MLB / Players

Bobby Bolin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 185 lb

BornJanuary 29, 1939 · Hickory Grove, SC, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1961

Final gameSeptember 30, 1973

Seasons13 (1961–1973)

San Francisco Giants 1961–1969; Boston Red Sox 1970; Milwaukee Brewers 1970; Boston Red Sox 1971–1973

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified pitchers

26.7

98.7

17.3

SHO

46.7

128

100

97.3

86.7

126

29.3

85.3

176.7

6.7

ERA

1.99

WHIP

.985

90.7

K/9

6.42

FIP

2.63

66.7

FIP-

88.8

66.7

ERA+

149.2

sWAR

4.0

of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.3

50.6

sWAR

19.5

93.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1961	37	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	53.2	55.9	.260	0.9
1962	41	24	23	3	6	2	0	0	4	1	9	0	.261	.292	.348	.639	72.0	73.1	.292	1.4
1963	47	44	35	5	5	0	0	1	3	5	17	0	.143	.250	.229	.479	43.8	40.4	.237	1.5
1964	39	61	50	2	5	1	0	0	3	6	21	0	.100	.211	.120	.331	-1.0	-4.1	.178	2.4
1965	45	57	54	5	9	0	0	1	7	1	16	1	.167	.196	.222	.419	9.9	17.5	.195	3.3
1966	36	83	76	7	13	1	1	2	7	6	25	0	.171	.232	.289	.521	41.2	43.5	.241	4.6
1967	37	36	33	4	8	2	0	0	1	1	12	0	.242	.265	.303	.568	62.3	64.3	.265	-1.0
1968	34	61	55	4	5	1	0	0	1	5	26	0	.091	.167	.109	.276	-23.5	-15.3	.148	4.0
1969	30	49	39	6	6	2	0	1	5	8	18	0	.154	.298	.282	.580	73.8	65.1	.290	0.2
1970	38	46	37	3	7	0	0	1	2	2	17	0	.189	.250	.270	.520	40.2	43.6	.247	0.1
1971	52	12	12	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	26.8	38.6	.233	0.2
1972	21	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-146.4	-100.0	.000	0.4
1973	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1961	37	1	2	2	5	0	0	37	17	37	48	6	48.0	3.19	1.542	9.00	4.79	123.6	121.6	0.9
1962	41	5	7	3	5	2	0	84	37	35	74	10	92.0	3.62	1.293	7.24	3.83	99.1	106.8	1.4
1963	47	12	10	6	7	2	0	128	50	57	134	13	137.3	3.28	1.347	8.78	3.18	98.1	98.8	1.5
1964	38	23	6	9	1	5	3	143	63	77	146	16	174.7	3.25	1.260	7.52	3.76	105.7	109.7	2.4
1965	45	13	14	6	2	2	0	125	50	56	135	17	163.0	2.76	1.110	7.45	3.44	96.2	129.4	3.3
1966	36	34	11	10	1	10	4	174	72	70	143	25	224.3	2.89	1.088	5.74	3.92	107.4	126.2	4.6
1967	37	15	6	8	0	0	0	120	65	50	69	16	120.0	4.88	1.417	5.18	4.57	138.0	67.9	-1.0
1968	34	19	10	5	0	6	3	128	39	46	126	9	176.7	1.99	.985	6.42	2.63	88.8	149.2	4.0
1969	30	22	7	7	0	2	0	149	72	49	102	17	146.3	4.43	1.353	6.27	3.92	110.8	79.9	0.2
1970	38	20	7	11	3	3	0	133	72	72	89	20	140.0	4.63	1.464	5.72	4.66	124.3	81.2	0.1
1971	52	0	5	3	6	0	0	74	33	24	51	7	69.7	4.26	1.407	6.59	3.23	88.2	86.0	0.2
1972	21	0	0	1	5	0	0	24	10	11	27	3	30.7	2.93	1.141	7.92	2.95	91.9	109.6	0.4
1973	39	0	3	4	15	0	0	45	16	13	31	5	53.3	2.70	1.088	5.23	3.42	85.5	148.4	1.3

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

496

482

423

RBI

166

.1631

OBP

.2321

SLG

.2317

OPS

.4638

Pitching

G (P)

495

457th-most career G (P)

164

373rd-most career SV

SHO

1,576

SO (P)

1,175

408th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

597

ERA

3.404

373rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2443

314th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.71

248th-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1963-09-13	SF @ PIT Gameday	2	1	2	1	2	0	5
1970-05-11	NYY @ MIL Gameday	2	2	2	1	1	0	5
1965-09-03	SF @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	1	2	0	4
1966-08-14	HOU @ SF Gameday	3	1	1	1	2	0	4
1969-06-26	SF @ CIN Gameday	3	1	1	1	2	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1963-06-12	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	0	14
1963-09-05	HOU @ SF Gameday	9.2	6	4	1	6	13
1964-10-02	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	13
1964-07-11	SF @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	3	12
1964-08-22	STL @ SF Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	3	11

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.