Bobby Bonds

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 15, 1946 · Riverside, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 25, 1968

Final gameOctober 4, 1981

Seasons14 (1968–1981)

San Francisco Giants 1968–1974; New York Yankees 1975; California Angels 1976–1977; Chicago White Sox 1978; Texas Rangers 1978; Cleveland Indians 1979; St. Louis Cardinals 1980; Chicago Cubs 1981

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

146

38.1

631

61.9

538

48.2

79.9

148

45.3

36.7

79.9

RBI

73.4

135

0.7

89.2

0.7

.275

42.4

OBP

.367

74.1

SLG

.463

72.7

OPS

.830

71.9

wRC+

123.4

70.5

OPS+

122.0

69.1

wOBA

.371

71.9

sWAR

3.1

61.2

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.6

91.1

OPS+

129.3

sWAR

48.8

98.8

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
1968	81	349	307	55	78	10	5	9	35	38	84	16	7	.254	.336	.407	.743	132.0	123.8	.351	2.2
1969	158	720	622	120	161	25	6	32	90	81	187	45	4	.259	.351	.473	.824	134.4	131.5	.377	5.1
1970	157	745	663	134	200	36	10	26	78	77	189	48	10	.302	.375	.504	.879	136.5	135.1	.394	5.2
1971	155	691	619	110	178	32	4	33	102	62	137	26	8	.288	.355	.512	.867	146.9	144.8	.390	5.6
1972	153	697	626	118	162	29	5	26	80	60	137	44	6	.259	.326	.446	.772	118.1	116.6	.352	3.1
1973	160	738	643	131	182	34	4	39	96	87	148	43	17	.283	.370	.530	.900	145.2	142.9	.403	5.7
1974	150	670	567	97	145	22	8	21	71	95	134	41	11	.256	.364	.434	.798	122.3	118.9	.373	3.3
1975	145	626	529	93	143	26	3	32	85	89	137	30	17	.270	.375	.512	.888	151.4	152.3	.400	5.4
1976	99	427	378	48	100	10	3	10	54	41	90	30	15	.265	.337	.386	.723	116.1	117.8	.336	1.7
1977	158	679	592	103	156	23	9	37	115	74	141	41	18	.264	.342	.520	.862	133.8	136.2	.375	4.2
1978	156	657	565	93	151	19	4	31	90	79	120	43	22	.267	.355	.480	.834	133.5	134.0	.374	4.0
1979	146	631	538	93	148	24	1	25	85	74	135	34	23	.275	.367	.463	.830	123.4	122.0	.371	3.1
1980	86	270	231	37	47	5	3	5	24	33	74	15	5	.203	.305	.316	.621	72.6	71.8	.294	-0.4
1981	45	190	163	26	35	7	1	6	19	24	44	5	6	.215	.323	.380	.703	92.8	95.1	.324	0.5

Career totals

1,849

369th-most career G

8,090

281st-most career PA

7,043

301st-most career AB

1,258

149th-most career R

1,886

356th-most career H

302

481st-most career 2B

450th-most career 3B

332

121st-most career HR

RBI

1,024

281st-most career RBI

914

175th-most career BB

1,757

32nd-most career SO

461

51st-most career SB

.2678

OBP

.3534

SLG

.4708

288th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8242

316th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1970-07-29	SF @ NYM Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	3	0	10
1972-07-14	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	2	1	9
1978-06-23	LAA @ TEX Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	6	0	9
1969-07-17	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	5	0	9
1973-05-08	STL @ SF Gameday	3	3	3	0	2	5	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

3× Gold Glove1× All-Star Game MVP3× 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.