MLB / Players

Bruce Bochte

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 12, 1950 · Pasadena, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 19, 1974

Final gameOctober 5, 1986

Seasons12 (1974–1986)

California Angels 1974–1977; Cleveland Indians 1977; Seattle Mariners 1978–1982; Oakland Athletics 1984–1986

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

148

47.1

533

15.1

469

5.9

15.1

124

13.4

31.9

19.3

RBI

21.8

55.5

76.5

14.3

46.2

.264

30.3

OBP

.333

43.7

SLG

.345

13.4

OPS

.678

15.1

wRC+

94.8

21.8

OPS+

93.6

20.2

wOBA

.312

18.5

sWAR

0.2

5.9

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.7

69.2

OPS+

112.0

66.3

sWAR

18.8

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
1974	57	221	196	24	53	4	1	5	26	18	23	6	3	.270	.332	.378	.709	111.4	109.3	.332	0.7
1975	107	428	375	41	107	19	3	3	48	45	43	3	4	.285	.362	.376	.738	117.0	115.7	.345	1.4
1976	146	543	466	53	120	17	1	2	49	64	53	4	5	.258	.346	.311	.658	99.7	99.4	.313	0.8
1977	137	552	492	64	148	23	1	7	51	47	42	6	4	.301	.358	.394	.753	110.4	108.8	.342	1.9
1978	140	560	486	58	128	25	3	11	51	60	47	3	4	.263	.342	.395	.737	108.3	106.7	.339	1.6
1979	150	636	554	81	175	38	6	16	100	67	64	2	2	.316	.385	.493	.878	132.5	133.0	.388	3.5
1980	148	603	520	62	156	34	4	13	78	72	81	2	3	.300	.381	.456	.836	126.3	127.1	.373	2.7
1981	99	385	335	39	87	16	0	6	30	47	53	1	3	.260	.354	.361	.715	106.8	103.4	.336	0.8
1982	144	586	509	58	151	21	0	12	70	67	71	8	5	.297	.380	.409	.788	118.2	114.4	.359	2.4
1984	148	533	469	58	124	23	0	5	52	52	59	2	5	.264	.333	.345	.678	94.8	93.6	.312	0.2
1985	137	474	424	48	125	17	1	14	60	49	58	3	1	.295	.367	.439	.806	126.8	126.7	.359	2.1
1986	125	473	407	57	104	13	1	6	43	65	68	3	2	.256	.357	.337	.694	102.0	96.8	.324	0.8

Career totals

1,538

5,994

5,233

643

1,478

250

100

RBI

658

653

443rd-most career BB

662

.2824

OBP

.3603

466th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3956

OPS

.7559

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	TB
1979-05-22	SEA @ KC Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	1	6	9
1974-08-31	LAA @ MIL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1975-09-15	LAA @ MIN Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	0	2	8
1980-07-06	SEA @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	1	8
1975-08-15	DET @ LAA Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	3	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.

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.