Bob Boyd
Memphis Red Sox 1947–1948; Chicago White Sox 1951; Chicago White Sox 1953–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1956–1960; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Milwaukee Braves 1961
Percentile snapshot
1957 season — qualified batters
of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 477 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 21 | 96 | 88 | 14 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .261 | .323 | .330 | .652 | 78.8 | 75.7 | .317 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 13 | 59 | 54 | 9 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .556 | .593 | .778 | 1.371 | 241.5 | 265.0 | .619 | 1.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | 21 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .278 | .563 | 57.2 | 55.3 | .278 | -0.1 |
| 1953 | 55 | 182 | 165 | 20 | 49 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 4 | .297 | .352 | .412 | .764 | 104.8 | 105.5 | .353 | 0.4 |
| 1954 | 29 | 61 | 56 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | .179 | .233 | .232 | .465 | 18.6 | 28.3 | .225 | -0.6 |
| 1956 | 70 | 262 | 225 | 28 | 70 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 30 | 14 | 0 | 5 | .311 | .395 | .400 | .795 | 121.8 | 118.4 | .373 | 1.0 |
| 1957 | 141 | 552 | 485 | 73 | 154 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 34 | 55 | 31 | 2 | 4 | .318 | .388 | .408 | .796 | 130.0 | 125.6 | .370 | 2.6 |
| 1958 | 125 | 432 | 401 | 58 | 124 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 36 | 25 | 24 | 1 | 1 | .309 | .350 | .439 | .789 | 123.3 | 123.0 | .356 | 1.8 |
| 1959 | 128 | 461 | 415 | 42 | 110 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 41 | 29 | 14 | 3 | 1 | .265 | .312 | .345 | .656 | 83.0 | 83.7 | .301 | -0.4 |
| 1960 | 71 | 88 | 82 | 9 | 26 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .317 | .364 | .427 | .790 | 116.2 | 116.5 | .357 | 0.3 |
| 1961 | 62 | 93 | 89 | 10 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 2 | .236 | .247 | .258 | .506 | 29.5 | 36.2 | .230 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-04-11 | CLB @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1957-04-21 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1958-06-29 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1957-09-15 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 1953-08-18 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-17 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-05-04 | IC @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-05-04 | IC @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-05-05 | IC @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-05-06 | MEM @ IC 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.
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.