Bobby Valentine
Los Angeles Dodgers 1969; Los Angeles Dodgers 1971–1972; California Angels 1973–1975; San Diego Padres 1975–1976; New York Mets 1977; San Diego Padres 1977; New York Mets 1978; Seattle Mariners 1979
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1971 | 101 | 307 | 281 | 32 | 70 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 3 | .249 | .287 | .310 | .597 | 73.0 | 74.7 | .280 | 0.3 |
| 1972 | 119 | 434 | 391 | 42 | 107 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 27 | 33 | 5 | 5 | .274 | .319 | .335 | .654 | 89.4 | 89.7 | .306 | 1.1 |
| 1973 | 32 | 136 | 126 | 12 | 38 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | .302 | .323 | .397 | .720 | 107.0 | 109.3 | .329 | 0.7 |
| 1974 | 117 | 414 | 371 | 39 | 97 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 39 | 25 | 25 | 8 | 5 | .261 | .308 | .329 | .637 | 88.1 | 88.3 | .299 | 0.7 |
| 1975 | 33 | 86 | 72 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | .250 | .321 | .319 | .641 | 87.9 | 86.5 | .305 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 15 | 57 | 49 | 3 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .367 | .436 | .449 | .885 | 169.4 | 160.3 | .420 | 0.6 |
| 1977 | 86 | 165 | 150 | 13 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .153 | .220 | .220 | .440 | 19.5 | 22.7 | .208 | -1.1 |
| 1978 | 69 | 188 | 160 | 17 | 43 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .269 | .346 | .331 | .677 | 98.2 | 93.6 | .323 | 0.7 |
| 1979 | 62 | 122 | 98 | 9 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 2 | .276 | .405 | .337 | .742 | 110.5 | 101.0 | .354 | 0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-06-13 | LAD @ WSH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1971-06-30 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1973-04-18 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1974-05-05 | BAL @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1973-04-08 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
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.