Bubba Phillips
Detroit Tigers 1955; Chicago White Sox 1956–1959; Cleveland Indians 1960–1962; Detroit Tigers 1963–1964
Percentile snapshot
1963 season — qualified batters
of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 95 | 205 | 184 | 18 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 20 | 2 | 1 | .234 | .289 | .304 | .594 | 58.1 | 62.2 | .279 | -0.7 |
| 1956 | 67 | 107 | 99 | 16 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 2 | .273 | .321 | .394 | .715 | 88.3 | 89.4 | .330 | 0.1 |
| 1957 | 121 | 431 | 393 | 38 | 106 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 42 | 28 | 32 | 5 | 3 | .270 | .322 | .372 | .693 | 88.9 | 90.4 | .318 | 1.0 |
| 1958 | 84 | 286 | 260 | 26 | 71 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 30 | 15 | 14 | 3 | 0 | .273 | .310 | .369 | .679 | 84.4 | 89.8 | .303 | 0.4 |
| 1959 | 117 | 415 | 379 | 43 | 100 | 27 | 1 | 5 | 40 | 27 | 28 | 1 | 1 | .264 | .319 | .380 | .699 | 89.9 | 94.1 | .313 | 1.0 |
| 1960 | 113 | 330 | 304 | 34 | 63 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 33 | 14 | 37 | 1 | 0 | .207 | .249 | .299 | .549 | 42.0 | 50.0 | .248 | -1.2 |
| 1961 | 143 | 590 | 546 | 64 | 144 | 23 | 1 | 18 | 72 | 29 | 61 | 1 | 0 | .264 | .305 | .408 | .714 | 87.6 | 91.6 | .317 | 1.3 |
| 1962 | 148 | 599 | 562 | 53 | 145 | 26 | 0 | 10 | 54 | 20 | 55 | 4 | 0 | .258 | .289 | .358 | .647 | 72.4 | 75.4 | .291 | 0.2 |
| 1963 | 128 | 502 | 464 | 42 | 114 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 45 | 19 | 42 | 6 | 2 | .246 | .276 | .310 | .586 | 56.7 | 62.2 | .265 | -0.7 |
| 1964 | 46 | 99 | 87 | 14 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 2 | .253 | .327 | .368 | .694 | 88.7 | 92.2 | .310 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-07-02 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 1957-05-16 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 1960-05-01 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1957-05-26 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1963-06-23 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.