MLB / Players

Freddie Patek

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 5 in · 148 lb

BornOctober 9, 1944 · Oklahoma City, OK, USA

MLB debutJune 3, 1968

Final gameOctober 3, 1981

Seasons14 (1968–1981)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1968–1970; Kansas City Royals 1971–1979; California Angels 1980–1981

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

154

69.2

563

497

130

17.1

47.9

60.3

14.4

RBI

32.2

27.4

97.3

.262

24.7

OBP

.320

15.1

SLG

.368

16.4

OPS

.688

14.4

wRC+

88.1

17.8

OPS+

88.1

17.1

wOBA

.312

15.1

sWAR

1.9

32.9

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

79.3

9.6

OPS+

79.1

8.4

sWAR

14.6

90.7

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
1968	61	234	208	31	53	4	2	2	18	12	37	18	7	.255	.298	.322	.620	88.8	87.7	.294	0.8
1969	147	522	460	48	110	9	1	5	32	53	86	15	8	.239	.318	.296	.614	71.6	76.0	.285	0.7
1970	84	276	237	42	58	10	5	1	19	29	46	8	2	.245	.322	.342	.664	84.0	81.6	.310	0.7
1971	147	648	591	86	158	21	11	6	36	44	80	49	14	.267	.323	.371	.693	99.0	98.3	.323	3.0
1972	136	577	518	59	110	25	4	0	32	47	64	33	7	.212	.280	.276	.556	61.2	64.5	.268	0.2
1973	135	571	501	82	117	19	5	5	45	54	63	36	14	.234	.311	.321	.632	76.7	74.9	.301	1.1
1974	149	630	537	72	121	18	6	3	38	77	69	33	15	.225	.324	.298	.622	81.5	76.5	.303	1.6
1975	136	541	483	58	110	14	5	5	45	42	65	32	7	.228	.291	.308	.599	69.0	68.7	.285	0.6
1976	144	503	432	58	104	19	3	1	43	50	63	51	15	.241	.318	.306	.624	84.7	84.4	.298	1.6
1977	154	563	497	72	130	26	6	5	60	41	84	53	13	.262	.320	.368	.688	88.1	88.1	.312	1.9
1978	138	496	440	54	109	23	1	2	46	42	56	38	11	.248	.312	.318	.630	77.5	76.9	.297	1.1
1979	106	338	306	30	77	17	0	1	37	16	42	11	12	.252	.293	.317	.610	63.4	64.1	.281	0.2
1980	86	299	273	41	72	10	5	5	34	15	26	7	6	.264	.302	.392	.694	90.3	91.9	.313	1.1
1981	27	48	47	3	11	1	1	0	5	1	6	1	0	.234	.250	.298	.548	52.7	58.3	.253	0.0

Career totals

1,650

6,246

5,530

736

1,340

216

RBI

490

523

787

385

83rd-most career SB

.2423

OBP

.3091

SLG

.3235

OPS

.6326

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
1980-06-20	LAA @ BOS Gameday	6	4	4	1	0	3	7	0	14
1971-07-09	KC @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1970-08-06	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	0	0	1	6
1972-06-20	KC @ NYY Gameday	5	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1973-09-20	CWS @ KC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	4	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-05-31	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-14	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-16	HOU @ PIT 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× 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.