Bob Bailey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 13, 1942 · Long Beach, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1962

Final gameOctober 2, 1978

Seasons17 (1962–1978)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1962–1966; Los Angeles Dodgers 1967–1968; Montreal Expos 1969–1975; Cincinnati Reds 1976; Boston Red Sox 1977; Cincinnati Reds 1977; Boston Red Sox 1978

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

152

67.2

614

507

33.6

45.8

142

46.6

36.6

22.9

76.3

RBI

66.4

100

94.7

107

6.1

29.8

35.1

.280

53.4

OBP

.396

96.2

SLG

.446

80.2

OPS

.842

88.5

wRC+

136.1

OPS+

130.9

79.4

wOBA

.394

90.8

sWAR

4.4

81.7

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.0

69.8

OPS+

110.6

sWAR

33.7

97.1

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
1962	14	50	42	6	7	2	1	0	6	6	10	1	1	.167	.271	.262	.533	48.8	44.8	.258	-0.1
1963	154	640	570	60	130	15	3	12	45	58	98	10	9	.228	.303	.328	.632	84.8	82.6	.295	1.3
1964	143	582	530	73	149	26	3	11	51	44	78	10	8	.281	.336	.404	.740	112.1	108.9	.337	2.9
1965	159	702	626	87	160	28	3	11	49	70	93	10	14	.256	.330	.363	.692	100.0	95.7	.321	2.5
1966	126	433	380	51	106	19	3	13	46	47	65	5	3	.279	.360	.447	.807	127.3	123.7	.362	3.0
1967	116	372	322	21	73	8	2	4	28	40	50	5	5	.227	.310	.301	.611	85.9	83.8	.289	0.5
1968	105	365	322	24	73	9	3	8	39	38	69	1	2	.227	.308	.348	.656	105.8	104.3	.309	1.7
1969	111	405	358	46	95	16	6	9	53	40	76	3	3	.265	.337	.419	.756	110.3	109.6	.347	1.0
1970	131	429	352	77	101	19	3	28	84	72	70	5	3	.287	.407	.597	1.004	163.8	164.7	.439	4.5
1971	157	654	545	65	137	21	4	14	83	97	105	13	7	.251	.359	.382	.741	114.0	109.8	.347	3.2
1972	143	560	489	55	114	10	4	16	57	59	112	6	7	.233	.315	.368	.683	91.7	92.3	.316	1.5
1973	151	607	513	77	140	25	4	26	86	88	99	5	8	.273	.379	.489	.868	139.3	136.2	.393	5.2
1974	152	614	507	69	142	20	2	20	73	100	107	4	7	.280	.396	.446	.842	136.1	130.9	.394	4.4
1975	106	279	227	23	62	5	0	5	30	46	38	4	4	.273	.392	.361	.753	114.8	106.8	.364	1.1
1976	69	141	124	17	37	6	1	6	23	16	26	0	0	.298	.376	.508	.884	151.8	148.6	.405	1.2
1977	51	94	81	9	20	2	1	2	11	12	11	1	1	.247	.340	.370	.711	89.0	90.4	.322	0.0
1978	43	116	94	12	18	3	0	4	9	19	19	2	1	.191	.328	.351	.679	89.5	84.5	.323	-0.2

Career totals

1,931

308th-most career G

7,043

448th-most career PA

6,082

494th-most career AB

772

1,564

234

189

431st-most career HR

RBI

773

852

218th-most career BB

1,126

284th-most career SO

.2572

OBP

.3474

SLG

.4030

OPS

.7504

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	BB	TB
1973-07-03	NYM @ WSH Gameday	6	2	4	1	2	7	0	11
1969-06-22	WSH @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	4	0	10
1973-06-27	WSH @ CHC Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	3	2	10
1966-08-12	PIT @ CIN Gameday	7	3	3	1	2	5	0	10
1963-05-03	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	4	3	0	2	5	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-17	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-21	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-22	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-10	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-09-30	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.