Melvin Bunch
Kansas City Royals 1995; Seattle Mariners 1999
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 25 | 14 | 19 | 11 | 40.0 | 5.63 | 1.400 | 4.28 | 6.82 | 144.7 | 83.7 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10.0 | 11.70 | 2.700 | 3.60 | 8.40 | 175.6 | 40.9 | -0.6 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-08-03 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995-05-06 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995-07-16 | KC @ BAL Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| 1995-08-09 | LAA @ KC Gameday | 3.2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1999-06-25 | TEX @ SEA Gameday | 3.1 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
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.