MLB / Players

Frank Malzone

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 28, 1930 · Bronx, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1955

Final gameOctober 1, 1966

Seasons12 (1955–1966)

Boston Red Sox 1955–1965; California Angels 1966

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

148

35.1

585

537

44.7

23.4

142

38.3

29.8

41.5

RBI

31.9

24.5

92.6

88.3

.264

37.2

OBP

.312

22.3

SLG

.372

26.6

OPS

.685

24.5

wRC+

83.9

18.1

OPS+

84.6

18.1

wOBA

.310

25.5

sWAR

1.1

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.3

OPS+

90.6

24.1

sWAR

13.6

90.1

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	6	21	20	2	7	1	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	.350	.381	.400	.781	106.6	103.8	.367	0.1
1956	27	115	103	15	17	3	1	2	11	9	8	1	0	.165	.230	.272	.502	17.3	26.6	.237	-0.7
1957	153	672	634	82	185	31	5	15	103	31	41	2	1	.292	.323	.427	.751	97.8	98.9	.340	2.3
1958	155	672	627	76	185	30	2	15	87	33	53	1	3	.295	.333	.421	.754	99.7	100.5	.339	2.5
1959	154	660	604	90	169	34	2	19	92	42	58	6	0	.280	.323	.437	.760	98.1	102.1	.336	2.3
1960	152	647	595	60	161	30	2	14	79	36	42	2	3	.271	.313	.398	.711	83.7	87.6	.319	1.1
1961	151	644	590	74	157	21	4	14	87	44	49	1	3	.266	.314	.386	.700	80.6	84.0	.314	0.8
1962	156	663	619	74	175	20	3	21	95	35	43	0	1	.283	.319	.426	.745	93.9	95.9	.331	2.0
1963	151	623	580	66	169	25	2	15	71	31	45	0	2	.291	.327	.419	.746	102.7	104.2	.331	2.6
1964	148	585	537	62	142	19	0	13	56	37	43	0	0	.264	.312	.372	.685	83.9	84.6	.310	1.1
1965	106	400	364	40	87	20	0	3	34	28	38	1	1	.239	.293	.319	.612	67.2	68.3	.285	-0.1
1966	82	166	155	6	32	5	0	2	12	10	11	0	0	.206	.253	.277	.530	50.3	54.8	.243	-0.4

Career totals

1,441

5,868

5,428

647

1,486

239

133

RBI

728

337

434

.2738

OBP

.3152

SLG

.3990

OPS

.7142

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	TB
1961-08-15	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	2	3	11
1959-08-05	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	5	11
1957-08-26	BOS @ ATH Gameday	6	4	4	1	0	2	3	11
1962-06-09	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	3	11
1963-05-19	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	5	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
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
1957-06-07	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

3× Gold Glove6× All-Star

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