Buddy Biancalana
Kansas City Royals 1982–1986; Houston Astros 1987; Kansas City Royals 1987
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .667 | 1.500 | 2.167 | 425.2 | 475.3 | .803 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 1.4 | 11.0 | .182 | -0.1 |
| 1984 | 66 | 145 | 134 | 18 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 44 | 1 | 2 | .194 | .229 | .299 | .527 | 40.1 | 45.0 | .240 | -0.3 |
| 1985 | 81 | 160 | 138 | 21 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 34 | 1 | 4 | .188 | .277 | .261 | .538 | 53.1 | 49.5 | .257 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 100 | 209 | 190 | 24 | 46 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 50 | 5 | 1 | .242 | .298 | .337 | .634 | 72.8 | 72.3 | .290 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 55 | 74 | 71 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .155 | .178 | .211 | .389 | -3.5 | 2.4 | .176 | -0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-08-18 | KC @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1986-06-15 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1985-04-17 | BOS @ KC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1987-04-08 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1984-09-18 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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.