MLB / Players

Buddy Rosar

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 3, 1914 · Buffalo, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 1939

Final gameSeptember 19, 1951

Seasons13 (1939–1951)

New York Yankees 1939–1942; Cleveland Indians 1943–1944; Philadelphia Athletics 1945–1949; Boston Red Sox 1950–1951

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

wRC+

83.7

14.4

OPS+

84.2

sWAR

12.7

89.4

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
1939	43	121	105	18	29	5	1	0	12	13	10	4	0	.276	.356	.343	.699	87.1	83.8	.332	0.5
1940	73	254	228	34	68	11	3	4	37	19	11	7	1	.298	.357	.425	.783	102.7	103.0	.355	1.4
1941	67	233	209	25	60	17	2	1	36	22	10	0	0	.287	.355	.402	.757	103.4	103.5	.352	1.3
1942	69	226	209	18	48	10	0	2	34	17	20	1	2	.230	.288	.306	.594	67.6	70.5	.286	0.4
1943	115	419	382	53	108	17	1	1	41	33	12	0	4	.283	.340	.340	.680	104.1	104.4	.329	2.7
1944	99	375	331	29	87	9	3	0	30	34	17	1	2	.263	.339	.308	.647	91.2	88.7	.317	1.7
1945	92	325	300	23	63	12	1	1	25	20	16	2	1	.210	.262	.267	.528	46.3	53.4	.258	-0.2
1946	121	464	424	34	120	22	2	2	47	36	17	1	3	.283	.339	.358	.698	94.1	95.0	.330	2.3
1947	102	409	359	40	93	20	2	1	33	40	13	1	3	.259	.335	.334	.669	84.6	84.8	.323	1.5
1948	90	349	302	30	77	13	0	4	41	39	12	0	2	.255	.344	.338	.682	83.1	82.0	.331	1.1
1949	32	114	95	7	19	2	0	0	6	16	5	0	0	.200	.315	.221	.536	49.4	44.8	.280	-0.1
1950	27	91	84	13	25	2	0	1	12	7	4	0	0	.298	.352	.357	.709	72.8	74.7	.335	0.2
1951	58	191	170	11	39	7	0	1	13	19	14	0	0	.229	.307	.288	.595	52.4	54.9	.289	0.0

Career totals

988

3,571

3,198

335

836

147

RBI

367

315

161

.2614

OBP

.3295

SLG

.3336

OPS

.6631

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
1940-07-19	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	4	4	1	1	1	3	1	10
1940-07-04	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1941-04-20	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	2	4	3	0	0	3	0	7
1951-09-16	CWS @ BOS Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	1	3	0	7
1944-06-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	6	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-20	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-24	ATH @ NYY 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

5× 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.