Bob Oliver

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornFebruary 8, 1943 · Shreveport, LA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1965

Final gameJuly 3, 1975

Seasons8 (1965–1975)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1965; Kansas City Royals 1969–1971; California Angels 1972; Kansas City Royals 1972; California Angels 1973; Baltimore Orioles 1974; California Angels 1974; New York Yankees 1975

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

151

56.1

586

29.8

544

45.6

144

39.5

50.9

9.6

58.8

RBI

76.3

14.9

100

14.9

8.8

78.9

.265

36.8

OBP

.311

18.4

SLG

.412

51.8

OPS

.722

39.5

wRC+

104.6

41.2

OPS+

109.3

46.5

wOBA

.326

30.7

sWAR

1.8

32.5

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.1

31.8

OPS+

99.7

40.7

sWAR

4.2

77.2

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
1965	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1969	118	425	394	43	100	8	4	13	43	21	74	5	5	.254	.294	.393	.687	87.1	90.5	.314	0.4
1970	160	662	612	83	159	24	6	27	99	42	126	3	3	.260	.309	.451	.760	105.6	107.7	.340	1.7
1971	128	398	373	35	91	12	2	8	52	14	88	0	0	.244	.277	.351	.628	72.4	79.0	.287	-0.9
1972	150	609	572	54	154	22	5	20	76	29	109	5	3	.269	.305	.430	.735	118.7	122.6	.334	2.0
1973	151	586	544	51	144	24	1	18	89	33	100	1	1	.265	.311	.412	.722	104.6	109.3	.326	1.8
1974	119	402	379	23	92	11	1	8	59	16	56	3	2	.243	.271	.340	.612	74.3	79.9	.280	-0.3
1975	18	39	38	3	5	1	0	0	1	1	9	0	0	.132	.154	.158	.312	-20.4	-10.5	.149	-0.5

Career totals

847

3,123

2,914

293

745

102

RBI

419

156

562

.2557

OBP

.2954

SLG

.4005

OPS

.6959

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
1969-05-04	KC @ LAA Gameday	6	2	6	1	0	1	3	0	10
1970-04-20	KC @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1970-06-09	TEX @ KC Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1970-07-28	KC @ DET Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1971-09-29	KC @ ATH Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-05-11	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965-05-12	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965-05-13	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965-05-21	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965-05-23	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.