Bob Melvin
Detroit Tigers 1985; San Francisco Giants 1986–1988; Baltimore Orioles 1989–1991; Kansas City Royals 1992; Boston Red Sox 1993; Chicago White Sox 1994; New York Yankees 1994
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 41 | 87 | 82 | 10 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .247 | .293 | .540 | 45.9 | 48.9 | .244 | 0.1 |
| 1986 | 89 | 289 | 268 | 24 | 60 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 15 | 69 | 3 | 2 | .224 | .262 | .347 | .609 | 67.1 | 71.0 | .277 | 0.6 |
| 1987 | 84 | 265 | 246 | 31 | 49 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 31 | 17 | 44 | 0 | 4 | .199 | .249 | .366 | .615 | 58.7 | 64.5 | .269 | 0.2 |
| 1988 | 92 | 288 | 273 | 23 | 64 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 27 | 13 | 46 | 0 | 2 | .234 | .268 | .377 | .646 | 86.7 | 88.0 | .296 | 1.3 |
| 1989 | 85 | 301 | 278 | 22 | 67 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 15 | 53 | 1 | 4 | .241 | .279 | .295 | .574 | 59.7 | 64.3 | .264 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 93 | 318 | 301 | 30 | 73 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 37 | 11 | 53 | 0 | 1 | .243 | .267 | .346 | .612 | 67.0 | 72.4 | .277 | 0.4 |
| 1991 | 79 | 245 | 228 | 11 | 57 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 46 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .279 | .307 | .586 | 58.4 | 64.2 | .265 | 0.2 |
| 1992 | 32 | 77 | 70 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .314 | .351 | .386 | .736 | 105.6 | 105.2 | .339 | 0.5 |
| 1993 | 77 | 190 | 176 | 13 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 7 | 44 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .251 | .313 | .564 | 41.7 | 47.4 | .256 | -0.1 |
| 1994 | 20 | 35 | 33 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .235 | .303 | .538 | 37.6 | 39.2 | .240 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-06-15 | BAL @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1989-08-27 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1987-04-07 | SD @ SF Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1987-09-22 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1987-04-13 | SF @ SD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 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.