Gary Sheffield

1988–2009 · 22 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1968

5× Silver Slugger

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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
1988	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	24	89	80	12	19	1	0	4	12	7	7	3	.238	.295	.400	.695	0.0
1989	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	95	405	368	34	91	18	0	5	32	27	33	10	.247	.303	.337	.640	0.5
1990	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	125	547	487	67	143	30	1	10	67	44	41	25	.294	.350	.421	.771	4.0
1991	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	50	203	175	25	34	12	2	2	22	19	15	5	.194	.277	.320	.597	-0.6
1992SS	San Diego Padres	NL	146	618	557	87	184	34	3	33	100	48	40	5	.330	.385	.580	.965	8.6
1993	San Diego Padres	NL	140	557	494	67	145	20	5	20	73	47	64	17	.294	.361	.476	.837	3.2
1994	Florida Marlins	NL	87	384	322	61	89	16	1	27	78	51	50	12	.276	.380	.584	.964	2.5
1995	Florida Marlins	NL	63	274	213	46	69	8	0	16	46	55	45	19	.324	.467	.587	1.054	3.1
1996SS	Florida Marlins	NL	161	677	519	118	163	33	1	42	120	142	66	16	.314	.465	.624	1.090	6.6
1997	Florida Marlins	NL	135	582	444	86	111	22	1	21	71	121	79	11	.250	.424	.446	.870	3.4
1998	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	130	549	437	73	132	27	2	22	85	95	46	22	.302	.428	.524	.952	4.2
1999	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	152	663	549	103	165	20	0	34	101	101	64	11	.301	.407	.523	.930	3.7
2000	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	141	612	501	105	163	24	3	43	109	101	71	4	.325	.438	.643	1.081	5.5
2001	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	143	618	515	98	160	28	2	36	100	94	67	10	.311	.417	.583	1.000	4.8
2002	Atlanta Braves	NL	135	579	492	82	151	26	0	25	84	72	53	12	.307	.404	.512	.916	4.3
2003SS	Atlanta Braves	NL	155	678	576	126	190	37	2	39	132	86	55	18	.330	.419	.604	1.023	7.1
2004SS	New York Yankees	AL	154	684	573	117	166	30	1	36	121	92	83	5	.290	.393	.534	.927	5.1
2005SS	New York Yankees	AL	154	675	584	104	170	27	0	34	123	78	76	10	.291	.379	.512	.891	4.6
2006	New York Yankees	AL	39	166	151	22	45	5	0	6	25	13	16	5	.298	.355	.450	.806	0.6
2007	Detroit Tigers	AL	133	593	494	107	131	20	1	25	75	84	71	22	.265	.378	.462	.839	3.7
2008	Detroit Tigers	AL	114	482	418	52	94	16	0	19	57	58	83	9	.225	.326	.400	.725	1.2
2009	New York Mets	NL	100	312	268	44	74	13	2	10	43	40	46	2	.276	.372	.451	.823	1.1
Career	22 seasons		2576	10947	9217	1636	2689	467	27	509	1676	1475	1171	253	.292	.397	.514	.911	76.7

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), NL (National League).

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