MLB / Players

Bob Boone

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 19, 1947 · San Diego, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1972

Final gameSeptember 27, 1990

Seasons19 (1972–1990)

Philadelphia Phillies 1972–1981; California Angels 1982–1988; Kansas City Royals 1989–1990

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

144

30.2

503

442

4.8

3.2

0.8

1.6

21.4

17.5

RBI

18.3

29.4

98.4

5.6

.222

1.6

OBP

.287

6.3

SLG

.305

3.2

OPS

.593

3.2

wRC+

63.1

OPS+

63.2

2.4

wOBA

.273

2.4

sWAR

0.7

13.5

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.0

11.4

OPS+

82.7

12.3

sWAR

28.4

96.2

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	16	57	51	4	14	1	0	1	4	5	7	1	0	.275	.333	.353	.686	84.6	93.1	.307	0.2
1973	145	575	521	42	136	20	2	10	61	41	36	3	4	.261	.311	.365	.675	80.9	84.6	.308	1.9
1974	146	541	488	41	118	24	3	3	52	35	29	3	1	.242	.295	.322	.617	64.1	70.1	.287	0.8
1975	97	329	289	28	71	14	2	2	20	32	14	1	3	.246	.322	.329	.651	76.7	79.1	.306	1.0
1976	121	418	361	40	98	18	2	4	54	45	44	2	5	.271	.348	.366	.713	96.2	101.9	.326	2.1
1977	132	495	440	55	125	26	4	11	66	42	54	5	5	.284	.343	.436	.780	105.4	106.2	.348	3.1
1978	132	495	435	48	123	18	4	12	62	46	37	2	5	.283	.347	.425	.772	113.5	115.8	.349	3.6
1979	119	454	398	38	114	21	3	9	58	49	33	1	4	.286	.367	.422	.789	114.6	113.3	.359	3.3
1980	141	535	480	34	110	23	1	9	55	48	41	3	4	.229	.299	.338	.637	69.7	75.1	.291	1.1
1981	76	253	227	19	48	7	0	4	24	22	16	2	2	.211	.279	.295	.574	58.5	61.6	.273	0.3
1982	143	539	472	42	121	17	0	7	58	39	34	0	2	.256	.310	.337	.647	78.3	78.9	.295	1.7
1983	142	509	468	46	120	18	0	9	52	24	42	4	3	.256	.289	.353	.641	74.4	77.0	.288	1.4
1984	139	486	450	33	91	16	1	3	32	25	45	3	3	.202	.242	.262	.504	35.8	40.5	.232	-0.9
1985	150	520	460	37	114	17	0	5	55	37	35	1	2	.248	.306	.317	.623	72.9	72.6	.285	1.3
1986	144	503	442	48	98	12	2	7	49	43	30	1	0	.222	.287	.305	.593	63.1	63.2	.273	0.7
1987	128	442	389	42	94	18	0	3	33	35	36	0	2	.242	.304	.311	.615	68.7	66.5	.281	0.8
1988	122	392	352	38	104	17	0	5	39	29	26	2	2	.295	.352	.386	.739	112.4	110.0	.339	3.0
1989	131	469	405	33	111	13	2	1	43	49	37	3	2	.274	.351	.323	.675	96.0	93.0	.319	2.5
1990	40	136	117	11	28	3	0	0	9	17	12	1	1	.239	.336	.265	.601	79.9	72.2	.296	0.5

Career totals

2,264

125th-most career G

8,148

271st-most career PA

7,245

258th-most career AB

679

1,838

381st-most career H

303

476th-most career 2B

105

RBI

826

488th-most career RBI

663

430th-most career BB

608

.2537

OBP

.3149

SLG

.3462

OPS

.6611

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
1988-06-27	MIN @ LAA Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	4	0	8
1982-08-21	DET @ LAA Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	8
1978-07-22	HOU @ PHI Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	3	1	7
1977-07-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	1	0	7
1979-05-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	5	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.

Honors

7× Gold Glove4× 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.