George Foster

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 1, 1948 · Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1969

Final gameSeptember 6, 1986

Seasons18 (1969–1986)

San Francisco Giants 1969–1970; Cincinnati Reds 1971; San Francisco Giants 1971; Cincinnati Reds 1972–1981; New York Mets 1982–1985; Chicago White Sox 1986; New York Mets 1986

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

129

8.1

504

452

8.1

12.5

119

31.6

8.1

66.2

RBI

59.6

36.8

35.3

84.6

.263

OBP

.331

46.3

SLG

.460

OPS

.792

65.4

wRC+

122.9

72.1

OPS+

123.4

74.3

wOBA

.356

69.1

sWAR

2.4

50.7

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

125.8

86.4

OPS+

126.9

87.6

sWAR

41.7

98.1

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
1969	9	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	131.7	127.3	.373	0.0
1970	9	21	19	2	6	1	1	1	4	2	5	0	0	.316	.381	.632	1.013	160.1	168.4	.430	0.2
1971	140	514	473	50	114	23	4	13	58	29	120	7	7	.241	.292	.389	.681	92.1	94.2	.312	1.3
1972	59	152	145	15	29	4	1	2	12	5	44	2	1	.200	.230	.283	.513	41.6	49.8	.236	-0.8
1973	17	43	39	6	11	3	0	4	9	4	7	0	1	.282	.349	.667	1.016	183.2	183.4	.446	0.6
1974	106	314	276	31	73	18	0	7	41	30	52	3	2	.264	.343	.406	.749	111.6	112.2	.348	1.1
1975	134	511	463	71	139	24	4	23	78	40	73	2	1	.300	.356	.518	.875	137.6	140.8	.391	3.4
1976	144	627	562	86	172	21	9	29	121	52	89	17	3	.306	.364	.530	.894	151.6	150.8	.405	5.4
1977	158	689	615	124	197	31	2	52	149	61	107	6	4	.320	.382	.631	1.013	164.9	165.5	.436	7.2
1978	158	687	604	97	170	26	7	40	120	70	138	4	4	.281	.360	.546	.906	149.3	151.2	.400	5.6
1979	121	505	440	68	133	18	3	30	98	59	105	0	2	.302	.386	.561	.948	157.7	155.9	.420	4.7
1980	144	608	528	79	144	21	5	25	93	75	99	1	0	.273	.362	.473	.835	132.5	132.7	.375	3.6
1981	108	472	414	64	122	23	2	22	90	51	75	4	0	.295	.373	.519	.892	153.4	150.1	.405	4.0
1982	151	608	550	64	136	23	2	13	70	50	123	1	1	.247	.309	.367	.676	86.9	89.4	.310	0.3
1983	157	647	601	74	145	19	2	28	90	38	111	1	1	.241	.289	.419	.708	92.1	95.1	.319	0.7
1984	146	595	553	67	149	22	1	24	86	30	122	2	2	.269	.311	.443	.754	107.7	112.2	.337	1.8
1985	129	504	452	57	119	24	1	21	77	46	87	0	1	.263	.331	.460	.792	122.9	123.4	.356	2.4
1986	87	310	284	30	64	6	3	14	42	24	61	1	1	.225	.284	.415	.699	91.3	93.4	.315	0.3

Career totals

1,977

278th-most career G

7,812

323rd-most career PA

7,023

309th-most career AB

986

372nd-most career R

1,925

338th-most career H

307

460th-most career 2B

348

106th-most career HR

RBI

1,239

141st-most career RBI

666

423rd-most career BB

1,419

105th-most career SO

.2741

OBP

.3385

SLG

.4799

224th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8184

363rd-highest career OPS

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	BB	TB
1977-07-14	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	5	0	12
1977-04-25	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	5	4	1	2	7	1	11
1980-07-12	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	5	0	10
1978-07-17	WSH @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	5	0	10
1977-08-05	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	4	0	10

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× All-Star Game MVP1× Most Valuable Player1× 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.