MLB / Players

Rico Petrocelli

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornJune 27, 1943 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1963

Final gameSeptember 14, 1976

Seasons13 (1963–1976)

Boston Red Sox 1963; Boston Red Sox 1965–1976

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

129

7.6

509

3.1

454

6.9

7.6

121

13.7

51.9

7.6

61.1

RBI

72.5

35.9

3.1

92.4

.267

38.2

OBP

.336

39.7

SLG

.421

61.1

OPS

.757

56.5

wRC+

112.0

44.3

OPS+

111.7

45.8

wOBA

.348

48.9

sWAR

2.6

48.9

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.2

59.9

OPS+

108.6

59.5

sWAR

33.3

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
1963	1	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.500	.750	97.6	100.8	.324	0.0
1965	103	363	323	38	75	15	2	13	33	36	71	0	2	.232	.309	.412	.721	95.4	96.6	.324	1.5
1966	139	572	522	58	124	20	1	18	59	41	99	1	1	.238	.295	.383	.678	83.2	84.6	.306	1.5
1967	142	556	491	53	127	24	2	17	66	49	93	2	4	.259	.330	.420	.750	112.2	112.8	.339	3.5
1968	123	451	406	41	95	17	2	12	46	31	73	0	1	.234	.292	.374	.667	94.8	95.5	.308	2.0
1969	154	643	535	92	159	32	2	40	97	98	68	3	5	.297	.403	.589	.992	169.2	168.4	.438	8.3
1970	157	664	583	82	152	31	3	29	103	67	82	1	1	.261	.334	.473	.807	112.8	114.2	.360	4.1
1971	158	661	553	82	139	24	4	28	89	91	108	2	0	.251	.354	.461	.815	127.1	123.9	.373	4.7
1972	147	607	521	62	125	15	2	15	75	78	91	0	1	.240	.339	.363	.702	107.7	104.7	.331	2.9
1973	100	407	356	44	87	13	1	13	45	47	64	0	0	.244	.333	.396	.729	101.4	100.4	.337	1.7
1974	129	509	454	53	121	23	1	15	76	48	74	1	0	.267	.336	.421	.757	112.0	111.7	.348	2.6
1975	115	454	402	31	96	15	1	7	59	41	66	0	2	.239	.310	.333	.644	76.7	76.6	.304	0.5
1976	85	279	240	17	51	7	1	3	24	34	36	0	5	.213	.307	.288	.594	66.7	67.5	.287	0.0

Career totals

1,553

6,170

5,390

653

1,352

237

210

353rd-most career HR

RBI

773

661

434th-most career BB

926

475th-most career SO

.2508

OBP

.3324

SLG

.4199

OPS

.7523

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1969-05-11	BOS @ LAA Gameday	3	2	2	2	4	0	8
1974-06-02	CWS @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	2	4	1	8
1965-08-24	TEX @ BOS Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	0	8
1967-05-14	DET @ BOS Gameday	3	3	2	2	3	0	8
1969-06-08	KC @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	2	3	1	8

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

2× 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.