Wade Boggs

1982–1999 · 18 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1958

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
1982	Boston Red Sox	AL	104	381	338	51	118	14	1	5	44	35	21	1	.349	.406	.441	.847	3.8
1983SS	Boston Red Sox	AL	153	685	582	100	210	44	7	5	74	92	36	3	.361	.444	.486	.931	9.1
1984	Boston Red Sox	AL	158	726	625	109	203	31	4	6	55	89	44	3	.325	.407	.416	.823	7.1
1985	Boston Red Sox	AL	161	758	653	107	240	42	3	8	78	96	61	2	.368	.450	.478	.928	9.5
1986SS	Boston Red Sox	AL	149	693	580	107	207	47	2	8	71	105	44	0	.357	.453	.486	.939	7.9
1987SS	Boston Red Sox	AL	147	667	551	108	200	40	6	24	89	105	48	1	.363	.461	.588	1.049	8.6
1988SS	Boston Red Sox	AL	155	719	584	128	214	45	6	5	58	125	34	2	.366	.476	.490	.965	9.4
1989SS	Boston Red Sox	AL	156	742	621	113	205	51	7	3	54	107	51	2	.330	.430	.449	.879	7.1
1990	Boston Red Sox	AL	155	713	619	89	187	44	5	6	63	87	68	0	.302	.386	.418	.804	3.4
1991SS	Boston Red Sox	AL	144	641	546	93	181	42	2	8	51	89	32	1	.332	.421	.460	.881	5.8
1992	Boston Red Sox	AL	143	598	514	62	133	22	4	7	50	74	31	1	.259	.353	.358	.711	1.8
1993SS	New York Yankees	AL	143	644	560	83	169	26	1	2	59	74	49	0	.302	.378	.363	.740	3.7
1994GGSS	New York Yankees	AL	97	434	366	61	125	19	1	11	55	61	29	2	.342	.433	.489	.922	4.5
1995GG	New York Yankees	AL	126	541	460	76	149	22	4	5	63	74	50	1	.324	.412	.422	.834	3.1
1996	New York Yankees	AL	132	574	501	80	156	29	2	2	41	67	32	1	.311	.389	.389	.778	1.4
1997	New York Yankees	AL	104	407	353	55	103	23	1	4	28	48	38	0	.292	.373	.397	.769	1.6
1998	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	AL	123	483	435	51	122	23	4	7	52	46	54	3	.280	.348	.400	.748	1.2
1999	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	AL	90	334	292	40	88	14	1	2	29	38	23	1	.301	.377	.377	.754	0.4
Career	18 seasons		2440	10740	9180	1513	3010	578	61	118	1014	1412	745	24	.328	.419	.443	.862	89.4

Pitching

Season	Team	Lg	G	IP	SO	BB	H	ER	ERA	WHIP	FIP
1997	New York Yankees	AL	1	1.0	1	1	0	0	0.00	1.00	4.11
1999	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	AL	1	1.3	1	0	3	1	6.75	2.25	1.63
Career	2 seasons		2	2.3	2	1	3	1	3.86	1.72	—

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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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).

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