Buddy Bradford
Chicago White Sox 1966–1970; Cleveland Indians 1970; Cincinnati Reds 1971; Cleveland Indians 1971; Chicago White Sox 1972–1975; St. Louis Cardinals 1975; Chicago White Sox 1976
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 14 | 30 | 28 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .200 | .143 | .343 | 2.4 | 4.7 | .171 | -0.3 |
| 1967 | 24 | 21 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .100 | .143 | .150 | .293 | -43.1 | -11.0 | .113 | -0.4 |
| 1968 | 103 | 313 | 281 | 32 | 61 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 67 | 8 | 4 | .217 | .277 | .310 | .587 | 74.1 | 77.5 | .275 | -0.4 |
| 1969 | 93 | 313 | 273 | 36 | 70 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 27 | 34 | 75 | 5 | 2 | .256 | .347 | .421 | .769 | 110.4 | 109.0 | .354 | 1.2 |
| 1970 | 107 | 289 | 254 | 33 | 49 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 31 | 31 | 73 | 1 | 3 | .193 | .281 | .343 | .624 | 66.4 | 68.0 | .290 | -0.2 |
| 1971 | 99 | 162 | 138 | 21 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 20 | 33 | 4 | 2 | .188 | .304 | .283 | .587 | 63.5 | 67.9 | .275 | -0.3 |
| 1972 | 35 | 54 | 48 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 2 | .271 | .340 | .438 | .777 | 136.2 | 129.2 | .364 | 0.4 |
| 1973 | 53 | 187 | 168 | 24 | 40 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 43 | 4 | 5 | .238 | .316 | .411 | .726 | 101.2 | 101.1 | .334 | 0.8 |
| 1974 | 39 | 112 | 96 | 16 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 2 | .333 | .414 | .510 | .925 | 169.9 | 162.9 | .425 | 1.1 |
| 1975 | 75 | 167 | 139 | 20 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 30 | 20 | 46 | 3 | 4 | .223 | .325 | .396 | .721 | 101.2 | 98.4 | .338 | 0.3 |
| 1976 | 55 | 183 | 160 | 20 | 35 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 37 | 6 | 0 | .219 | .309 | .350 | .659 | 92.9 | 92.6 | .312 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-04-15 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1970-08-29 | LAA @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1975-07-03 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1968-07-01 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1976-06-10 | CWS @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
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.