MLB / Players

Frank White

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 4, 1950 · Greenville, MS, USA

MLB debutJune 12, 1973

Final gameSeptember 30, 1990

Seasons18 (1973–1990)

Kansas City Royals 1973–1990

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified batters

150

50.4

575

30.2

537

42.6

5.4

126

19.4

42.6

9.3

29.5

RBI

37.2

2.3

57.4

36.4

.235

5.4

OBP

.266

0.8

SLG

.330

8.5

OPS

.595

2.3

wRC+

61.6

0.8

OPS+

66.4

2.3

wOBA

.268

0.8

sWAR

-0.4

1.6

of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

83.2

13.8

OPS+

85.5

16.5

sWAR

16.4

91.8

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
1973	51	151	139	20	31	6	1	0	5	8	23	3	1	.223	.262	.281	.542	44.3	49.8	.255	-0.3
1974	99	214	204	19	45	6	3	1	18	5	33	3	4	.221	.239	.294	.533	42.5	49.9	.248	-0.5
1975	111	329	304	43	76	10	2	7	36	20	39	11	3	.250	.297	.365	.662	84.3	85.3	.307	0.9
1976	152	489	446	39	102	17	6	2	46	19	42	20	11	.229	.263	.307	.570	63.9	67.6	.269	0.1
1977	152	514	474	59	116	21	5	5	50	25	67	23	5	.245	.284	.342	.626	69.3	70.7	.284	0.1
1978	143	501	461	66	127	24	6	7	50	26	59	13	10	.275	.317	.399	.716	98.8	99.3	.327	1.9
1979	127	503	467	73	124	26	4	10	48	25	54	28	8	.266	.300	.403	.703	83.5	87.1	.311	0.9
1980	154	594	560	70	148	23	4	7	60	19	69	19	6	.264	.289	.357	.646	73.4	75.7	.294	0.4
1981	94	390	364	35	91	17	1	9	38	19	50	4	2	.250	.285	.376	.661	88.7	90.8	.303	1.0
1982	145	554	524	71	156	45	6	11	56	16	65	10	7	.298	.318	.469	.788	111.9	113.4	.346	2.9
1983	146	579	549	52	143	35	6	11	77	20	51	13	5	.260	.283	.406	.690	83.1	88.0	.303	1.1
1984	129	515	479	58	130	22	5	17	56	27	72	5	5	.271	.311	.445	.756	105.2	107.0	.334	2.3
1985	149	600	563	62	140	25	1	22	69	28	86	10	4	.249	.284	.414	.698	86.7	89.4	.307	1.4
1986	151	620	566	76	154	37	3	22	84	43	88	4	4	.272	.322	.465	.787	108.1	111.0	.343	3.0
1987	154	624	563	67	138	32	2	17	78	51	86	1	3	.245	.308	.400	.708	83.6	85.2	.310	1.1
1988	150	575	537	48	126	25	1	8	58	21	67	7	3	.235	.266	.330	.595	61.6	66.4	.268	-0.4
1989	135	458	418	34	107	22	1	2	36	30	52	3	2	.256	.307	.328	.635	81.3	80.4	.297	0.8
1990	82	257	241	20	52	14	1	2	21	10	32	1	0	.216	.253	.307	.560	53.3	57.7	.258	-0.4

Career totals

2,324

107th-most career G

8,467

212th-most career PA

7,859

172nd-most career AB

912

466th-most career R

2,006

295th-most career H

407

184th-most career 2B

160

RBI

886

418th-most career RBI

412

1,035

361st-most career SO

178

444th-most career SB

.2552

OBP

.2926

SLG

.3829

OPS

.6755

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
1986-08-19	TEX @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	7	1	11
1982-08-03	DET @ KC Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	1	4	0	10
1979-09-26	KC @ LAA Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1985-04-28	KC @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1985-07-24	NYY @ KC Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9

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

8× Gold Glove1× ALCS MVP1× Silver Slugger5× 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.