MLB / Players

Roy White

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 27, 1943 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1965

Final gameSeptember 27, 1979

Seasons15 (1965–1979)

New York Yankees 1965–1979

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

143

28.1

606

45.9

519

32.2

139

27.4

41.8

12.3

42.5

RBI

84.2

71.2

71.9

21.9

.268

32.2

OBP

.358

66.4

SLG

.405

33.6

OPS

.762

35.6

wRC+

111.2

50.7

OPS+

110.6

47.9

wOBA

.344

41.1

sWAR

2.1

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.3

85.2

OPS+

121.6

81.7

sWAR

39.4

97.8

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
1965	14	47	42	7	14	2	0	0	3	4	7	2	1	.333	.404	.381	.785	136.0	126.7	.369	0.3
1966	115	356	316	39	71	13	2	7	20	37	43	14	7	.225	.308	.345	.653	94.2	90.9	.303	0.6
1967	70	238	214	22	48	8	0	2	18	19	25	10	4	.224	.287	.290	.577	74.9	74.2	.274	-0.1
1968	159	660	577	89	154	20	7	17	62	73	50	20	11	.267	.350	.414	.764	139.9	135.1	.354	4.6
1969	130	543	448	55	130	30	5	7	74	81	51	18	10	.290	.392	.426	.818	138.3	134.6	.380	3.7
1970	162	712	609	109	180	30	6	22	94	95	66	24	10	.296	.387	.473	.860	143.2	142.5	.388	5.3
1971	147	634	524	86	153	22	7	19	84	86	66	14	7	.292	.388	.469	.857	146.3	143.8	.390	4.9
1972	155	666	556	76	150	29	0	10	54	99	59	23	7	.270	.384	.376	.760	139.2	130.8	.363	4.4
1973	162	723	639	88	157	22	3	18	60	78	81	16	9	.246	.329	.374	.703	104.2	102.0	.329	2.0
1974	136	555	473	68	130	19	8	7	43	67	44	15	6	.275	.367	.393	.761	125.7	121.7	.357	2.6
1975	148	636	556	81	161	32	5	12	59	72	50	16	15	.290	.372	.430	.802	133.5	129.2	.374	4.0
1976	156	728	626	104	179	29	3	14	65	83	52	31	13	.286	.365	.409	.774	133.2	129.0	.365	4.6
1977	143	606	519	72	139	25	2	14	52	75	58	18	11	.268	.358	.405	.762	111.2	110.6	.344	2.1
1978	103	395	346	44	93	13	3	8	43	42	35	10	4	.269	.349	.393	.742	111.1	112.4	.338	1.2
1979	81	236	205	24	44	6	0	3	27	23	21	2	2	.215	.290	.288	.578	60.9	59.5	.271	-0.8

Career totals

1,881

346th-most career G

7,735

332nd-most career PA

6,650

372nd-most career AB

964

401st-most career R

1,803

407th-most career H

300

492nd-most career 2B

160

RBI

758

934

164th-most career BB

708

233

278th-most career SB

.2711

OBP

.3601

477th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4038

OPS

.7639

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
1976-08-18	TEX @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	5	0	10
1974-08-23	LAA @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	4	0	9
1976-08-14	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	1	0	9
1970-05-07	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1975-04-23	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	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

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.