MLB / Players

Wally Bunker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 197 lb

BornJanuary 25, 1945 · Seattle, WA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1963

Final gameMay 26, 1971

Seasons9 (1963–1971)

Baltimore Orioles 1963–1968; Kansas City Royals 1969–1971

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified pitchers

24.4

25.6

28.2

52.6

SHO

16.7

198

61.5

62.8

84.6

130

29.5

3.8

222.7

44.9

ERA

3.23

57.7

WHIP

1.168

75.6

K/9

5.25

32.1

FIP

3.78

24.4

FIP-

103.3

25.6

ERA+

113.0

62.8

sWAR

3.4

of 79 qualified 1969 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.3

35.5

sWAR

9.7

86.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1963	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	199.0	188.7	.454	-0.4
1964	29	84	72	6	5	2	2	10	32	0	.069	.183	.097	.280	-19.6	-18.4	.155	4.2
1965	34	65	55	4	4	0	5	7	27	0	.073	.177	.073	.250	-27.3	-25.9	.143	1.9
1966	30	55	48	4	5	3	2	4	22	0	.104	.173	.167	.340	-5.8	-0.6	.167	-0.3
1967	29	27	26	1	2	0	0	0	13	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-77.1	-54.0	.071	-0.4
1968	18	22	18	1	2	0	0	2	10	0	.111	.200	.111	.311	-7.7	-2.8	.168	1.2
1969	35	82	70	1	10	3	7	5	23	1	.143	.200	.186	.386	1.4	8.4	.190	3.4
1970	24	39	31	3	2	0	1	7	13	0	.065	.237	.065	.301	-0.9	-12.3	.187	0.5
1971	7	10	9	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.000	.100	.000	.100	-79.8	-69.2	.075	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1963	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	10	6	3	1	1	4.0	13.50	3.250	2.25	7.46	214.9	25.7	-0.4
1964	29	29	19	5	0	12	1	161	64	62	96	17	214.0	2.69	1.042	4.04	3.51	98.3	132.5	4.2
1965	34	27	10	8	2	4	1	170	71	58	84	16	189.0	3.38	1.206	4.00	3.59	103.4	102.8	1.9
1966	29	24	10	6	0	3	0	151	68	48	89	16	142.7	4.29	1.395	5.61	3.70	109.6	78.7	-0.3
1967	29	9	3	7	1	1	0	83	40	31	51	7	88.0	4.09	1.295	5.22	3.42	107.3	77.9	-0.4
1968	18	10	2	0	0	2	1	59	19	14	44	4	71.0	2.41	1.028	5.58	2.35	79.7	122.4	1.2
1969	35	31	12	11	2	10	1	198	80	62	130	29	222.7	3.23	1.168	5.25	3.78	103.3	113.0	3.4
1970	24	15	2	11	0	2	1	109	57	50	59	16	121.7	4.22	1.307	4.36	4.40	118.4	88.2	0.5
1971	7	6	2	3	0	0	0	35	18	6	15	7	32.3	5.01	1.268	4.18	4.80	140.7	68.1	-0.4

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

207

386

331

RBI

145

.0937

OBP

.1826

SLG

.1178

OPS

.3004

Pitching

G (P)

206

152

SHO

1,085

SO (P)

569

BB allowed

334

ERA

3.508

454th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2070

182nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.72

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	RBI	BB	TB
1969-08-18	NYY @ KC Gameday	4	0	2	1	3	0	3
1966-06-10	BOS @ BAL Gameday	2	2	2	1	2	2	3
1964-05-10	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1969-09-16	MIL @ KC Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	1	2
1964-09-20	LAA @ BAL Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1969-06-03	TEX @ KC Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	3	10	1
1967-06-19	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5.0	2	4	3	4	9	2
1969-06-16	ATH @ KC Gameday	10.0	4	2	2	0	8	2
1964-09-30	TEX @ BAL Gameday	9.0	10	4	3	0	8	0
1969-07-13	CWS @ KC Gameday	6.2	11	4	4	0	8	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.