MLB / Players

Andy Van Slyke

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornDecember 21, 1960 · Utica, NY, USA

MLB debutJune 17, 1983

Final gameOctober 1, 1995

Seasons13 (1983–1995)

St. Louis Cardinals 1983–1986; Pittsburgh Pirates 1987–1994; Baltimore Orioles 1995; Philadelphia Phillies 1995

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified batters

105

49.4

430

41.7

374

41.7

10.3

21.2

30.8

21.2

RBI

5.8

69.9

28.2

52.6

85.3

.246

7.7

OBP

.340

37.2

SLG

.358

10.9

OPS

.698

wRC+

81.7

14.7

OPS+

81.4

14.7

wOBA

.316

17.3

sWAR

0.6

14.1

of 157 qualified 1994 batters (min 353 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.6

79.8

OPS+

119.6

sWAR

37.8

97.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1983	101	361	309	51	81	15	5	8	38	46	64	21	7	.262	.357	.421	.777	117.7	115.7	.357	1.6
1984	137	426	361	45	88	16	4	7	50	63	71	28	5	.244	.354	.368	.723	108.8	106.9	.337	1.3
1985	146	475	424	61	110	25	6	13	55	47	54	34	6	.259	.335	.439	.774	117.9	117.5	.351	1.9
1986	137	470	418	48	113	23	7	13	61	47	85	21	8	.270	.343	.452	.795	121.0	120.5	.359	2.0
1987	157	630	564	93	165	36	11	21	82	56	122	34	8	.293	.359	.507	.866	127.8	126.1	.382	4.3
1988	154	659	587	101	169	23	15	25	100	57	126	30	9	.288	.345	.506	.851	145.0	143.6	.382	6.1
1989	130	531	476	64	113	18	9	9	53	47	100	16	4	.237	.308	.370	.677	98.1	96.7	.314	1.9
1990	136	567	493	67	140	26	6	17	77	66	89	14	4	.284	.367	.465	.832	135.9	132.1	.378	4.7
1991	138	577	491	87	130	24	7	17	83	71	85	10	3	.265	.355	.446	.801	129.7	127.2	.365	4.3
1992	154	685	614	103	199	45	12	14	89	58	99	12	3	.324	.381	.505	.886	155.1	150.4	.400	7.2
1993	83	353	323	42	100	13	4	8	50	24	40	11	2	.310	.357	.449	.806	113.7	115.1	.357	1.9
1994	105	430	374	41	92	18	3	6	30	52	72	7	0	.246	.340	.358	.698	81.7	81.4	.316	0.6
1995	80	314	277	32	62	11	2	6	24	33	56	7	0	.224	.309	.343	.652	72.2	71.9	.299	0.1

Career totals

1,658

6,478

5,711

835

1,562

293

211th-most career 3B

164

RBI

792

667

421st-most career BB

1,063

344th-most career SO

245

253rd-most career SB

.2735

OBP

.3489

SLG

.4428

OPS

.7917

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1987-06-07	PIT @ NYM Gameday	6	3	3	0	1	2	3	11
1990-04-09	PIT @ NYM Gameday	6	3	3	1	0	2	4	10
1986-08-20	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	1	1	9
1988-04-17	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6	3	3	0	0	2	3	9
1989-05-21	PIT @ HOU Gameday	6	4	4	1	0	1	4	8

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

5× Gold Glove2× Silver Slugger3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.