Bobby Tolan

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 19, 1945 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1965

Final gameSeptember 19, 1979

Seasons13 (1965–1979)

St. Louis Cardinals 1965–1968; Cincinnati Reds 1969–1970; Cincinnati Reds 1972–1973; San Diego Padres 1974–1975; Philadelphia Phillies 1976–1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1977; San Diego Padres 1979

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified batters

147

52.8

560

33.9

506

18.1

129

22.8

29.1

54.3

19.7

RBI

13.4

6.3

84.3

61.4

7.9

.255

26.8

OBP

.306

17.3

SLG

.338

16.5

OPS

.644

14.2

wRC+

81.8

16.5

OPS+

82.7

15.7

wOBA

.304

sWAR

-0.2

3.1

of 128 qualified 1975 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.4

32.6

OPS+

95.9

33.5

sWAR

9.9

86.8

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	17	71	69	8	13	2	0	0	6	0	4	2	1	.188	.197	.217	.415	2.3	14.3	.189	-0.7
1966	43	103	93	10	16	5	1	1	6	6	15	1	2	.172	.233	.280	.513	30.9	41.3	.227	-0.7
1967	110	294	265	35	67	7	3	6	32	19	43	12	7	.253	.309	.370	.679	99.5	96.6	.316	0.8
1968	92	296	278	28	64	12	1	5	17	13	42	9	5	.230	.272	.335	.607	80.6	84.2	.282	-0.1
1969	152	691	637	104	194	25	10	21	93	27	92	26	12	.305	.347	.474	.821	126.6	124.0	.374	4.4
1970	152	675	589	112	186	34	6	16	80	62	94	57	20	.316	.384	.475	.860	133.0	130.1	.390	5.2
1972	149	667	604	88	171	28	5	8	82	44	88	42	15	.283	.334	.386	.720	111.0	110.8	.332	3.4
1973	129	501	457	42	94	14	2	9	51	27	68	15	10	.206	.251	.304	.555	54.1	57.8	.257	-1.4
1974	95	394	357	45	95	16	1	8	40	20	41	7	9	.266	.320	.384	.703	97.7	99.3	.327	0.8
1975	147	560	506	58	129	19	4	5	43	28	45	11	13	.255	.306	.338	.644	81.8	82.7	.304	-0.2
1976	110	290	272	32	71	7	0	5	35	7	39	10	5	.261	.285	.342	.627	69.3	76.6	.287	-0.7
1977	64	97	90	8	17	4	0	2	10	5	14	1	1	.189	.229	.300	.529	34.8	40.5	.241	-0.7
1979	22	25	21	2	4	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	.190	.190	.286	.476	22.9	32.0	.214	-0.2

Career totals

1,282

4,664

4,238

572

1,121

173

RBI

497

258

587

193

394th-most career SB

.2645

OBP

.3139

SLG

.3823

OPS

.6962

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
1974-07-13	WSH @ SD Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1974-07-17	PHI @ SD Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1976-05-07	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
1969-05-09	CIN @ WSH Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	4	0	8
1969-08-05	NYM @ CIN Gameday	3	4	3	2	0	1	3	1	8

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.