John Buck
Kansas City Royals 2004–2009; Toronto Blue Jays 2010; Florida Marlins 2011; Miami Marlins 2012; New York Mets 2013; Pittsburgh Pirates 2013; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2014; Seattle Mariners 2014
Percentile snapshot
2011 season — qualified batters
of 145 qualified 2011 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 71 | 258 | 238 | 36 | 56 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 30 | 15 | 79 | 1 | 1 | .235 | .280 | .424 | .704 | 78.4 | 80.4 | .305 | 0.7 |
| 2005 | 118 | 430 | 401 | 40 | 97 | 21 | 1 | 12 | 47 | 23 | 94 | 2 | 2 | .242 | .287 | .389 | .676 | 75.4 | 77.9 | .295 | 1.1 |
| 2006 | 114 | 409 | 371 | 37 | 91 | 21 | 1 | 11 | 50 | 26 | 84 | 0 | 2 | .245 | .306 | .396 | .702 | 77.6 | 78.8 | .309 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 113 | 399 | 347 | 41 | 77 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 48 | 36 | 92 | 0 | 1 | .222 | .308 | .429 | .738 | 90.9 | 91.2 | .327 | 1.8 |
| 2008 | 109 | 418 | 370 | 48 | 83 | 23 | 1 | 9 | 48 | 38 | 96 | 0 | 3 | .224 | .304 | .365 | .669 | 76.2 | 76.6 | .301 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 59 | 202 | 186 | 16 | 46 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 36 | 13 | 55 | 1 | 1 | .247 | .299 | .484 | .782 | 99.5 | 101.2 | .336 | 0.9 |
| 2010 | 118 | 437 | 409 | 53 | 115 | 25 | 0 | 20 | 66 | 16 | 111 | 0 | 0 | .281 | .314 | .489 | .802 | 111.9 | 114.1 | .347 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 140 | 530 | 466 | 41 | 106 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 57 | 54 | 115 | 0 | 1 | .227 | .316 | .367 | .683 | 87.0 | 87.7 | .309 | 2.1 |
| 2012 | 106 | 398 | 343 | 29 | 66 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 41 | 49 | 103 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .297 | .347 | .644 | 73.4 | 74.8 | .289 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 110 | 431 | 392 | 39 | 87 | 11 | 0 | 15 | 62 | 29 | 104 | 2 | 1 | .222 | .288 | .365 | .652 | 81.5 | 85.0 | .291 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | 97 | 89 | 9 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .289 | .281 | .570 | 67.6 | 66.4 | .266 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-04-29 | ATH @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 2004-09-13 | NYY @ KC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 2004-09-24 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 2009-04-30 | TOR @ KC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2009-04-14 | CLE @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.