MLB / Players

Bobby Cox

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb
BornMay 21, 1941 · Tulsa, OK, USA
MLB debutApril 14, 1968
Final gameOctober 1, 1969
Seasons2 (1968–1969)

New York Yankees 1968–1969

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
1.5
67.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
196813549043733100151741418532.229.300.316.61687.590.1.2871.2
196985229191174171217344101.215.332.293.62578.580.6.2940.3

Career totals

G
220
PA
719
AB
628
R
50
H
141
2B
22
3B
2
HR
9
RBI
58
BB
75
SO
126
SB
3
BA
.2245
OBP
.3101
SLG
.3089
OPS
.6190

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1968-06-21NYY @ MIN Gameday423011418
1969-08-15NYY @ CWS Gameday413001106
1968-08-05BAL @ NYY Gameday412001105
1968-09-27NYY @ BOS Gameday312001115
1969-07-01BAL @ NYY Gameday312010214

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

Hall of Fame, 2014 (Veterans - Expansion Era)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.