Lyman Bostock
Minnesota Twins 1975–1977; California Angels 1978
Percentile snapshot
1978 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1978 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 98 | 400 | 369 | 52 | 104 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 28 | 42 | 2 | 3 | .282 | .331 | .366 | .697 | 96.0 | 95.9 | .324 | 0.9 |
| 1976 | 128 | 517 | 474 | 75 | 153 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 60 | 33 | 37 | 12 | 6 | .323 | .364 | .430 | .794 | 130.7 | 130.4 | .366 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 153 | 660 | 593 | 104 | 199 | 36 | 12 | 14 | 90 | 51 | 59 | 16 | 7 | .336 | .389 | .508 | .897 | 145.2 | 144.1 | .396 | 5.7 |
| 1978 | 147 | 637 | 568 | 74 | 168 | 24 | 4 | 5 | 71 | 59 | 36 | 15 | 12 | .296 | .362 | .379 | .740 | 113.8 | 113.1 | .341 | 2.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-07-24 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 1977-06-14 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1977-07-26 | MIN @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1976-09-21 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 1977-09-21 | MIN @ KC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
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.