Al Oliver

1968–1985 · 18 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1946

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
1968Pittsburgh PiratesNL488110000040.125.125.125.250-0.1
1969Pittsburgh PiratesNL12950246355132192177021388.285.333.445.7781.8
1970Pittsburgh PiratesNL15160955163149335128335351.270.326.414.7401.1
1971Pittsburgh PiratesNL14357352969149317146427724.282.317.446.7634.1
1972Pittsburgh PiratesNL14061256588176274128934442.312.352.437.7895.4
1973Pittsburgh PiratesNL15869065490191387209922526.292.316.463.7793.3
1974Pittsburgh PiratesNL1476616179619838121185335810.321.358.475.8326.2
1975Pittsburgh PiratesNL15566662890176398188425734.280.309.454.7633.7
1976Pittsburgh PiratesNL12148144362143225126126296.323.363.476.8395.2
1977Pittsburgh PiratesNL154622568751752961982403813.308.353.481.8342.7
1978Texas RangersAL13356852565170355148931418.324.358.490.8483.7
1979Texas RangersAL13653849269159284127634344.323.367.470.8363.2
1980SSTexas RangersAL163709656962094331911739475.319.357.480.8384.0
1981SSTexas RangersAL1024484215313029145524283.309.348.411.7592.7
1982SSMontreal ExposNL160687617902044322210961595.331.392.514.9065.1
1983Montreal ExposNL1576646147018438388444441.300.347.410.7571.7
1984San Francisco GiantsNL1194604323613026204827363.301.343.370.7140.4
1985Toronto Blue JaysAL96280266216711153112241.252.286.357.643-0.4
Career18 seasons2368977890491189274352977219132653575684.303.348.451.79953.9

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

Any shaded cell or chip will explain itself. Point at one, or tab to it and it opens on focus, and it names the league, the season and the statistic in full. On a touchscreen, tap it once to open and once more to close.

Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League), AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.