Bobby Avila
Cleveland Indians 1949–1958; Baltimore Orioles 1959; Boston Red Sox 1959; Milwaukee Braves 1959
Percentile snapshot
1957 season — qualified batters
of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 474 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 31 | 15 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .267 | .214 | .481 | 26.1 | 30.9 | .241 | -0.1 |
| 1950 | 80 | 239 | 201 | 39 | 60 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 29 | 17 | 5 | 0 | .299 | .390 | .383 | .773 | 107.0 | 103.9 | .368 | 1.1 |
| 1951 | 141 | 615 | 542 | 76 | 165 | 21 | 3 | 10 | 58 | 60 | 31 | 14 | 8 | .304 | .374 | .410 | .783 | 119.1 | 119.0 | .368 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 150 | 684 | 597 | 102 | 179 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 45 | 67 | 36 | 12 | 10 | .300 | .371 | .415 | .787 | 127.4 | 126.9 | .369 | 4.7 |
| 1953 | 141 | 633 | 559 | 85 | 160 | 22 | 3 | 8 | 55 | 58 | 27 | 10 | 8 | .286 | .355 | .379 | .735 | 103.8 | 103.1 | .345 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 143 | 638 | 555 | 112 | 189 | 27 | 2 | 15 | 67 | 59 | 31 | 9 | 7 | .341 | .402 | .477 | .880 | 146.2 | 142.6 | .405 | 5.9 |
| 1955 | 141 | 643 | 537 | 83 | 146 | 22 | 4 | 13 | 61 | 82 | 47 | 1 | 4 | .272 | .368 | .400 | .768 | 111.2 | 107.2 | .363 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 138 | 597 | 513 | 74 | 115 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 54 | 70 | 68 | 17 | 4 | .224 | .323 | .318 | .640 | 73.0 | 69.7 | .309 | 0.2 |
| 1957 | 129 | 528 | 463 | 60 | 124 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 48 | 46 | 47 | 2 | 4 | .268 | .334 | .354 | .688 | 91.5 | 90.0 | .321 | 1.4 |
| 1958 | 113 | 445 | 375 | 54 | 95 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 55 | 45 | 5 | 7 | .253 | .349 | .365 | .714 | 104.6 | 99.4 | .334 | 1.9 |
| 1959 | 93 | 306 | 264 | 37 | 60 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 34 | 47 | 3 | 0 | .227 | .314 | .322 | .636 | 81.3 | 77.1 | .299 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-06-20 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| 1955-08-12 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 1959-07-09 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 1954-06-26 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1952-06-06 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-04-19 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-20 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-21 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-22 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-23 | DET @ CLE 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.