MLB / Players

Bill Stein

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1947 · Battle Creek, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1972

Final gameOctober 6, 1985

Seasons14 (1972–1985)

St. Louis Cardinals 1972–1973; Chicago White Sox 1974–1976; Seattle Mariners 1977–1980; Texas Rangers 1981–1985

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

151

52.7

600

41.1

556

60.3

4.1

144

34.9

47.9

41.8

RBI

42.5

41.8

21.9

.259

19.2

OBP

.299

4.8

SLG

.394

OPS

.693

16.4

wRC+

84.7

15.1

OPS+

87.1

15.1

wOBA

.309

12.3

sWAR

1.2

17.8

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.1

20.7

OPS+

90.1

23.2

sWAR

6.3

81.9

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
1972	14	38	35	2	11	0	1	2	3	0	7	1	0	.314	.314	.543	.857	144.1	141.9	.384	0.3
1973	32	62	55	4	12	2	0	0	2	7	18	0	0	.218	.306	.255	.561	64.7	58.6	.278	-0.1
1974	13	51	43	5	12	1	0	0	5	7	8	0	0	.279	.380	.302	.682	95.7	96.9	.320	0.1
1975	76	247	226	23	61	7	1	3	21	18	32	2	2	.270	.327	.350	.676	92.3	90.0	.319	0.5
1976	117	422	392	32	105	15	2	4	36	22	67	4	2	.268	.310	.347	.657	90.2	92.0	.308	1.2
1977	151	600	556	53	144	26	5	13	67	29	79	3	4	.259	.299	.394	.693	84.7	87.1	.309	1.2
1978	114	449	403	41	105	24	4	4	37	37	56	1	0	.261	.318	.370	.687	90.8	92.7	.314	1.3
1979	88	276	250	28	62	9	2	7	27	17	28	1	2	.248	.297	.384	.681	78.0	80.5	.305	0.4
1980	67	225	198	16	53	5	1	5	27	16	25	1	1	.268	.321	.379	.700	85.5	90.2	.313	0.3
1981	53	126	115	21	38	6	0	2	22	7	15	1	2	.330	.360	.435	.795	126.8	133.5	.353	0.6
1982	85	200	184	14	44	8	0	1	16	12	23	0	0	.239	.293	.299	.592	68.1	67.1	.275	0.0
1983	78	242	232	21	72	15	1	2	33	8	31	2	3	.310	.331	.409	.740	104.9	105.1	.332	0.8
1984	27	48	43	3	12	1	0	0	3	5	9	0	0	.279	.354	.302	.656	75.6	82.3	.295	0.0
1985	44	81	79	5	20	3	1	1	12	1	15	0	0	.253	.272	.354	.626	62.9	69.6	.274	-0.2

Career totals

959

3,067

2,811

268

751

122

RBI

311

186

413

.2672

OBP

.3132

SLG

.3703

OPS

.6835

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
1977-05-03	SEA @ BOS Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	4	8
1977-07-08	SEA @ MIN Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	4	8
1976-07-18	MIL @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	3	7
1980-04-29	SEA @ MIN Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	3	7
1978-08-28	SEA @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	2	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.