Buddy Bell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 27, 1951 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1972

Final gameJune 17, 1989

Seasons18 (1972–1989)

Cleveland Indians 1972–1978; Texas Rangers 1979–1984; Cincinnati Reds 1985; Texas Rangers 1985; Cincinnati Reds 1986–1988; Houston Astros 1988; Texas Rangers 1989

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified batters

143

36.8

597

42.1

522

36.1

36.8

148

43.6

11.3

20.3

40.6

RBI

34.6

69.9

26.3

83.5

.284

55.6

OBP

.369

69.2

SLG

.425

29.3

OPS

.794

49.6

wRC+

111.8

51.1

OPS+

107.2

43.6

wOBA

.361

60.2

sWAR

3.1

60.2

of 134 qualified 1987 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.7

58.7

OPS+

108.3

58.9

sWAR

47.9

98.7

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
1972	132	505	466	49	119	21	1	9	36	34	29	5	6	.255	.310	.363	.672	93.7	96.9	.311	1.1
1973	156	689	631	86	169	23	7	14	59	49	47	7	15	.268	.325	.393	.718	101.0	100.6	.332	2.8
1974	116	471	423	51	111	15	1	7	46	35	29	1	3	.262	.322	.352	.674	96.2	94.6	.317	1.6
1975	153	619	553	66	150	20	4	10	59	51	72	6	5	.271	.332	.376	.708	99.5	100.3	.327	2.4
1976	159	661	604	75	170	26	2	7	60	44	49	3	8	.281	.329	.366	.695	105.1	105.1	.326	3.0
1977	129	538	479	64	140	23	4	11	64	45	63	1	8	.292	.351	.426	.777	113.9	114.2	.347	2.9
1978	142	606	556	71	157	27	8	6	62	39	43	1	3	.282	.328	.392	.720	103.8	103.1	.331	2.6
1979	162	720	670	89	200	42	3	18	101	30	45	5	4	.299	.327	.451	.778	106.8	109.5	.343	3.5
1980	129	534	490	76	161	24	4	17	83	40	39	3	1	.329	.379	.498	.877	140.5	141.8	.388	4.6
1981	97	415	360	44	106	16	1	10	64	42	30	3	3	.294	.364	.428	.792	128.2	132.8	.355	3.0
1982	148	614	537	62	159	27	2	13	67	70	50	5	4	.296	.376	.426	.803	126.4	125.4	.360	4.3
1983	156	678	618	75	171	35	3	14	66	50	48	3	5	.277	.332	.411	.743	105.4	105.9	.333	3.1
1984	148	630	553	88	174	36	5	11	83	63	54	2	1	.315	.382	.458	.840	130.4	129.3	.374	4.7
1985	151	635	560	61	128	28	5	10	68	67	48	3	3	.229	.309	.350	.659	81.4	80.5	.304	1.0
1986	155	655	568	89	158	29	3	20	75	73	49	2	8	.278	.362	.445	.807	122.4	118.7	.369	4.3
1987	143	597	522	74	148	19	2	17	70	71	39	4	1	.284	.369	.425	.794	111.8	107.2	.361	3.1
1988	95	352	323	27	78	10	1	7	40	26	32	1	1	.241	.295	.344	.639	85.4	85.7	.296	0.6
1989	34	90	82	4	15	4	0	0	3	7	10	0	0	.183	.247	.232	.479	34.4	35.3	.232	-0.7

Career totals

2,405

86th-most career G

10,009

86th-most career PA

8,995

76th-most career AB

1,151

227th-most career R

2,514

100th-most career H

425

152nd-most career 2B

201

381st-most career HR

RBI

1,106

221st-most career RBI

836

238th-most career BB

776

.2795

OBP

.3405

SLG

.4062

OPS

.7467

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
1980-05-22	LAA @ TEX Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	4	10
1975-07-05	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	6	10
1980-04-18	TEX @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	3	10
1982-05-05	TEX @ DET Gameday	4	3	4	2	1	2	9
1982-04-10	TEX @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3	9

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

6× Gold Glove1× Silver Slugger5× 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.