MLB / Players

Clete Boyer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornFebruary 9, 1937 · Cossville, MO, USA

MLB debutJune 5, 1955

Final gameMay 23, 1971

Seasons16 (1955–1971)

Kansas City Athletics 1955–1957; New York Yankees 1959–1966; Atlanta Braves 1967–1971

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified batters

134

8.8

525

475

14.2

2.7

117

8.8

4.4

46.9

RBI

33.6

23.9

50.4

16.8

38.1

.246

12.4

OBP

.305

13.3

SLG

.381

24.8

OPS

.686

20.4

wRC+

74.4

10.6

OPS+

78.8

12.4

wOBA

.308

13.3

sWAR

0.3

11.5

of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

83.5

14.3

OPS+

87.4

sWAR

12.4

89.2

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
1955	47	82	79	3	19	1	0	0	6	3	17	0	0	.241	.268	.253	.521	32.4	38.9	.249	-0.3
1956	67	143	129	15	28	3	1	1	4	11	24	1	1	.217	.284	.279	.563	43.7	47.7	.267	-0.4
1957	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1959	47	124	114	4	20	2	0	0	3	6	23	1	0	.175	.215	.193	.408	5.7	15.7	.186	-0.8
1960	124	431	393	54	95	20	1	14	46	23	85	2	3	.242	.285	.405	.690	86.3	90.5	.309	1.0
1961	148	578	504	61	113	19	5	11	55	63	83	1	3	.224	.308	.347	.656	80.0	80.9	.300	0.8
1962	158	633	566	85	154	24	1	18	68	51	106	3	2	.272	.331	.413	.745	100.9	104.3	.330	2.4
1963	152	596	557	59	140	20	3	12	54	33	91	4	2	.251	.295	.363	.657	79.7	86.0	.289	0.8
1964	147	554	510	43	111	10	5	8	52	36	93	6	1	.218	.269	.304	.573	49.8	59.5	.254	-1.2
1965	148	561	514	69	129	23	6	18	58	39	79	4	1	.251	.304	.424	.728	101.9	106.6	.321	2.3
1966	144	558	500	59	120	22	4	14	57	46	48	6	0	.240	.303	.384	.687	98.9	99.8	.309	2.3
1967	154	619	572	63	140	18	3	26	96	39	81	6	3	.245	.292	.423	.715	103.6	103.8	.324	2.7
1968	71	291	273	19	62	7	2	4	17	16	32	2	0	.227	.275	.311	.586	72.5	76.0	.275	0.2
1969	144	562	496	57	124	16	1	14	57	55	87	3	7	.250	.328	.371	.699	96.3	95.6	.325	1.9
1970	134	525	475	44	117	14	1	16	62	41	71	2	5	.246	.305	.381	.686	74.4	78.8	.308	0.3
1971	30	108	98	10	24	1	0	6	19	8	11	0	0	.245	.299	.439	.738	95.7	101.4	.328	0.4

Career totals

1,725

485th-most career G

6,365

5,780

645

1,396

200

162

RBI

654

470

931

469th-most career SO

.2415

OBP

.2988

SLG

.3716

OPS

.6704

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1966-06-10	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	1	0	9
1967-08-03	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3	0	9
1969-07-16	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	1	9
1971-05-19	WSH @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	0	9
1962-06-10	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	2	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-08-23	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-07-24	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-09-18	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-09-19	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-04-30	BOS @ ATH 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

1× Gold Glove

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.