Rafael Palmeiro

1986–2005 · 20 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1964

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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	Chicago Cubs	NL	22	78	73	9	18	4	0	3	12	4	6	1	.247	.295	.425	.720	0.1
1987	Chicago Cubs	NL	84	244	221	32	61	15	1	14	30	20	26	2	.276	.336	.543	.879	1.1
1988	Chicago Cubs	NL	152	629	580	75	178	41	5	8	53	38	34	12	.307	.349	.436	.785	2.8
1989	Texas Rangers	AL	156	632	559	76	154	23	4	8	64	63	48	4	.275	.354	.374	.728	2.2
1990	Texas Rangers	AL	154	651	598	72	191	35	6	14	89	40	59	3	.319	.361	.468	.829	3.2
1991	Texas Rangers	AL	159	714	631	115	203	49	3	26	88	68	72	4	.322	.389	.532	.922	6.0
1992	Texas Rangers	AL	159	701	608	84	163	27	4	22	85	72	83	2	.268	.352	.434	.786	3.9
1993	Texas Rangers	AL	160	686	597	124	176	40	2	37	105	73	85	22	.295	.371	.554	.926	5.8
1994	Baltimore Orioles	AL	111	498	436	82	139	32	0	23	76	54	63	7	.319	.392	.550	.942	3.2
1995	Baltimore Orioles	AL	143	624	554	89	172	30	2	39	104	62	65	3	.310	.380	.583	.963	5.1
1996	Baltimore Orioles	AL	162	732	626	110	181	40	2	39	142	95	96	8	.289	.381	.546	.927	4.6
1997GG	Baltimore Orioles	AL	158	692	614	95	156	24	2	38	110	67	109	5	.254	.329	.485	.815	2.1
1998GGSS	Baltimore Orioles	AL	162	709	619	98	183	36	1	43	121	79	91	11	.296	.379	.565	.945	5.4
1999GGSS	Texas Rangers	AL	158	674	565	96	183	30	1	47	148	97	69	2	.324	.420	.630	1.050	6.7
2000	Texas Rangers	AL	158	678	565	102	163	29	3	39	120	103	77	2	.288	.397	.558	.954	4.1
2001	Texas Rangers	AL	160	714	600	98	164	33	0	47	123	101	90	1	.273	.381	.563	.944	5.5
2002	Texas Rangers	AL	155	663	546	99	149	34	0	43	105	104	94	2	.273	.391	.571	.962	6.0
2003	Texas Rangers	AL	154	654	561	92	146	21	2	38	112	84	77	2	.260	.359	.508	.867	3.7
2004	Baltimore Orioles	AL	154	651	550	68	142	29	0	23	88	86	61	2	.258	.359	.436	.796	1.7
2005	Baltimore Orioles	AL	110	422	369	47	98	13	0	18	60	43	43	2	.266	.339	.447	.786	1.1
Career	20 seasons		2831	12046	10472	1663	3020	585	38	569	1835	1353	1348	97	.288	.374	.515	.889	74.4

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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