MLB / Players

Buck Rodgers

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 16, 1938 · Delaware, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1961

Final gameOctober 1, 1969

Seasons9 (1961–1969)

Los Angeles Angels 1961–1964; California Angels 1965–1969

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

148

35.1

572

24.5

514

30.9

125

25.5

23.4

7.4

RBI

28.7

62.8

41.5

43.6

.243

11.7

OBP

.299

10.6

SLG

.313

4.3

OPS

.612

5.3

wRC+

71.1

6.4

OPS+

77.4

9.6

wOBA

.274

3.2

sWAR

1.3

24.5

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

67.8

2.6

OPS+

72.4

3.8

sWAR

6.4

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	16	57	56	8	18	2	0	2	13	1	6	0	0	.321	.333	.464	.798	105.2	106.2	.355	0.3
1962	155	624	565	65	146	34	6	6	61	45	68	1	8	.258	.309	.372	.681	77.3	81.4	.304	1.6
1963	100	340	300	24	70	6	0	4	23	29	35	2	2	.233	.303	.293	.597	73.8	73.3	.278	0.8
1964	148	572	514	38	125	18	3	4	54	40	71	4	3	.243	.299	.313	.612	71.1	77.4	.274	1.3
1965	132	461	411	33	86	14	3	1	32	35	61	4	5	.209	.271	.265	.537	50.4	57.5	.245	0.0
1966	133	491	454	45	107	20	3	7	48	29	57	3	4	.236	.281	.339	.620	73.6	80.1	.275	1.4
1967	139	475	429	29	94	13	3	6	41	34	55	1	4	.219	.277	.305	.583	70.9	74.9	.269	1.2
1968	91	281	258	13	49	6	0	1	14	16	48	2	1	.190	.244	.225	.469	36.2	45.1	.222	-0.2
1969	18	52	46	4	9	1	0	0	2	5	8	0	0	.196	.288	.217	.506	45.1	46.9	.246	0.0

Career totals

932

3,353

3,033

259

704

114

RBI

288

234

409

.2321

OBP

.2876

SLG

.3122

OPS

.5998

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
1966-05-04	ATH @ LAA Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	5	0	7
1966-05-09	TEX @ LAA Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	3	0	7
1962-05-06	BAL @ LAA Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	0	3	0	6
1966-08-27	ATH @ LAA Gameday	5	0	4	2	0	0	3	1	6
1967-07-02	NYY @ LAA Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-27	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-19	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-20	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-21	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	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.