Steve Finley

1989–2007 · 19 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1965

5× Gold Glove

JavaScript is switched off, so the extra columns cannot be unfolded. Every season below is already on the page and every number in it is real.

Hitting: 17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos. Pitching: 14 of 18 columns. Folded away: HR, BFP, CG, SHO.

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Hitting

Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1989	Baltimore Orioles	AL	81	241	217	35	54	5	2	2	25	15	30	17	.249	.298	.318	.616	0.4
1990	Baltimore Orioles	AL	142	513	464	46	119	16	4	3	37	32	53	22	.256	.304	.328	.632	0.6
1991	Houston Astros	NL	159	656	596	84	170	28	10	8	54	42	65	34	.285	.331	.406	.737	2.5
1992	Houston Astros	NL	162	686	607	84	177	29	13	5	55	58	63	44	.292	.355	.407	.762	5.5
1993	Houston Astros	NL	142	585	545	69	145	15	13	8	44	28	65	19	.266	.304	.385	.689	1.2
1994	Houston Astros	NL	94	417	373	64	103	16	5	11	33	28	52	13	.276	.329	.434	.764	1.5
1995GG	San Diego Padres	NL	139	630	562	104	167	23	8	10	44	59	62	36	.297	.366	.420	.786	2.5
1996GG	San Diego Padres	NL	161	721	655	126	195	45	9	30	95	56	87	22	.298	.354	.531	.885	5.2
1997	San Diego Padres	NL	143	615	560	101	146	26	5	28	92	43	92	15	.261	.313	.475	.788	3.3
1998	San Diego Padres	NL	159	674	619	92	154	40	6	14	67	45	103	12	.249	.301	.401	.702	1.2
1999GG	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	156	663	590	100	156	32	10	34	103	63	94	8	.264	.336	.525	.861	3.9
2000GG	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	152	623	539	100	151	27	5	35	96	65	87	12	.280	.361	.544	.904	3.7
2001	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	140	548	495	66	136	27	4	14	73	47	67	11	.275	.337	.430	.767	1.4
2002	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	150	577	505	82	145	24	4	25	89	65	73	16	.287	.370	.499	.869	4.0
2003	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	147	582	516	82	148	24	10	22	70	57	94	15	.287	.363	.500	.863	2.6
2004GG	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	162	706	628	92	170	28	1	36	94	61	82	9	.271	.333	.490	.823	3.2
2005	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	AL	112	440	406	41	90	20	3	12	54	26	71	8	.222	.271	.374	.645	0.2
2006	San Francisco Giants	NL	139	481	426	66	105	21	12	6	40	46	55	7	.246	.320	.394	.714	1.1
2007	Colorado Rockies	NL	43	102	94	9	17	3	0	1	2	8	4	0	.181	.245	.245	.490	-0.7
Career	19 seasons		2583	10460	9397	1443	2548	449	124	304	1167	844	1299	320	.271	.335	.442	.777	43.1

Pitching

Season	Team	Lg	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	SO	BB	H	ER	ERA	WHIP	WAR	FIP
2001	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.00	1.00	0.0	9.05
Career	1 season		1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.00	1.00	0.0	—

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. On a season where this player both batted and pitched, the WAR column is left unshaded either way: the data keeps one WAR ranking for the year and does not say which of the two it belongs to, and a guess here would put a league lead on the wrong line.

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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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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