MLB / Players

Buck Martinez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 7, 1948 · Redding, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 18, 1969

Final gameOctober 3, 1986

Seasons17 (1969–1986)

Kansas City Royals 1969–1971; Kansas City Royals 1973–1977; Milwaukee Brewers 1978–1980; Toronto Blue Jays 1981–1986

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

wRC+

71.4

OPS+

73.1

4.2

sWAR

8.8

85.5

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
1969	72	214	205	14	47	6	1	4	23	8	25	0	0	.229	.258	.327	.585	54.4	62.6	.267	0.0
1970	6	11	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.111	.273	.111	.384	22.3	10.4	.220	0.0
1971	22	53	46	3	7	2	0	0	1	5	9	0	1	.152	.231	.196	.426	19.7	23.3	.213	-0.1
1973	14	37	32	2	8	1	0	1	6	4	5	0	0	.250	.333	.375	.708	99.0	95.3	.334	0.2
1974	43	123	107	10	23	3	1	1	8	14	19	0	1	.215	.317	.290	.607	78.2	72.3	.298	0.5
1975	80	255	226	15	51	9	2	3	23	21	28	1	0	.226	.293	.323	.616	74.0	73.2	.292	0.8
1976	95	295	267	24	61	13	3	5	34	16	45	0	0	.228	.269	.356	.625	78.4	83.0	.290	1.2
1977	29	85	80	3	18	4	0	1	9	3	12	0	1	.225	.253	.313	.566	50.3	54.0	.256	0.0
1978	89	286	256	26	56	10	1	1	20	14	42	1	1	.219	.255	.277	.533	44.1	50.5	.247	-0.1
1979	69	214	196	17	53	8	0	4	26	8	25	0	1	.270	.296	.372	.669	78.6	80.4	.301	0.7
1980	76	238	219	16	49	9	0	3	17	12	33	1	0	.224	.266	.306	.572	57.8	59.2	.265	0.3
1981	45	146	128	13	29	8	1	4	21	11	16	1	0	.227	.287	.398	.685	89.8	92.1	.313	0.7
1982	96	291	260	26	63	17	0	10	37	24	34	1	1	.242	.301	.423	.724	87.6	90.4	.320	1.4
1983	88	253	221	27	56	14	0	10	33	29	39	0	1	.253	.337	.452	.790	113.8	111.3	.354	2.0
1984	102	273	232	24	51	13	1	5	37	29	49	0	3	.220	.301	.349	.651	78.3	78.4	.298	1.1
1985	42	113	99	11	16	3	0	4	14	10	12	0	0	.162	.239	.313	.552	46.8	49.4	.250	0.0
1986	81	185	160	13	29	8	0	2	12	20	25	0	0	.181	.271	.269	.539	49.5	47.5	.255	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1.0	9.00	2.000	0.00	5.77	137.3	46.7	0.7

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,049

3,072

2,743

245

618

128

RBI

321

230

419

.2253

OBP

.2838

SLG

.3427

OPS

.6265

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

9.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

0.00

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	TB
1984-06-23	TOR @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	9
1983-06-14	ATH @ TOR Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	3	8
1969-07-27	KC @ DET Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	3	6
1979-09-19	MIL @ SEA Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	6
1984-08-03	TOR @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1979-08-29	MIL @ KC Gameday	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0

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.