Don Buford
Chicago White Sox 1963–1967; Baltimore Orioles 1968–1972
Percentile snapshot
1972 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 12 | 48 | 42 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .286 | .354 | .405 | .759 | 119.3 | 116.5 | .344 | 0.3 |
| 1964 | 135 | 504 | 442 | 62 | 116 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 30 | 46 | 62 | 12 | 7 | .262 | .337 | .348 | .685 | 98.8 | 96.0 | .316 | 1.8 |
| 1965 | 155 | 668 | 586 | 93 | 166 | 22 | 5 | 10 | 47 | 67 | 76 | 17 | 7 | .283 | .358 | .389 | .747 | 123.8 | 120.7 | .344 | 4.5 |
| 1966 | 163 | 698 | 607 | 85 | 148 | 26 | 7 | 8 | 52 | 69 | 71 | 51 | 22 | .244 | .323 | .349 | .672 | 104.3 | 101.3 | .311 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 156 | 609 | 535 | 61 | 129 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 32 | 65 | 51 | 34 | 21 | .241 | .322 | .316 | .638 | 97.6 | 94.4 | .303 | 2.2 |
| 1968 | 130 | 494 | 426 | 65 | 120 | 13 | 4 | 15 | 46 | 57 | 46 | 27 | 12 | .282 | .367 | .437 | .804 | 150.4 | 144.8 | .370 | 4.7 |
| 1969 | 144 | 663 | 554 | 99 | 161 | 31 | 3 | 11 | 64 | 96 | 62 | 19 | 18 | .291 | .397 | .417 | .814 | 135.8 | 130.1 | .381 | 4.4 |
| 1970 | 144 | 629 | 504 | 99 | 137 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 66 | 109 | 55 | 16 | 8 | .272 | .406 | .411 | .816 | 135.0 | 127.7 | .381 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 122 | 549 | 449 | 99 | 130 | 19 | 4 | 19 | 54 | 89 | 62 | 15 | 7 | .290 | .413 | .477 | .890 | 159.7 | 156.3 | .406 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 125 | 485 | 408 | 46 | 84 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 69 | 83 | 8 | 3 | .206 | .326 | .267 | .593 | 80.0 | 77.8 | .290 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-08-22 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1964-07-20 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1970-04-09 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1971-05-31 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1970-06-26 | BAL @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.