MLB / Players

Bobby Thigpen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornJuly 17, 1963 · Tallahassee, FL, USA

MLB debutAugust 6, 1986

Final gameApril 27, 1994

Seasons9 (1986–1994)

Chicago White Sox 1986–1993; Philadelphia Phillies 1993; Seattle Mariners 1994

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

9.7

86.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	20	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1987	51	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1988	68	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1989	61	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1990	77	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1991	67	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1992	55	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1993	42	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.7	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1994	7	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	20	2	0	7	26	7	12	20	1	35.7	1.77	1.065	5.05	3.13	73.2	242.1	1.4
1987	51	7	5	16	86	27	24	52	10	89.0	2.73	1.236	5.26	4.08	89.6	166.7	2.6
1988	68	5	8	34	96	33	33	62	6	90.0	3.30	1.433	6.20	3.54	89.3	120.2	1.6
1989	61	2	6	34	62	33	40	47	10	79.0	3.76	1.291	5.35	4.86	127.5	101.5	0.8
1990	77	4	6	57	60	18	32	70	5	88.7	1.83	1.038	7.11	3.08	79.9	211.0	3.0
1991	67	7	5	30	63	27	38	47	10	69.7	3.49	1.450	6.07	5.24	129.3	116.1	1.1
1992	55	1	3	22	58	29	33	45	4	55.0	4.75	1.655	7.36	4.06	104.7	81.8	0.0
1993	42	3	1	1	74	35	21	29	7	54.0	5.83	1.759	4.83	5.10	123.3	70.9	-0.5
1994	7	0	2	0	12	8	5	4	3	7.7	9.39	2.217	4.70	9.20	189.8	51.6	-0.3

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

448

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

448

201

55th-most career SV

SHO

569

SO (P)

376

BB allowed

238

ERA

3.434

WHIP

1.3628

K/9

5.95

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
1987-04-20	MIL @ CWS Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1987-04-29	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1993-08-13	NYM @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1993-08-14	NYM @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1993-08-18	PHI @ COL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-10-04	ATH @ CWS Gameday	2.0	2	0	0	0	4	0
1990-06-20	LAA @ CWS Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	1	4	0
1992-05-23	TOR @ CWS Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	4	0
1992-06-19	DET @ CWS Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	1	4	0
1993-07-19	TOR @ CWS Gameday	3.2	2	1	1	1	3	1

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× 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.