MLB / Players

Mark Belanger

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 170 lb

BornJune 8, 1944 · Pittsfield, MA, USA

MLB debutAugust 7, 1965

Final gameOctober 2, 1982

Seasons18 (1965–1982)

Baltimore Orioles 1965–1981; Los Angeles Dodgers 1982

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified batters

153

66.9

589

43.2

522

44.9

141

44.1

44.9

19.5

5.9

RBI

12.7

48.3

53.4

79.7

5.1

.270

52.5

OBP

.336

51.7

SLG

.326

18.6

OPS

.661

wRC+

105.3

41.5

OPS+

101.4

36.4

wOBA

.319

31.4

sWAR

3.3

60.2

of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

70.4

3.4

OPS+

69.1

2.3

sWAR

10.1

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
1965	11	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	89.2	90.3	.306	0.0
1966	8	20	19	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.158	.158	.211	.368	-7.4	6.1	.165	-0.2
1967	69	205	184	19	32	5	0	1	10	12	46	6	1	.174	.224	.217	.442	25.8	32.4	.210	-0.8
1968	145	531	472	40	98	13	0	2	21	40	114	10	1	.208	.272	.248	.520	57.2	59.8	.251	0.1
1969	150	594	530	76	152	17	4	2	50	53	54	14	6	.287	.351	.345	.696	98.9	97.3	.328	2.7
1970	145	527	459	53	100	6	5	1	36	52	65	13	2	.218	.303	.259	.562	59.6	58.0	.272	-0.1
1971	150	590	500	67	133	19	4	0	35	73	48	10	8	.266	.365	.320	.685	105.1	99.2	.330	3.2
1972	113	313	285	36	53	9	1	2	16	18	53	6	3	.186	.236	.246	.482	34.9	43.5	.231	-0.7
1973	154	544	470	60	106	15	1	0	27	49	54	13	6	.226	.302	.262	.564	64.9	62.5	.275	0.4
1974	155	570	493	54	111	14	4	5	36	51	69	17	7	.225	.298	.300	.598	79.5	77.0	.288	1.4
1975	152	502	442	44	100	11	1	3	27	36	53	16	4	.226	.286	.276	.562	67.2	65.3	.271	0.6
1976	153	589	522	66	141	22	2	1	40	51	64	27	17	.270	.336	.326	.661	105.3	101.4	.319	3.3
1977	144	458	402	39	83	13	4	2	30	43	68	15	8	.206	.287	.274	.560	61.9	59.1	.265	0.2
1978	135	408	348	39	74	13	0	0	16	40	55	6	6	.213	.299	.250	.549	64.9	61.8	.268	0.4
1979	101	242	198	28	33	6	2	0	9	29	33	5	1	.167	.273	.217	.490	44.4	37.7	.243	-0.3
1980	113	291	268	37	61	7	3	0	22	12	25	6	3	.228	.261	.276	.537	47.2	49.4	.250	-0.3
1981	64	158	139	9	23	3	2	1	10	12	25	2	1	.165	.242	.237	.479	39.6	39.8	.234	-0.2
1982	54	57	50	6	12	1	0	0	4	5	10	1	0	.240	.309	.260	.569	63.0	64.0	.270	0.2

Career totals

2,016

241st-most career G

6,602

5,784

676

1,316

175

RBI

389

576

839

167

487th-most career SB

.2275

OBP

.3000

SLG

.2796

OPS

.5796

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	RBI	TB
1969-08-18	BAL @ MIL Gameday	5	2	4	3	0	5	7
1971-09-10	TEX @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	1	7
1974-05-11	BAL @ CLE Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	0	6
1970-09-20	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	3	6
1969-06-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	2	6

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

8× Gold Glove1× 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.