Milt Bolling
Boston Red Sox 1952–1957; Washington Senators 1957; Detroit Tigers 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 11 | 39 | 36 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .222 | .282 | .333 | .615 | 59.1 | 65.8 | .290 | 0.0 |
| 1953 | 109 | 362 | 323 | 30 | 85 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 23 | 41 | 1 | 4 | .263 | .318 | .353 | .671 | 73.9 | 77.1 | .313 | 0.6 |
| 1954 | 113 | 437 | 370 | 42 | 92 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 36 | 47 | 55 | 2 | 4 | .249 | .337 | .368 | .705 | 85.8 | 85.8 | .333 | 1.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -12.4 | 4.6 | .187 | 0.0 |
| 1956 | 45 | 141 | 118 | 19 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 20 | 0 | 1 | .212 | .319 | .347 | .666 | 67.1 | 68.6 | .314 | 0.0 |
| 1957 | 92 | 305 | 278 | 29 | 63 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 59 | 2 | 2 | .227 | .276 | .320 | .596 | 57.3 | 61.3 | .277 | -0.3 |
| 1958 | 24 | 37 | 31 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .194 | .306 | .258 | .564 | 56.8 | 52.8 | .277 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-05-31 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 1954-09-05 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1953-07-17 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1956-08-19 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1953-04-16 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-06-17 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-07-26 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-07-24 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-19 | BOS @ ATH 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.