Denny Doyle

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 17, 1943 · Glasgow, KY, USA

MLB debutApril 7, 1970

Final gameSeptember 30, 1977

Seasons8 (1970–1977)

Philadelphia Phillies 1970–1973; California Angels 1974; Boston Red Sox 1975; California Angels 1975; Boston Red Sox 1976–1977

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

137

14.4

500

455

6.8

4.8

109

2.7

60.3

2.7

RBI

17.1

82.2

.240

4.8

OBP

.289

2.1

SLG

.308

0.7

OPS

.596

0.7

wRC+

51.7

OPS+

56.4

0.7

wOBA

.272

0.7

sWAR

-1.0

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

66.9

2.3

OPS+

69.8

2.5

sWAR

-0.3

21.7

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
1970	112	449	413	43	86	10	7	2	16	33	64	6	5	.208	.266	.281	.546	44.9	47.2	.255	-1.4
1971	95	368	342	34	79	12	1	3	24	19	31	4	2	.231	.280	.298	.578	63.8	65.0	.274	-0.2
1972	123	484	442	33	110	14	2	1	26	31	33	6	7	.249	.295	.296	.591	64.2	66.7	.279	-0.2
1973	116	409	370	45	101	9	3	3	26	31	32	1	3	.273	.327	.338	.665	79.3	82.7	.305	0.5
1974	147	548	511	47	133	19	2	1	34	25	49	6	7	.260	.295	.311	.606	77.3	79.3	.284	0.7
1975	97	353	325	50	97	21	2	4	36	15	12	5	7	.298	.329	.412	.742	102.8	102.4	.341	1.5
1976	117	461	432	51	108	15	5	0	26	22	39	8	5	.250	.285	.308	.593	62.6	66.4	.281	-0.2
1977	137	500	455	54	109	13	6	2	49	29	50	2	4	.240	.289	.308	.596	51.7	56.4	.272	-1.0

Career totals

944

3,572

3,290

357

823

113

RBI

237

205

310

.2502

OBP

.2945

SLG

.3161

OPS

.6106

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	HR	RBI	TB
1970-06-03	PHI @ CIN Gameday	6	2	3	2	1	1	8
1971-07-30	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	2	7
1977-08-30	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	1	6
1973-09-07	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	2	6
1974-04-30	LAA @ BOS Gameday	6	2	5	0	0	2	5

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.