MLB / Players

Bob Horner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 6, 1957 · Junction City, KS, USA

MLB debutJune 16, 1978

Final gameJune 18, 1988

Seasons10 (1978–1988)

Atlanta Braves 1978–1986; St. Louis Cardinals 1988

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

141

581

35.7

517

38.1

39.7

141

42.1

25.4

RBI

74.6

38.9

61.1

5.6

57.1

.273

55.6

OBP

.336

39.7

SLG

.472

78.6

OPS

.808

68.3

wRC+

112.7

54.8

OPS+

114.8

58.7

wOBA

.359

68.3

sWAR

1.6

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.5

88.6

OPS+

126.9

87.5

sWAR

26.6

95.8

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
1978	89	359	323	50	86	17	1	23	63	24	42	0	0	.266	.313	.539	.852	132.8	136.4	.375	2.8
1979	121	515	487	66	153	15	1	33	98	22	74	0	2	.314	.346	.552	.898	134.6	133.9	.395	3.7
1980	124	495	463	81	124	14	1	35	89	27	50	3	1	.268	.307	.529	.836	125.2	125.9	.370	3.4
1981	79	336	300	42	83	10	0	15	42	32	39	2	3	.277	.345	.460	.805	126.5	124.7	.369	2.3
1982	140	572	499	85	130	24	0	32	97	66	75	3	5	.261	.350	.501	.851	135.2	131.9	.385	4.7
1983	104	439	386	75	117	25	1	20	68	50	63	4	2	.303	.383	.528	.911	149.5	143.8	.412	4.4
1984	32	129	113	15	31	8	0	3	19	14	17	0	0	.274	.349	.425	.774	110.3	110.8	.352	0.7
1985	130	540	483	61	129	25	3	27	89	50	57	1	1	.267	.333	.499	.832	124.7	124.3	.372	2.7
1986	141	581	517	70	141	22	0	27	87	52	72	1	4	.273	.336	.472	.808	112.7	114.8	.359	1.6
1988	60	247	206	15	53	9	1	3	33	32	23	0	0	.257	.348	.354	.703	101.0	102.9	.322	0.3

Career totals

1,020

4,213

3,777

560

1,047

169

218

330th-most career HR

RBI

685

369

512

.2772

OBP

.3400

SLG

.4993

128th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8393

245th-highest career OPS

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	TB
1986-07-06	WSH @ ATL Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	4	6	16
1985-07-13	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	4	4	2	1	1	3	11
1981-09-29	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	2	10
1978-07-28	WSH @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	2	10
1978-09-09	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	1	2	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

1× Rookie of the Year1× 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.