MLB / Players

Bobby Doerr

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornApril 7, 1918 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1937

Final gameSeptember 7, 1951

Seasons14 (1937–1951)

Boston Red Sox 1937–1944; Boston Red Sox 1946–1951

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified batters

149

63.9

663

75.9

586

78.3

103

80.7

172

78.3

68.7

95.2

79.5

RBI

120

92.8

51.8

39.8

14.5

.294

61.4

OBP

.367

42.2

SLG

.519

81.9

OPS

.886

78.3

wRC+

112.8

OPS+

116.0

60.2

wOBA

.400

67.5

sWAR

3.4

68.7

of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.8

71.1

OPS+

116.6

sWAR

44.5

98.4

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
1937	55	170	147	22	33	5	1	2	14	18	25	2	4	.224	.313	.313	.626	57.5	56.9	.298	-0.3
1938	145	590	509	70	147	26	7	5	80	59	39	5	10	.289	.363	.397	.760	87.8	87.3	.354	1.2
1939	127	574	525	75	167	28	2	12	73	38	32	1	10	.318	.365	.448	.813	102.9	104.3	.370	2.2
1940	151	658	595	87	173	37	10	22	105	57	53	10	5	.291	.353	.497	.850	112.8	114.8	.377	3.4
1941	132	549	500	74	141	28	4	16	93	43	43	1	3	.282	.339	.450	.789	104.4	107.2	.359	2.3
1942	144	625	545	71	158	35	5	15	102	67	55	4	4	.290	.369	.455	.824	128.3	128.1	.386	4.4
1943	155	676	604	78	163	32	3	16	75	62	59	8	8	.270	.339	.412	.751	117.4	118.0	.356	3.9
1944	125	536	468	95	152	30	10	15	81	58	31	5	2	.325	.399	.528	.927	165.9	164.4	.429	6.2
1946	151	659	583	95	158	34	9	18	116	66	67	5	6	.271	.346	.453	.799	116.9	116.8	.369	3.8
1947	146	624	561	79	145	23	10	17	95	59	47	3	3	.258	.329	.426	.755	100.9	103.6	.352	2.4
1948	140	618	527	94	150	23	6	27	111	83	49	3	2	.285	.386	.505	.891	130.9	132.0	.412	4.6
1949	139	623	541	91	167	30	9	18	109	75	33	2	2	.309	.393	.497	.890	127.5	128.2	.415	4.4
1950	149	663	586	103	172	29	11	27	120	67	42	3	4	.294	.367	.519	.886	112.8	116.0	.400	3.4
1951	106	463	402	60	116	21	2	13	73	57	33	2	1	.289	.378	.448	.826	114.7	113.5	.385	2.5

Career totals

1,865

356th-most career G

8,028

292nd-most career PA

7,093

290th-most career AB

1,094

274th-most career R

2,042

274th-most career H

381

247th-most career 2B

220th-most career 3B

223

317th-most career HR

RBI

1,247

138th-most career RBI

809

264th-most career BB

608

.2879

461st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3617

438th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4610

381st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8227

327th-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
1950-06-08	BAL @ BOS Gameday	6	4	4	0	3	8	1	13
1950-06-13	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	3	1	12
1940-07-28	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	4	1	11
1941-08-14	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	4	0	10
1951-04-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	7	2	4	0	2	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-04-20	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-24	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-25	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-26	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-30	ATH @ BOS 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

Hall of Fame, 1986 (Veterans)

9× 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.