MLB / Players

Bucky Dent

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 25, 1951 · Savannah, GA, USA

MLB debutJune 1, 1973

Final gameSeptember 11, 1984

Seasons12 (1973–1984)

Chicago White Sox 1973–1976; New York Yankees 1977–1982; Texas Rangers 1982–1983; Kansas City Royals 1984

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

141

25.8

553

23.4

489

16.9

9.7

128

13.7

14.5

19.4

RBI

23.4

40.3

91.9

67.7

.262

19.4

OBP

.327

SLG

.354

14.5

OPS

.681

19.4

wRC+

92.1

21.8

OPS+

89.8

20.2

wOBA

.316

21.8

sWAR

2.1

36.3

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

73.7

OPS+

74.7

5.2

sWAR

9.0

85.8

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
1973	40	132	117	17	29	2	0	0	10	10	18	2	3	.248	.308	.265	.573	61.6	61.0	.277	0.1
1974	154	552	496	55	136	15	3	5	45	28	48	3	4	.274	.316	.347	.662	89.5	89.0	.311	2.1
1975	157	662	602	52	159	29	4	3	58	36	48	2	4	.264	.301	.341	.642	76.8	80.1	.297	1.3
1976	158	626	562	44	138	18	4	2	52	43	45	3	5	.246	.300	.302	.603	75.9	76.7	.288	1.3
1977	158	540	477	54	118	18	4	8	49	39	28	1	1	.247	.300	.352	.653	79.4	79.9	.297	1.3
1978	123	415	379	40	92	11	1	5	40	23	24	3	1	.243	.286	.317	.603	69.9	72.7	.279	0.6
1979	141	490	431	47	99	14	2	2	32	37	30	0	0	.230	.287	.285	.573	58.5	58.1	.267	-0.1
1980	141	553	489	57	128	26	2	5	52	48	37	0	3	.262	.327	.354	.681	92.1	89.8	.316	2.1
1981	73	258	227	20	54	11	0	7	27	19	17	0	1	.238	.300	.379	.679	97.7	97.3	.315	1.2
1982	105	337	306	27	59	10	1	1	23	21	21	0	0	.193	.242	.242	.484	33.8	36.6	.227	-1.0
1983	131	450	417	36	99	15	2	2	34	23	31	3	7	.237	.278	.297	.575	59.6	60.5	.265	0.0
1984	11	10	9	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.333	.400	.333	.733	114.5	106.3	.348	0.1

Career totals

1,392

5,025

4,512

451

1,114

169

RBI

423

328

349

.2469

OBP

.2971

SLG

.3211

OPS

.6182

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
1977-06-08	NYY @ MIL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
1980-04-30	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	1	7
1980-09-03	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	0	5	6
1981-04-09	TEX @ NYY Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	3	6
1977-08-24	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	1	2	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.

Honors

1× World Series MVP3× 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.