MLB / Players

Boog Powell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 230 lb

BornAugust 17, 1941 · Lakeland, FL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1961

Final gameAugust 24, 1977

Seasons17 (1961–1977)

Baltimore Orioles 1961–1974; Cleveland Indians 1975–1976; Los Angeles Dodgers 1977

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified batters

134

18.1

502

0.8

435

2.4

30.7

129

22.8

23.6

92.1

RBI

77.2

59.1

40.2

9.4

65.4

.297

75.6

OBP

.377

83.5

SLG

.524

96.9

OPS

.901

96.1

wRC+

152.6

95.3

OPS+

153.3

95.3

wOBA

.405

93.7

sWAR

3.8

71.7

of 128 qualified 1975 batters (min 492 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

135.3

93.9

OPS+

135.3

93.5

sWAR

43.0

98.2

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
1961	4	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-74.2	-57.6	.070	-0.3
1962	124	441	400	44	97	13	2	15	53	38	79	1	1	.243	.311	.398	.708	93.3	96.0	.316	0.5
1963	140	548	491	67	130	22	2	25	82	49	87	1	2	.265	.328	.470	.799	123.6	126.5	.349	2.5
1964	134	506	424	74	123	17	0	39	99	76	91	0	0	.290	.399	.606	1.005	180.9	178.0	.435	5.9
1965	144	556	472	54	117	20	2	17	72	71	93	1	1	.248	.347	.407	.754	112.4	113.7	.339	1.6
1966	140	565	491	78	141	18	0	34	109	67	125	0	4	.287	.372	.532	.903	160.7	159.4	.396	4.8
1967	125	477	415	53	97	14	1	13	55	55	94	1	3	.234	.324	.366	.690	106.8	105.4	.320	0.9
1968	154	634	550	60	137	21	1	22	85	73	97	7	1	.249	.338	.411	.748	128.7	127.8	.343	2.7
1969	152	615	533	83	162	25	0	37	121	72	76	1	1	.304	.383	.559	.942	161.4	163.1	.418	5.3
1970	154	643	526	82	156	28	0	35	114	104	80	1	1	.297	.412	.549	.962	163.7	165.1	.423	5.8
1971	128	509	418	59	107	19	0	22	92	82	64	1	0	.256	.379	.459	.839	142.7	141.1	.382	3.2
1972	140	539	465	53	117	20	1	21	81	65	92	4	0	.252	.346	.434	.780	130.6	131.0	.356	2.4
1973	114	464	370	52	98	13	1	11	54	85	64	0	2	.265	.398	.395	.792	130.7	127.1	.369	2.3
1974	110	402	344	37	91	13	1	12	45	52	58	0	1	.265	.358	.413	.771	124.8	127.0	.352	1.6
1975	134	502	435	64	129	18	0	27	86	59	72	1	3	.297	.377	.524	.901	152.6	153.3	.405	3.8
1976	95	343	293	29	63	9	0	9	33	41	43	1	1	.215	.305	.338	.643	88.9	89.6	.304	-0.1
1977	50	53	41	0	10	0	0	0	5	12	9	0	0	.244	.415	.244	.659	100.4	84.6	.335	0.1

Career totals

2,042

226th-most career G

7,810

324th-most career PA

6,681

363rd-most career AB

889

497th-most career R

1,776

426th-most career H

270

339

113th-most career HR

RBI

1,187

166th-most career RBI

1,001

126th-most career BB

1,226

219th-most career SO

.2658

OBP

.3605

460th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4618

369th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8223

331st-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1966-08-15	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	4	0	13
1963-08-10	BAL @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	3	1	12
1964-06-27	BAL @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	3	0	12
1969-07-01	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	7	0	10
1966-07-06	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	7	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× Most Valuable Player4× 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.