MLB / Players

Bud Harrelson

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornJune 6, 1944 · Niles, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1965

Final gameOctober 5, 1980

Seasons16 (1965–1980)

New York Mets 1965–1977; Philadelphia Phillies 1978–1979; Texas Rangers 1980

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified batters

115

0.9

490

6.3

418

0.9

30.6

0.9

60.4

2.7

RBI

1.8

68.5

46.8

.215

2.7

OBP

.313

27.9

SLG

.266

1.8

OPS

.578

7.2

wRC+

72.5

10.8

OPS+

69.0

8.1

wOBA

.282

sWAR

0.7

12.6

of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.4

11.7

OPS+

76.2

6.4

sWAR

13.6

90.2

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
1965	19	39	37	3	4	1	1	0	0	2	11	0	0	.108	.154	.189	.343	-10.8	-3.1	.162	-0.3
1966	33	113	99	20	22	2	4	0	4	13	23	7	3	.222	.313	.323	.636	80.9	78.2	.295	0.3
1967	151	603	540	59	137	16	4	1	28	48	64	12	13	.254	.317	.304	.621	84.8	80.1	.298	1.8
1968	111	437	402	38	88	7	3	0	14	29	68	4	5	.219	.273	.251	.524	56.7	58.8	.253	-0.1
1969	123	457	395	42	98	11	6	0	24	54	54	1	3	.248	.341	.306	.647	85.2	82.7	.309	1.4
1970	157	682	564	72	137	18	8	1	42	95	74	23	4	.243	.351	.309	.659	86.6	79.9	.318	1.9
1971	142	618	547	55	138	16	6	0	32	53	59	28	7	.252	.319	.303	.622	83.3	79.7	.299	1.6
1972	115	490	418	54	90	10	4	1	24	58	57	12	4	.215	.313	.266	.578	72.5	69.0	.282	0.7
1973	106	408	356	35	92	12	3	0	20	48	49	5	1	.258	.348	.309	.657	91.3	86.0	.316	1.5
1974	106	412	331	48	75	10	0	1	13	71	39	9	4	.227	.366	.266	.632	95.9	81.6	.325	1.7
1975	34	87	73	5	16	2	0	0	3	12	13	0	0	.219	.329	.247	.576	68.3	66.2	.283	0.1
1976	118	432	359	34	84	12	4	1	26	63	56	9	3	.234	.351	.298	.649	99.0	91.8	.320	2.0
1977	107	305	269	25	48	6	2	1	12	27	28	5	4	.178	.255	.227	.482	34.7	33.9	.233	-0.9
1978	71	127	103	16	22	1	0	0	9	18	21	5	2	.214	.331	.223	.554	69.3	58.3	.286	0.1
1979	53	87	71	7	20	6	0	0	7	13	14	3	3	.282	.395	.366	.762	118.8	108.0	.365	0.6
1980	87	219	180	26	49	6	0	1	9	29	23	4	4	.272	.373	.322	.695	104.8	95.4	.336	1.3

Career totals

1,533

5,516

4,744

539

1,120

136

RBI

267

633

479th-most career BB

653

127

.2361

OBP

.3274

SLG

.2882

OPS

.6156

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
1970-04-17	PHI @ NYM Gameday	3	3	2	0	1	1	2	0	7
1967-07-26	NYM @ SF Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	2	0	6
1970-07-28	SF @ NYM Gameday	3	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1966-09-16	NYM @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	0	1	1	6
1967-07-09	ATL @ NYM Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	5

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× Gold Glove2× 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.