MLB / Players

Doug Griffin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 160 lb

BornJune 4, 1947 · South Gate, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1970

Final gameJune 2, 1977

Seasons8 (1970–1977)

California Angels 1970; Boston Red Sox 1971–1977

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified batters

129

12.6

535

30.6

470

29.7

7.2

122

30.6

5.4

RBI

11.7

39.6

76.6

60.4

71.2

.260

45.9

OBP

.325

43.2

SLG

.302

13.5

OPS

.627

19.8

wRC+

83.3

20.7

OPS+

83.7

wOBA

.300

22.5

sWAR

1.0

of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.3

20.3

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	18	62	55	2	7	1	0	0	4	6	5	0	0	.127	.213	.145	.359	-4.2	3.0	.177	-0.5
1971	125	526	483	51	118	23	2	3	27	31	45	11	5	.244	.291	.319	.610	64.0	68.5	.285	-0.3
1972	129	535	470	43	122	12	1	2	35	45	48	9	2	.260	.325	.302	.627	83.3	83.7	.300	1.0
1973	113	439	396	43	101	14	5	1	33	21	42	7	5	.255	.293	.323	.617	66.9	70.1	.288	0.0
1974	93	349	312	35	83	12	4	0	33	28	21	2	8	.266	.329	.330	.660	86.3	86.0	.311	0.8
1975	100	316	287	21	69	6	0	1	29	18	29	2	2	.240	.288	.272	.560	52.2	54.3	.268	-0.5
1976	49	141	127	14	24	2	0	0	4	9	14	2	1	.189	.248	.205	.453	23.0	28.1	.226	-0.7
1977	5	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.6	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

632

2,374

2,136

209

524

RBI

165

158

204

.2453

OBP

.2990

SLG

.2992

OPS

.5982

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
1973-04-14	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	1	7
1971-08-14	KC @ BOS Gameday	5	0	4	2	0	0	6
1972-06-01	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	5
1971-08-11	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	2	5
1972-07-21	ATH @ BOS Gameday	7	2	2	0	1	1	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.

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.