Thad Bosley
California Angels 1977; Chicago White Sox 1978–1980; Milwaukee Brewers 1981; Seattle Mariners 1982; Chicago Cubs 1983–1986; Kansas City Royals 1987; California Angels 1988; Kansas City Royals 1988; Texas Rangers 1989–1990
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 58 | 235 | 212 | 19 | 63 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 16 | 32 | 5 | 4 | .297 | .346 | .363 | .710 | 100.5 | 98.0 | .326 | 0.8 |
| 1978 | 66 | 236 | 219 | 25 | 59 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 32 | 12 | 11 | .269 | .308 | .329 | .636 | 76.5 | 78.9 | .294 | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 36 | 86 | 77 | 13 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 1 | .312 | .384 | .390 | .773 | 116.0 | 109.9 | .359 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 70 | 162 | 147 | 12 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 27 | 3 | 2 | .224 | .272 | .279 | .551 | 44.9 | 52.3 | .249 | -0.7 |
| 1981 | 42 | 112 | 105 | 11 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 1 | .229 | .270 | .248 | .518 | 53.2 | 54.3 | .249 | -0.4 |
| 1982 | 22 | 50 | 46 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | .174 | .240 | .196 | .436 | 17.8 | 20.1 | .212 | -0.4 |
| 1983 | 43 | 83 | 72 | 12 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 1 | .292 | .373 | .458 | .832 | 128.2 | 125.5 | .379 | 0.5 |
| 1984 | 55 | 112 | 98 | 17 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 22 | 5 | 1 | .296 | .375 | .418 | .793 | 117.5 | 115.5 | .365 | 0.4 |
| 1985 | 108 | 202 | 180 | 25 | 59 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 27 | 20 | 29 | 5 | 1 | .328 | .391 | .511 | .902 | 146.1 | 140.0 | .408 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 87 | 139 | 120 | 15 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 24 | 3 | 0 | .275 | .370 | .350 | .720 | 96.0 | 93.6 | .336 | 0.2 |
| 1987 | 80 | 152 | 140 | 13 | 39 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .279 | .318 | .357 | .675 | 74.3 | 78.2 | .296 | -0.2 |
| 1988 | 50 | 109 | 96 | 10 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .260 | .306 | .313 | .618 | 71.9 | 76.3 | .281 | -0.2 |
| 1989 | 37 | 44 | 40 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .225 | .273 | .350 | .623 | 70.5 | 73.7 | .285 | -0.1 |
| 1990 | 30 | 33 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .138 | .242 | .241 | .484 | 26.7 | 36.1 | .222 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-08-12 | WSH @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1978-08-27 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1978-05-29 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1979-09-12 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1977-09-17 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.