Benito Santiago

1986–2005 · 20 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1965

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1986	San Diego Padres	NL	17	65	62	10	18	2	0	3	6	2	12	0	.290	.308	.468	.775	0.4
1987ROYSS	San Diego Padres	NL	146	572	546	64	164	33	2	18	79	16	112	21	.300	.324	.467	.791	3.9
1988GGSS	San Diego Padres	NL	139	527	492	49	122	22	2	10	46	24	82	15	.248	.282	.362	.643	2.0
1989GG	San Diego Padres	NL	129	494	462	50	109	16	3	16	62	26	89	11	.236	.277	.387	.664	2.2
1990GGSS	San Diego Padres	NL	100	382	344	42	93	8	5	11	53	27	55	5	.270	.323	.419	.741	2.4
1991SS	San Diego Padres	NL	152	614	580	60	155	22	3	17	87	23	114	8	.267	.296	.403	.700	2.8
1992	San Diego Padres	NL	106	411	386	37	97	21	0	10	42	21	52	2	.251	.287	.383	.671	1.5
1993	Florida Marlins	NL	139	515	469	49	108	19	6	13	50	37	88	10	.230	.291	.380	.671	1.1
1994	Florida Marlins	NL	101	369	337	35	92	14	2	11	41	25	57	1	.273	.322	.424	.746	1.9
1995	Cincinnati Reds	NL	81	296	266	40	76	20	0	11	44	24	48	2	.286	.351	.485	.836	2.1
1996	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	136	533	481	71	127	21	2	30	85	49	104	2	.264	.332	.503	.835	3.4
1997	Toronto Blue Jays	AL	97	366	341	31	83	10	0	13	42	17	80	1	.243	.279	.387	.667	0.5
1998	Toronto Blue Jays	AL	15	30	29	3	9	5	0	0	4	1	6	0	.310	.333	.483	.816	0.2
1999	Chicago Cubs	NL	109	386	350	28	87	18	3	7	36	32	71	1	.249	.313	.377	.691	0.6
2000	Cincinnati Reds	NL	89	277	252	22	66	11	1	8	45	19	45	2	.262	.310	.409	.719	0.5
2001	San Francisco Giants	NL	133	515	477	39	125	25	4	6	45	23	78	5	.262	.295	.369	.664	1.0
2002	San Francisco Giants	NL	126	517	478	56	133	24	5	16	74	27	73	4	.278	.315	.450	.765	2.6
2003	San Francisco Giants	NL	108	434	401	53	112	21	2	11	56	29	69	0	.279	.329	.424	.753	1.9
2004	Kansas City Royals	AL	49	189	175	15	48	10	0	6	23	8	32	1	.274	.312	.434	.746	0.7
2005	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	6	23	23	1	6	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	.261	.261	.391	.652	0.0
Career	20 seasons		1978	7515	6951	755	1830	323	41	217	920	430	1270	91	.263	.310	.415	.725	31.6

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.

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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).

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