John Boccabella
Chicago Cubs 1963–1968; Montreal Expos 1969–1973; San Francisco Giants 1974
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 24 | 81 | 74 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 1 | .189 | .247 | .311 | .558 | 52.0 | 56.0 | .257 | -0.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | 23 | 23 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .391 | .391 | .565 | .957 | 169.6 | 161.4 | .426 | 0.2 |
| 1965 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .385 | .833 | 1.218 | 235.3 | 227.4 | .519 | 0.2 |
| 1966 | 75 | 229 | 206 | 22 | 47 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 25 | 14 | 39 | 0 | 1 | .228 | .274 | .359 | .633 | 69.8 | 72.9 | .283 | -0.5 |
| 1967 | 25 | 40 | 35 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .250 | .257 | .507 | 32.3 | 42.7 | .232 | -0.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .176 | .071 | .248 | -32.8 | -25.0 | .144 | -0.2 |
| 1969 | 40 | 94 | 86 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 1 | 0 | .105 | .170 | .163 | .333 | -18.8 | -6.7 | .160 | -0.8 |
| 1970 | 61 | 156 | 145 | 18 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .269 | .321 | .407 | .727 | 91.1 | 93.0 | .328 | 0.3 |
| 1971 | 74 | 195 | 177 | 15 | 39 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 26 | 0 | 1 | .220 | .278 | .333 | .612 | 67.6 | 72.3 | .282 | -0.1 |
| 1972 | 83 | 222 | 207 | 14 | 47 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 29 | 1 | 2 | .227 | .259 | .290 | .549 | 44.5 | 54.9 | .250 | -0.1 |
| 1973 | 118 | 440 | 403 | 25 | 94 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 46 | 26 | 57 | 1 | 1 | .233 | .279 | .318 | .597 | 55.8 | 63.2 | .271 | 0.1 |
| 1974 | 29 | 85 | 80 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .176 | .175 | .351 | -23.8 | -3.0 | .158 | -0.8 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-07-06 | HOU @ WSH Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 1965-09-12 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1966-06-22 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1970-08-05 | CHC @ WSH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1973-07-03 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.