Bernie Williams

1991–2006 · 16 seasons · Bats both sides, throws right · Born 1968

More than one Major Leaguer has this name. This page is the Bernie Williams who played 1991–2006. The other one:

Bernie Williams, 1970–1974 4 seasons

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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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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1991	New York Yankees	AL	85	374	320	43	76	19	4	3	34	48	57	10	.238	.336	.350	.686	1.6
1992	New York Yankees	AL	62	293	261	39	73	14	2	5	26	29	36	7	.280	.354	.406	.760	2.4
1993	New York Yankees	AL	139	628	567	67	152	31	4	12	68	53	106	9	.268	.333	.400	.734	2.3
1994	New York Yankees	AL	108	475	408	80	118	29	1	12	57	61	54	16	.289	.384	.453	.837	3.3
1995	New York Yankees	AL	144	648	563	93	173	29	9	18	82	75	98	8	.307	.392	.487	.878	6.5
1996	New York Yankees	AL	143	641	551	108	168	26	7	29	102	82	72	17	.305	.391	.535	.926	5.4
1997GG	New York Yankees	AL	129	591	509	107	167	35	6	21	100	73	80	15	.328	.408	.544	.952	5.0
1998GG	New York Yankees	AL	128	578	499	101	169	30	5	26	97	74	81	15	.339	.422	.575	.997	6.6
1999GG	New York Yankees	AL	158	697	591	116	202	28	6	25	115	100	95	9	.342	.435	.536	.971	6.5
2000GG	New York Yankees	AL	141	616	537	108	165	37	6	30	121	71	84	13	.307	.391	.566	.957	5.7
2001	New York Yankees	AL	146	633	540	102	166	38	0	26	94	78	67	11	.307	.395	.522	.917	5.3
2002SS	New York Yankees	AL	154	699	612	102	204	37	2	19	102	83	97	8	.333	.415	.493	.908	6.3
2003	New York Yankees	AL	119	521	445	77	117	19	1	15	64	71	61	5	.263	.367	.411	.778	2.7
2004	New York Yankees	AL	148	651	561	105	147	29	1	22	70	85	96	1	.262	.360	.435	.795	2.6
2005	New York Yankees	AL	141	546	485	53	121	19	1	12	64	53	75	1	.249	.321	.367	.688	0.6
2006	New York Yankees	AL	131	462	420	65	118	29	0	12	61	33	53	2	.281	.332	.436	.768	0.7
Career	16 seasons		2076	9053	7869	1366	2336	449	55	287	1257	1069	1212	147	.297	.384	.477	.861	63.3

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: 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.