Bo Jackson
Kansas City Royals 1986–1990; Chicago White Sox 1991; Chicago White Sox 1993; California Angels 1994
Percentile snapshot
1989 season — qualified batters
of 126 qualified 1989 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 25 | 91 | 82 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 34 | 3 | 1 | .207 | .286 | .329 | .615 | 68.3 | 66.9 | .283 | -0.2 |
| 1987 | 116 | 434 | 396 | 46 | 93 | 17 | 2 | 22 | 53 | 30 | 158 | 10 | 4 | .235 | .296 | .455 | .750 | 93.6 | 94.3 | .325 | 0.7 |
| 1988 | 124 | 468 | 439 | 63 | 108 | 16 | 4 | 25 | 68 | 25 | 146 | 27 | 6 | .246 | .287 | .472 | .758 | 104.1 | 109.3 | .330 | 1.2 |
| 1989 | 135 | 561 | 515 | 86 | 132 | 15 | 6 | 32 | 105 | 39 | 172 | 26 | 9 | .256 | .310 | .495 | .805 | 120.4 | 125.3 | .354 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 111 | 456 | 405 | 74 | 110 | 16 | 1 | 28 | 78 | 44 | 128 | 15 | 9 | .272 | .342 | .523 | .866 | 140.4 | 141.4 | .384 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 23 | 84 | 71 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 1 | .225 | .333 | .408 | .742 | 106.1 | 106.1 | .336 | 0.1 |
| 1993 | 85 | 308 | 284 | 32 | 66 | 9 | 0 | 16 | 45 | 23 | 106 | 0 | 2 | .232 | .289 | .433 | .722 | 92.7 | 94.7 | .322 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | 75 | 224 | 201 | 23 | 56 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 43 | 20 | 72 | 1 | 0 | .279 | .344 | .507 | .851 | 113.0 | 115.4 | .368 | 0.8 |
Career totals
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-07-17 | KC @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| 1987-04-14 | DET @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 1987-05-29 | TEX @ KC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1987-06-07 | KC @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1989-07-04 | KC @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.