MLB / Players

Bucky Harris

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 156 lb

BornNovember 8, 1896 · Port Jervis, NY, USA

MLB debutAugust 28, 1919

Final gameJune 12, 1931

Seasons12 (1919–1931)

Washington Senators 1919–1928; Detroit Tigers 1929; Detroit Tigers 1931

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

128

56.8

576

69.2

475

62.7

89.3

127

52.1

17.8

11.8

RBI

53.3

92.3

16.6

84.6

21.9

.267

21.3

OBP

.363

48.5

SLG

.328

12.4

OPS

.691

21.9

wRC+

86.5

23.7

OPS+

81.6

20.1

wOBA

.337

27.8

sWAR

1.1

35.5

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.7

21.8

OPS+

86.8

18.2

sWAR

12.1

88.9

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
1919	8	31	28	0	6	2	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	.214	.267	.286	.552	51.9	56.5	.267	-0.1
1920	136	592	506	76	152	26	6	1	68	41	36	16	17	.300	.377	.381	.758	106.1	103.5	.362	2.6
1921	154	683	584	82	169	22	8	0	54	54	39	29	9	.289	.367	.354	.722	91.9	88.6	.345	1.7
1922	154	685	602	95	162	24	8	2	40	52	38	25	11	.269	.341	.346	.687	85.0	83.6	.327	1.2
1923	145	620	532	60	150	21	13	2	70	50	29	23	16	.282	.358	.382	.740	100.7	100.0	.353	2.3
1924	143	653	544	88	146	28	9	1	58	56	41	20	10	.268	.344	.358	.703	85.3	84.5	.338	1.1
1925	144	665	551	91	158	30	3	1	66	64	21	14	12	.287	.370	.358	.728	91.6	88.2	.350	1.6
1926	141	631	537	94	152	39	9	1	63	58	41	16	11	.283	.363	.395	.757	101.2	100.4	.359	2.3
1927	128	576	475	98	127	20	3	1	55	66	33	18	3	.267	.363	.328	.691	86.5	81.6	.337	1.1
1928	99	397	358	34	73	11	5	0	28	27	26	5	2	.204	.264	.263	.526	37.7	39.3	.252	-1.7
1929	7	14	11	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	.091	.231	.091	.322	-6.3	-14.7	.187	-0.1
1931	4	9	8	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.125	.222	.250	.472	21.9	22.2	.229	-0.1

Career totals

1,263

5,556

4,736

722

1,297

224

478th-most career 3B

RBI

506

472

310

167

487th-most career SB

.2739

OBP

.3520

SLG

.3539

OPS

.7059

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
1927-07-24	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	0	1	1	8
1927-05-30	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	5	0	7
1924-07-10	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	2	1	7
1921-06-04	CWS @ MIN Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	0	4	2	7
1920-06-01	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1919-04-23	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-24	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-27	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-28	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-29	BOS @ MIN 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1975 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.