Ben Grieve

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornMay 4, 1976 · Arlington, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1997

Final gameOctober 2, 2005

Seasons9 (1997–2005)

Oakland Athletics 1997–2000; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2001–2003; Chicago Cubs 2004; Milwaukee Brewers 2004; Chicago Cubs 2005

Percentile snapshot

2002 season — qualified batters

136

13.6

561

22.1

482

18.8

16.2

121

8.4

49.4

47.4

RBI

33.8

69.5

121

18.2

51.9

62.3

.251

16.9

OBP

.353

55.8

SLG

.432

38.3

OPS

.784

44.8

wRC+

111.2

48.7

OPS+

109.4

45.5

wOBA

.346

46.8

sWAR

1.9

33.1

of 155 qualified 2002 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.0

69.7

OPS+

111.3

65.2

sWAR

14.2

90.5

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
1997	24	108	93	12	29	6	0	3	24	13	25	0	0	.312	.402	.473	.875	132.8	129.2	.390	0.7
1998	155	678	583	94	168	41	2	18	89	85	123	2	2	.288	.386	.458	.844	124.9	121.4	.376	3.6
1999	148	558	486	80	129	21	0	28	86	63	108	4	0	.265	.358	.481	.840	117.1	116.3	.369	2.3
2000	158	675	594	92	166	40	1	27	104	73	130	3	0	.279	.359	.487	.845	114.8	114.7	.369	2.7
2001	154	639	542	72	143	30	2	11	72	87	159	7	1	.264	.372	.387	.760	108.9	103.1	.346	1.9
2002	136	561	482	62	121	30	0	19	64	69	121	8	2	.251	.353	.432	.784	111.2	109.4	.346	1.9
2003	55	205	165	28	38	7	0	4	17	32	41	0	0	.230	.371	.345	.716	100.2	92.5	.333	0.2
2004	123	294	250	30	65	17	0	8	35	39	70	0	0	.260	.361	.424	.785	102.1	101.9	.346	0.7
2005	23	25	20	1	5	0	0	0	1	5	7	0	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	78.4	74.5	.311	0.0

Career totals

976

3,743

3,215

471

864

192

118

RBI

492

466

784

.2687

OBP

.3675

336th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4417

OPS

.8092

427th-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1998-05-16	ATH @ CWS Gameday	6	2	4	3	1	2	0	10
2003-05-28	TEX @ TB Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	4	1	9
1998-06-16	ATH @ TEX Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	1	8
1999-06-23	ATH @ TEX Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
2002-04-12	TOR @ TB Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	2	0	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

1× Rookie of the Year1× 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.