Bobby Murcer

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornMay 20, 1946 · Oklahoma City, OK, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1965

Final gameJune 11, 1983

Seasons17 (1965–1983)

New York Yankees 1965–1966; New York Yankees 1969–1974; San Francisco Giants 1975–1976; Chicago Cubs 1977–1979; New York Yankees 1979–1983

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

132

7.9

525

10.1

454

5.8

23.7

121

7.9

8.6

50.4

RBI

22.3

65.5

74.8

21.6

56.8

.267

27.3

OBP

.354

60.4

SLG

.405

37.4

OPS

.760

43.9

wRC+

106.9

OPS+

104.1

39.6

wOBA

.348

49.6

sWAR

1.9

37.4

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.5

85.5

OPS+

124.4

sWAR

45.2

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
1965	11	42	37	2	9	0	1	1	4	5	12	0	0	.243	.333	.378	.712	109.3	103.8	.332	0.3
1966	21	73	69	3	12	1	1	0	5	4	5	2	2	.174	.219	.217	.437	24.2	28.4	.206	-0.3
1969	152	625	564	82	146	24	4	26	82	50	103	7	5	.259	.319	.454	.773	118.2	119.6	.351	3.0
1970	159	680	581	95	146	23	3	23	78	87	100	15	10	.251	.348	.420	.768	118.3	116.6	.352	4.1
1971	146	624	529	94	175	25	6	25	94	91	60	14	8	.331	.427	.543	.969	180.2	175.1	.437	8.4
1972	153	654	585	102	171	30	7	33	96	63	67	11	9	.292	.361	.537	.898	173.5	169.4	.407	8.3
1973	160	672	616	83	187	29	2	22	95	50	67	6	7	.304	.357	.464	.821	134.2	134.8	.372	5.4
1974	156	679	606	69	166	25	4	10	88	57	59	14	5	.274	.332	.378	.710	103.6	106.6	.325	2.2
1975	147	632	526	80	157	29	4	11	91	91	45	9	5	.298	.396	.432	.828	131.6	126.3	.388	3.8
1976	147	624	533	73	138	20	2	23	90	84	78	12	7	.259	.362	.433	.796	125.4	123.0	.369	3.2
1977	154	649	554	90	147	18	3	27	89	80	77	16	7	.265	.355	.455	.810	104.7	106.5	.359	1.7
1978	146	585	499	66	140	22	6	9	64	80	57	14	5	.281	.376	.403	.779	109.4	108.1	.358	2.0
1979	132	525	454	64	121	16	1	15	55	61	52	3	4	.267	.354	.405	.760	106.9	104.1	.348	1.9
1980	100	345	297	41	80	9	1	13	57	34	28	2	0	.269	.339	.438	.777	113.4	114.8	.348	1.0
1981	50	130	117	14	31	6	0	6	24	12	15	0	0	.265	.331	.470	.801	130.9	131.7	.361	0.5
1982	65	156	141	12	32	6	0	7	30	12	15	2	1	.227	.288	.418	.707	88.7	93.9	.309	-0.3
1983	9	23	22	2	4	2	0	1	1	1	1	0	0	.182	.217	.409	.626	67.0	71.4	.274	-0.1

Career totals

1,908

323rd-most career G

7,718

336th-most career PA

6,730

354th-most career AB

972

392nd-most career R

1,862

370th-most career H

285

252

252nd-most career HR

RBI

1,043

270th-most career RBI

862

207th-most career BB

841

127

.2767

OBP

.3573

SLG

.4447

OPS

.8020

484th-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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1973-07-13	KC @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	5	0	12
1970-06-24	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	3	4	1	12
1972-08-29	TEX @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	1	1	10
1970-06-05	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	3	0	10
1979-09-29	TOR @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10

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

1× Gold Glove5× 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.