MLB / Players

Steve Boros

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb
BornSeptember 3, 1936 · Flint, MI, USA
MLB debutJune 19, 1957
Final gameMay 8, 1965
Seasons7 (1957–1965)

Detroit Tigers 1957–1958; Detroit Tigers 1961–1962; Chicago Cubs 1963; Cincinnati Reds 1964–1965

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
3.9
76.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19572442414610021800.146.167.171.337-23.5-7.8.159-0.5
19586220000000000.000.000.000.000-136.5-100.0.000-0.1
196111648539651107182562684242.270.382.364.746105.9100.1.3502.1
196211641735646811411647536231.228.331.407.73897.096.0.3341.4
196341104909195137121902.211.304.389.69397.693.6.3200.1
19641174233703195123231474341.257.342.322.66482.886.4.3000.7
196520000000000000.0

Career totals

G
422
PA
1,473
AB
1,255
R
141
H
308
2B
50
3B
7
HR
26
RBI
149
BB
181
SO
174
SB
11
BA
.2454
OBP
.3438
SLG
.3586
OPS
.7024

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1962-08-06DET @ CLE Gameday3330033112
1961-05-21DET @ ATH Gameday513101407
1961-06-11TEX @ DET Gameday423001326
1962-05-16MIN @ DET Gameday413001106
1962-07-14DET @ CWS Gameday422101106

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.