Brett Butler

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJune 15, 1957 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 20, 1981

Final gameSeptember 28, 1997

Seasons17 (1981–1997)

Atlanta Braves 1981–1983; Cleveland Indians 1984–1987; San Francisco Giants 1988–1990; Los Angeles Dodgers 1991–1995; New York Mets 1995; Los Angeles Dodgers 1996–1997

Percentile snapshot

1995 season — qualified batters

129

35.5

596

71.7

513

64.5

56.5

154

9.4

97.1

0.7

RBI

7.2

73.2

84.1

88.4

17.4

.300

68.8

OBP

.377

68.1

SLG

.376

18.1

OPS

.753

27.5

wRC+

109.6

47.1

OPS+

104.8

39.9

wOBA

.348

sWAR

2.9

64.5

of 139 qualified 1995 batters (min 446 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.4

73.8

OPS+

110.0

62.1

sWAR

53.6

99.1

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
1981	40	145	126	17	32	2	3	0	4	19	17	9	1	.254	.352	.317	.669	98.2	89.2	.329	0.3
1982	89	268	240	35	52	2	0	0	7	25	35	21	8	.217	.291	.225	.516	47.0	44.0	.257	-0.7
1983	151	613	549	84	154	21	13	5	37	54	56	39	23	.281	.344	.393	.738	101.5	98.9	.342	1.6
1984	159	709	602	108	162	25	9	3	49	86	62	52	22	.269	.361	.355	.717	104.1	98.1	.335	3.0
1985	152	666	591	106	184	28	14	5	50	63	42	47	20	.311	.377	.431	.808	125.2	121.6	.364	4.6
1986	161	683	587	92	163	17	14	4	51	70	65	32	15	.278	.356	.375	.731	103.9	100.1	.335	2.9
1987	137	618	522	91	154	25	8	9	41	91	55	33	16	.295	.399	.425	.825	124.8	118.3	.373	4.2
1988	157	679	568	109	163	27	9	6	43	97	64	43	20	.287	.393	.398	.791	142.6	133.6	.374	6.0
1989	154	672	594	100	168	22	4	4	36	59	69	31	16	.283	.349	.354	.703	109.9	104.7	.332	3.3
1990	160	732	622	108	192	20	9	3	44	90	62	51	19	.309	.397	.384	.781	128.7	120.3	.368	5.3
1991	161	730	615	112	182	13	5	2	38	108	79	38	28	.296	.401	.343	.744	124.4	114.6	.357	4.9
1992	157	676	553	86	171	14	11	3	39	95	67	41	21	.309	.413	.391	.803	143.3	131.0	.383	5.9
1993	156	716	607	80	181	21	10	1	42	86	69	39	19	.298	.387	.371	.758	117.5	110.3	.355	4.2
1994	111	496	417	79	131	13	9	8	33	68	52	27	8	.314	.411	.446	.857	138.0	130.9	.391	4.2
1995	129	596	513	78	154	18	9	1	38	67	51	32	8	.300	.377	.376	.753	109.6	104.8	.348	2.9
1996	34	145	131	22	35	1	1	0	8	9	22	8	3	.267	.313	.290	.603	69.0	67.1	.280	0.0
1997	105	401	343	52	97	8	3	0	18	42	40	15	10	.283	.363	.324	.686	95.3	88.9	.325	0.9

Career totals

2,213

142nd-most career G

9,545

118th-most career PA

8,180

133rd-most career AB

1,359

106th-most career R

2,375

134th-most career H

277

131

78th-most career 3B

RBI

578

1,129

78th-most career BB

907

558

25th-most career SB

.2903

399th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3769

213th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3760

OPS

.7529

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
1985-08-08	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	4	10
1994-05-22	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	3	9
1983-06-26	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	0	1	9
1994-04-20	NYM @ LAD Gameday	6	2	5	1	1	0	2	8
1995-07-19	NYM @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	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× 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.