Roy Foster
HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb
BornJuly 29, 1945 · Bixby, OK, USA
MLB debutApril 7, 1970
Final gameOctober 1, 1972
Seasons3 (1970–1972)
Cleveland Indians 1970–1972
Percentile snapshot
1970 season — qualified batters
of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 139 | 545 | 477 | 66 | 128 | 26 | 0 | 23 | 60 | 54 | 75 | 3 | 3 | .268 | .357 | .468 | .824 | 124.1 | 121.1 | .374 | 2.7 |
| 1971 | 125 | 439 | 396 | 51 | 97 | 21 | 1 | 18 | 45 | 35 | 48 | 6 | 1 | .245 | .314 | .439 | .754 | 105.1 | 104.7 | .345 | 1.2 |
| 1972 | 73 | 169 | 143 | 19 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 23 | 0 | 2 | .224 | .325 | .336 | .661 | 96.2 | 94.4 | .315 | 0.2 |
Career totals
G
337
PA
1,153
AB
1,016
R
136
H
257
2B
51
3B
1
HR
45
RBI
118
BB
110
SO
146
SB
9
BA
.2530
OBP
.3359
SLG
.4380
OPS
.7739
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-08-29 | LAA @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1971-06-20 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1970-06-20 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1970-06-16 | LAA @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1970-04-14 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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.