Bip Roberts

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 150 lb

BornOctober 27, 1963 · Berkeley, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 7, 1986

Final gameSeptember 27, 1998

Seasons12 (1986–1998)

San Diego Padres 1986; San Diego Padres 1988–1991; Cincinnati Reds 1992–1993; San Diego Padres 1994–1995; Kansas City Royals 1996; Cleveland Indians 1997; Kansas City Royals 1997; Detroit Tigers 1998; Oakland Athletics 1998

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified batters

105

49.4

449

55.8

403

61.5

32.7

129

82.7

14.7

83.3

3.2

RBI

9.6

48.1

61.5

19.2

.320

89.7

OBP

.383

SLG

.397

24.4

OPS

.780

41.7

wRC+

112.0

OPS+

106.9

48.1

wOBA

.356

49.4

sWAR

2.2

60.9

of 157 qualified 1994 batters (min 362 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.1

47.7

OPS+

100.7

43.2

sWAR

16.8

92.1

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
1986	101	258	241	34	61	5	2	1	12	14	29	14	12	.253	.293	.303	.596	65.2	66.6	.278	-0.1
1988	5	10	9	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	.333	.400	.333	.733	125.8	115.4	.354	0.1
1989	117	387	329	81	99	15	8	3	25	49	45	21	11	.301	.391	.422	.814	143.0	133.7	.382	3.2
1990	149	629	556	104	172	36	3	9	44	55	65	46	12	.309	.375	.433	.809	127.7	122.2	.372	4.1
1991	117	472	424	66	119	13	3	3	32	37	71	26	11	.281	.342	.347	.689	96.7	92.8	.324	1.5
1992	147	601	532	92	172	34	6	4	45	62	54	44	16	.323	.393	.432	.826	138.9	131.3	.382	4.6
1993	83	336	292	46	70	13	0	1	18	38	46	26	6	.240	.330	.295	.625	75.1	69.9	.298	0.1
1994	105	449	403	52	129	15	5	2	31	39	57	21	7	.320	.383	.397	.780	112.0	106.9	.356	2.2
1995	73	316	296	40	90	14	0	2	25	17	36	20	2	.304	.346	.372	.718	94.9	93.2	.327	0.7
1996	90	372	339	39	96	21	2	0	52	25	38	12	9	.283	.331	.357	.688	70.0	74.9	.301	-0.3
1997	120	468	431	63	130	20	2	4	44	28	67	18	3	.302	.345	.385	.730	89.0	89.2	.327	0.5
1998	95	333	295	45	79	17	0	1	24	31	38	16	4	.268	.344	.336	.680	83.7	79.4	.314	0.1

Career totals

1,202

4,631

4,147

663

1,220

203

RBI

352

396

548

264

220th-most career SB

.2942

323rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3575

SLG

.3798

OPS

.7373

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
1991-08-11	CIN @ SD Gameday	4	4	4	0	2	2	10
1992-08-24	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	2	1	2	8
1990-06-26	SD @ HOU Gameday	5	2	4	3	0	2	7
1993-06-07	CIN @ WSH Gameday	6	2	4	3	0	1	7
1989-08-11	ATL @ SD Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	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.