MLB / Players

Roger Maris

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 197 lb

BornSeptember 10, 1934 · Hibbing, MN, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1957

Final gameSeptember 29, 1968

Seasons12 (1957–1968)

Cleveland Indians 1957–1958; Kansas City Athletics 1958–1959; New York Yankees 1960–1966; St. Louis Cardinals 1967–1968

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

141

14.9

584

31.9

513

29.8

68.1

144

41.5

5.3

8.5

78.7

RBI

52.1

69.1

47.9

30.9

88.3

.281

59.6

OBP

.364

72.3

SLG

.464

68.1

OPS

.828

73.4

wRC+

134.4

77.7

OPS+

129.2

74.5

wOBA

.372

75.5

sWAR

3.9

64.9

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 508 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

128.8

89.5

OPS+

128.2

88.8

sWAR

34.0

97.1

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
1957	116	424	358	61	84	9	5	14	51	60	79	8	4	.235	.344	.405	.749	107.6	106.0	.344	1.8
1958	150	637	583	87	140	19	4	28	80	45	85	4	2	.240	.294	.431	.725	92.9	96.1	.322	1.1
1959	122	498	433	69	118	21	7	16	72	58	53	2	1	.273	.359	.464	.824	121.8	121.7	.369	2.4
1960	136	578	499	98	141	18	7	39	112	70	65	2	2	.283	.371	.581	.952	159.0	161.7	.416	5.5
1961	161	698	590	132	159	16	4	61	142	94	67	0	0	.269	.372	.620	.993	164.8	168.9	.428	7.3
1962	157	687	590	92	151	34	1	33	100	87	78	1	0	.256	.356	.485	.840	127.6	129.5	.370	4.2
1963	90	351	312	53	84	14	1	23	53	35	40	1	0	.269	.346	.542	.887	148.8	148.1	.386	2.8
1964	141	584	513	86	144	12	2	26	71	62	78	3	0	.281	.364	.464	.828	134.4	129.2	.372	3.9
1965	46	186	155	22	37	7	0	8	27	29	29	0	0	.239	.357	.439	.795	132.1	127.0	.364	1.1
1966	119	391	348	37	81	9	2	13	43	36	60	0	0	.233	.307	.382	.689	100.3	100.5	.311	0.8
1967	125	472	410	64	107	18	7	9	55	52	61	0	0	.261	.346	.405	.751	122.3	117.6	.348	2.2
1968	100	340	310	25	79	18	2	5	45	24	38	0	0	.255	.307	.374	.681	106.9	106.8	.316	0.9

Career totals

1,463

5,846

5,101

826

1,325

195

275

209th-most career HR

RBI

851

462nd-most career RBI

652

445th-most career BB

733

.2598

OBP

.3454

SLG

.4762

251st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8216

340th-highest career OPS

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
1958-08-03	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	4	4	1	1	2	5	0	13
1960-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	4	1	11
1962-04-29	NYY @ TEX Gameday	5	2	4	3	0	1	4	0	10
1962-07-03	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	4	1	10
1961-09-02	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-09-25	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-09-26	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1958-05-22	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1958-05-23	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1958-06-21	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.

Honors

2× Most Valuable Player1× Gold Glove4× 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.