Butch Hobson
Boston Red Sox 1975–1980; California Angels 1981; New York Yankees 1982
Percentile snapshot
1979 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 496 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 28.0 | 37.5 | .233 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 76 | 292 | 269 | 34 | 63 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 15 | 62 | 0 | 1 | .234 | .272 | .387 | .658 | 77.5 | 83.2 | .302 | 0.4 |
| 1977 | 159 | 637 | 593 | 77 | 157 | 33 | 5 | 30 | 112 | 27 | 162 | 5 | 4 | .265 | .300 | .489 | .789 | 99.4 | 102.5 | .343 | 2.4 |
| 1978 | 147 | 574 | 512 | 65 | 128 | 26 | 2 | 17 | 80 | 50 | 122 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .312 | .408 | .720 | 92.1 | 94.3 | .326 | 1.5 |
| 1979 | 146 | 570 | 528 | 74 | 138 | 26 | 7 | 28 | 93 | 30 | 78 | 3 | 2 | .261 | .298 | .496 | .794 | 103.0 | 106.5 | .345 | 2.4 |
| 1980 | 93 | 352 | 324 | 35 | 74 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 39 | 25 | 69 | 1 | 1 | .228 | .281 | .349 | .630 | 65.7 | 69.1 | .286 | -0.6 |
| 1981 | 85 | 310 | 268 | 27 | 63 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 35 | 60 | 1 | 1 | .235 | .321 | .336 | .657 | 94.6 | 90.8 | .313 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 30 | 60 | 58 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .183 | .207 | .390 | -1.7 | 8.4 | .177 | -0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-06-12 | BOS @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1979-08-16 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1977-09-25 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1977-07-13 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1977-07-21 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 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.