MLB / Players

Paul Blair

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 168 lb

BornFebruary 1, 1944 · Cushing, OK, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1964

Final gameJune 20, 1980

Seasons17 (1964–1980)

Baltimore Orioles 1964–1976; New York Yankees 1977–1978; Cincinnati Reds 1979; New York Yankees 1979–1980

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

151

62.6

615

58.8

552

61.8

66.4

144

48.1

71.8

66.4

RBI

49.6

34.4

63.4

86.3

21.4

.261

29.8

OBP

.313

14.5

SLG

.417

58.8

OPS

.730

36.6

wRC+

113.2

51.1

OPS+

113.7

52.7

wOBA

.336

32.8

sWAR

3.4

67.2

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.4

34.5

OPS+

97.5

36.8

sWAR

22.8

94.6

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
1964	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.3	-100.0	.000	0.0
1965	119	409	364	49	85	19	2	5	25	32	52	8	5	.234	.302	.338	.640	81.3	81.6	.295	0.7
1966	133	325	303	35	84	20	2	6	33	15	36	5	6	.277	.309	.416	.725	109.3	108.8	.325	1.7
1967	151	619	552	72	162	27	12	11	64	50	68	8	6	.293	.353	.446	.799	139.6	137.0	.364	5.3
1968	141	467	421	48	89	22	1	7	38	37	60	4	2	.211	.277	.318	.595	78.7	81.5	.279	0.7
1969	150	685	625	102	178	32	5	26	76	40	72	20	6	.285	.327	.477	.804	124.6	124.6	.365	4.6
1970	133	548	480	79	128	24	2	18	65	56	93	24	11	.267	.344	.438	.782	118.5	116.0	.357	3.3
1971	141	555	516	75	135	24	8	10	44	32	94	14	11	.262	.306	.397	.703	100.9	101.8	.324	2.2
1972	142	514	477	47	111	20	8	8	49	25	78	7	8	.233	.267	.358	.626	80.5	84.9	.291	0.9
1973	146	554	500	73	140	25	3	10	64	43	72	18	8	.280	.334	.402	.736	108.3	109.4	.337	2.7
1974	151	615	552	77	144	27	4	17	62	43	59	27	9	.261	.313	.417	.730	113.2	113.7	.336	3.4
1975	140	487	440	51	96	13	4	5	31	25	82	17	11	.218	.257	.300	.557	60.2	62.8	.261	-0.4
1976	145	413	375	29	74	16	0	3	16	22	49	15	6	.197	.245	.264	.509	50.6	54.5	.242	-0.7
1977	83	183	164	20	43	4	3	4	25	9	16	3	2	.262	.303	.396	.700	88.7	91.8	.310	0.2
1978	75	136	125	10	22	5	0	2	13	9	17	1	1	.176	.231	.264	.495	38.3	41.8	.234	-0.5
1979	77	160	145	7	22	4	1	2	15	11	28	0	0	.152	.209	.234	.443	8.8	21.1	.200	-1.3
1980	12	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.9	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

1,947

297th-most career G

6,673

6,042

776

1,513

282

134

RBI

620

449

877

171

475th-most career SB

.2504

OBP

.3024

SLG

.3818

OPS

.6842

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1970-04-29	BAL @ CWS Gameday	6	3	3	0	3	6	0	12
1969-10-06	BAL @ MIN Gameday	6	1	5	2	1	5	0	10
1970-09-24	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	3	0	10
1969-05-14	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1970-08-04	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	1	9

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 Glove2× 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.