Bernard Gilkey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 24, 1966 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1990

Final gameOctober 7, 2001

Seasons12 (1990–2001)

St. Louis Cardinals 1990–1995; New York Mets 1996–1997; Arizona Diamondbacks 1998; New York Mets 1998; Arizona Diamondbacks 1999–2000; Boston Red Sox 2000; Atlanta Braves 2001

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified batters

145

606

44.1

518

34.3

51.7

129

15.4

57.3

11.9

48.3

RBI

46.9

66.4

111

27.3

36.4

.249

10.5

OBP

.338

36.4

SLG

.417

33.6

OPS

.755

31.5

wRC+

101.3

37.1

OPS+

100.4

wOBA

.339

32.9

sWAR

1.4

30.1

of 144 qualified 1997 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.1

63.9

OPS+

109.9

61.6

sWAR

16.3

91.8

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
1990	18	72	64	11	19	5	2	1	3	8	5	6	1	.297	.375	.484	.859	141.7	135.5	.392	0.5
1991	81	311	268	28	58	7	2	5	20	39	33	14	8	.216	.316	.313	.630	83.7	78.1	.302	0.0
1992	131	431	384	56	116	19	4	7	43	39	52	18	12	.302	.364	.427	.792	132.0	127.0	.365	2.5
1993	137	622	557	99	170	40	5	16	70	56	66	15	10	.305	.370	.481	.851	131.1	129.0	.380	3.8
1994	105	431	380	52	96	22	1	6	45	39	65	15	8	.253	.336	.363	.700	87.8	84.7	.320	0.3
1995	121	531	480	73	143	33	4	17	69	42	70	12	6	.298	.358	.490	.848	122.8	122.1	.374	2.7
1996	153	656	571	108	181	44	3	30	117	73	125	17	9	.317	.393	.562	.955	152.6	154.3	.414	5.7
1997	145	606	518	85	129	31	1	18	78	70	111	7	11	.249	.338	.417	.755	101.3	100.4	.339	1.4
1998	111	419	365	41	85	15	0	5	33	43	80	9	3	.233	.320	.315	.635	72.4	69.8	.296	-0.6
1999	94	241	204	28	60	16	1	8	39	29	42	2	2	.294	.379	.500	.879	119.4	120.2	.382	1.1
2000	74	185	164	17	29	6	1	3	15	17	28	0	0	.177	.265	.280	.545	34.4	38.1	.249	-1.2
2001	69	121	106	8	29	6	0	2	14	11	31	0	1	.274	.339	.387	.726	88.8	87.5	.323	0.0

Career totals

1,239

4,626

4,061

606

1,115

244

118

RBI

546

466

708

115

.2746

OBP

.3515

SLG

.4336

OPS

.7851

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	TB
1996-07-24	NYM @ COL Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3	9
1997-09-15	NYM @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	3	9
1999-04-05	AZ @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	2	9
1997-08-16	NYM @ COL Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	2	8
1993-06-25	STL @ NYM Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	3	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.