
1961	32	32	14	14	0	12	1	233	89	100	161	24	236.3	3.39	1.409	6.13	3.73	90.1	122.2	4.3
1962	35	35	15	13	0	11	4	227	87	65	153	22	235.3	3.33	1.241	5.85	3.30	80.4	123.2	4.1
1963	37	36	20	10	0	13	1	258	113	42	174	31	266.7	3.81	1.125	5.87	3.14	83.2	98.9	2.1
1964	36	35	13	14	1	7	5	258	105	40	120	34	234.0	4.04	1.274	4.62	3.85	100.0	95.3	1.5
1965	35	35	10	18	0	10	2	239	94	40	110	32	228.7	3.70	1.220	4.33	3.79	102.2	100.3	2.0
1966	30	14	7	8	0	2	1	120	54	22	61	14	102.7	4.73	1.383	5.35	3.75	107.1	73.9	-0.6
1967	35	10	6	5	1	2	1	123	35	17	55	6	135.3	2.33	1.034	3.66	2.65	84.7	134.4	2.7
1968	24	11	5	8	1	2	0	103	49	15	37	11	101.7	4.34	1.161	3.28	3.47	119.5	66.8	-1.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

352

700

582

RBI

249

.1031

OBP

.1727

SLG

.1117

OPS

.2844

Pitching

G (P)

343

263

484th-most career GS

114

493rd-most career W

112

424th-most career L

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

1,962

471st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,122

464th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

462

ERA

3.684

WHIP

1.2525

346th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.15

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	3B	RBI	TB
1964-08-09	BOS @ CWS Gameday	3	0	1	1	2	3
1961-06-01	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2
1958-07-31	BOS @ DET Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1961-08-04	ATH @ BOS Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2
1967-09-08	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1961-05-12	BOS @ TEX Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	4	17	0
1963-05-24	BOS @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	12	1
1963-08-25	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	3	11	1
1963-06-12	TEX @ BOS Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	1	10	1
1964-05-23	ATH @ BOS Gameday	8.0	8	3	2	1	10	2

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

3× 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.