MLB / Players

Glenn Beckert

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 12, 1940 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1965

Final gameApril 27, 1975

Seasons11 (1965–1975)

Chicago Cubs 1965–1973; San Diego Padres 1974–1975

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified batters

120

1.8

510

17.1

474

32.4

23.4

128

40.5

48.6

18.9

15.3

RBI

26.1

1.8

100

21.6

83.8

.270

58.6

OBP

.304

20.7

SLG

.344

27.9

OPS

.648

26.1

wRC+

74.9

11.7

OPS+

77.2

12.6

wOBA

.301

23.4

sWAR

0.4

9.9

of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

82.1

12.9

OPS+

82.0

11.6

sWAR

9.3

86.2

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
1965	154	653	614	73	147	21	3	3	30	28	52	6	8	.239	.275	.298	.573	57.0	59.1	.266	-1.0
1966	153	693	656	73	188	23	7	1	59	26	36	10	4	.287	.317	.348	.664	84.2	83.3	.304	1.3
1967	146	636	597	91	167	32	3	5	40	30	25	10	3	.280	.314	.369	.682	92.7	90.9	.317	1.8
1968	155	685	643	98	189	28	4	4	37	31	20	8	4	.294	.326	.369	.695	107.5	103.5	.327	3.3
1969	131	582	543	69	158	22	1	1	37	24	24	6	0	.291	.325	.341	.666	77.7	78.3	.313	0.6
1970	143	632	591	99	170	15	6	3	36	32	22	4	1	.288	.323	.349	.671	72.1	72.5	.312	0.1
1971	131	570	530	80	181	18	5	2	42	24	24	3	2	.342	.367	.406	.773	112.1	107.8	.359	3.0
1972	120	510	474	51	128	22	2	3	43	23	17	2	1	.270	.304	.344	.648	74.9	77.2	.301	0.4
1973	114	410	372	38	95	13	0	0	29	30	15	0	2	.255	.313	.290	.603	64.8	63.9	.289	-0.2
1974	64	184	172	11	44	1	0	0	7	11	8	0	0	.256	.301	.262	.562	62.3	60.9	.275	-0.2
1975	9	17	16	2	6	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.375	.412	.438	.849	148.4	141.3	.401	0.2

Career totals

1,320

5,572

5,208

685

1,473

196

RBI

360

260

243

.2828

OBP

.3177

SLG

.3450

OPS

.6627

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
1972-05-02	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	3	9
1965-07-01	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
1969-08-04	CHC @ HOU Gameday	6	1	5	2	0	0	2	7
1970-07-26	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	1	5	2	0	0	1	7
1970-04-25	HOU @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-10-01	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965-10-02	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966-04-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966-05-22	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966-05-22	CHC @ ATL 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

1× Gold Glove4× 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.