Bobby Knoop
Los Angeles Angels 1964; California Angels 1965–1969; Chicago White Sox 1969–1970; Kansas City Royals 1971–1972
Percentile snapshot
1968 season — qualified batters
of 89 qualified 1968 batters (min 502 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 162 | 547 | 486 | 42 | 105 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 38 | 46 | 109 | 3 | 2 | .216 | .289 | .280 | .569 | 63.4 | 65.4 | .263 | -0.3 |
| 1965 | 142 | 504 | 465 | 47 | 125 | 24 | 4 | 7 | 43 | 31 | 101 | 3 | 2 | .269 | .313 | .383 | .696 | 100.2 | 102.3 | .314 | 2.0 |
| 1966 | 161 | 650 | 590 | 54 | 137 | 18 | 11 | 17 | 72 | 43 | 144 | 1 | 5 | .232 | .282 | .386 | .669 | 88.4 | 93.1 | .296 | 1.6 |
| 1967 | 159 | 564 | 511 | 51 | 125 | 18 | 5 | 9 | 38 | 44 | 136 | 2 | 2 | .245 | .305 | .352 | .657 | 91.1 | 96.9 | .297 | 1.6 |
| 1968 | 152 | 536 | 494 | 48 | 123 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 39 | 35 | 128 | 3 | 2 | .249 | .301 | .324 | .625 | 90.1 | 92.6 | .291 | 1.5 |
| 1969 | 131 | 473 | 416 | 39 | 93 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 47 | 48 | 84 | 3 | 3 | .224 | .304 | .315 | .619 | 69.5 | 70.6 | .293 | 0.1 |
| 1970 | 130 | 443 | 402 | 34 | 92 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 36 | 34 | 79 | 0 | 1 | .229 | .290 | .308 | .598 | 57.7 | 62.1 | .277 | -0.6 |
| 1971 | 72 | 180 | 161 | 14 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 36 | 1 | 0 | .205 | .270 | .286 | .555 | 55.3 | 59.2 | .263 | -0.3 |
| 1972 | 44 | 107 | 97 | 8 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .237 | .299 | .289 | .588 | 71.0 | 74.0 | .281 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-09-02 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 1964-09-20 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1966-05-11 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1969-05-30 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1966-05-30 | CLE @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
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.