MLB / Players

Sal Bando

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 13, 1944 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1966

Final gameOctober 3, 1981

Seasons16 (1966–1981)

Kansas City Athletics 1966–1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1976; Milwaukee Brewers 1977–1981

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

130

543

20.1

476

18.7

10.1

117

3.6

4.3

33.1

28.8

RBI

10.1

56.8

86.3

12.2

97.8

.246

7.9

OBP

.330

31.7

SLG

.345

9.4

OPS

.674

15.1

wRC+

86.6

20.1

OPS+

83.6

15.1

wOBA

.313

18.7

sWAR

0.9

15.1

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.3

82.3

OPS+

120.1

79.4

sWAR

53.1

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
1966	11	26	24	1	7	1	1	0	1	1	3	0	0	.292	.320	.417	.737	113.6	112.0	.332	0.1
1967	47	152	130	11	25	3	2	0	6	16	24	1	0	.192	.295	.246	.541	69.7	63.6	.269	0.1
1968	162	674	605	67	152	25	5	9	67	51	78	13	4	.251	.314	.354	.668	105.7	105.5	.311	3.1
1969	162	734	609	106	171	25	3	31	113	111	82	1	4	.281	.400	.484	.885	157.7	152.6	.408	7.9
1970	155	636	502	93	132	20	2	20	75	118	88	6	10	.263	.407	.430	.837	144.4	136.4	.391	5.8
1971	153	643	538	75	146	23	1	24	94	86	55	3	7	.271	.377	.452	.828	141.2	138.9	.379	5.6
1972	152	631	535	64	126	20	3	15	77	78	55	3	1	.236	.341	.368	.709	117.2	118.2	.330	3.7
1973	162	689	592	97	170	32	3	29	98	82	84	4	2	.287	.375	.498	.873	152.6	152.6	.395	6.9
1974	146	603	498	84	121	21	2	22	103	86	79	2	3	.243	.352	.426	.778	132.5	131.9	.359	4.7
1975	160	658	562	64	129	24	1	15	78	87	80	7	1	.230	.337	.356	.693	104.9	99.9	.330	3.0
1976	158	640	550	75	132	18	2	27	84	76	74	20	6	.240	.335	.427	.762	130.2	127.5	.357	4.8
1977	159	666	580	65	145	27	3	17	82	75	89	4	2	.250	.336	.395	.731	101.5	99.4	.332	2.4
1978	152	629	540	85	154	20	6	17	78	72	52	3	2	.285	.371	.439	.810	131.0	128.0	.370	4.6
1979	130	543	476	57	117	14	3	9	43	57	42	2	0	.246	.330	.345	.674	86.6	83.6	.313	0.9
1980	78	291	254	28	50	12	1	5	31	29	35	5	3	.197	.278	.311	.589	63.2	64.1	.273	-0.4
1981	32	73	65	10	13	4	0	2	9	6	3	1	1	.200	.268	.354	.621	77.7	82.6	.283	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	3.0	6.00	1.000	0.00	2.77	65.9	70.0	0.9

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

2,019

238th-most career G

8,288

236th-most career PA

7,060

296th-most career AB

982

382nd-most career R

1,790

416th-most career H

289

242

274th-most career HR

RBI

1,039

271st-most career RBI

1,031

115th-most career BB

923

483rd-most career SO

.2535

OBP

.3522

SLG

.4081

OPS

.7603

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

6.000

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

0.00

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
1968-07-07	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	4	0	10
1977-05-13	DET @ MIL Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	2	0	10
1969-07-20	ATH @ LAA Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	4	0	9
1973-09-01	ATH @ KC Gameday	4	3	4	2	1	4	0	9
1969-04-27	ATH @ MIL Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	7	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1979-08-29	MIL @ KC Gameday	3.0	3	2	2	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

4× 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.