MLB / Players

Brett Gardner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 24, 1983 · Holly Hill, SC, USA

MLB debutJune 30, 2008

Final gameOctober 3, 2021

Seasons14 (2008–2021)

New York Yankees 2008–2021

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified batters

141

33.6

550

28.4

491

25.4

57.5

123

15.7

29.9

90.3

55.2

RBI

38.1

52.2

108

64.2

68.7

.251

17.9

OBP

.325

25.4

SLG

.503

56.7

OPS

.829

53.7

wRC+

116.3

57.5

OPS+

116.0

wOBA

.346

sWAR

2.9

of 135 qualified 2019 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.1

50.3

OPS+

101.0

43.7

sWAR

21.8

94.3

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
2008	42	141	127	18	29	5	2	0	16	8	30	13	1	.228	.283	.299	.582	53.9	54.7	.267	-0.4
2009	108	284	248	48	67	6	6	3	23	26	40	26	5	.270	.345	.379	.724	92.3	89.3	.327	0.8
2010	150	569	477	97	132	20	7	5	47	79	101	47	9	.277	.383	.379	.762	114.3	107.0	.353	2.4
2011	159	588	510	87	132	19	8	7	36	60	93	49	13	.259	.345	.369	.713	97.7	93.7	.325	1.1
2012	16	37	31	7	10	2	0	0	3	5	7	2	2	.323	.417	.387	.804	130.9	121.6	.368	0.2
2013	145	609	539	81	147	33	10	8	52	52	127	24	8	.273	.344	.416	.759	112.4	109.5	.338	3.2
2014	148	636	555	87	142	25	8	17	58	56	134	21	5	.256	.327	.422	.749	113.0	110.8	.335	2.5
2015	151	656	571	94	148	26	3	16	66	68	135	20	5	.259	.343	.399	.742	107.8	104.4	.329	2.4
2016	148	634	547	80	143	22	6	7	41	70	106	16	4	.261	.351	.362	.713	98.0	93.8	.320	1.3
2017	151	682	594	96	157	26	4	21	63	72	122	23	5	.264	.350	.428	.778	107.8	105.4	.339	2.4
2018	140	609	530	95	125	20	7	12	45	65	107	16	2	.236	.322	.368	.690	93.1	90.7	.307	1.1
2019	141	550	491	86	123	26	7	28	74	52	108	10	2	.251	.325	.503	.829	116.3	116.0	.346	2.9
2020	49	158	130	20	29	5	1	5	15	26	35	3	3	.223	.354	.392	.747	113.6	108.9	.335	0.6
2021	140	461	387	47	86	16	4	10	39	60	100	4	0	.222	.327	.362	.689	93.0	89.7	.307	1.2

Career totals

1,688

6,614

5,737

943

427th-most career R

1,470

251

354th-most career 3B

139

RBI

578

699

382nd-most career BB

1,245

198th-most career SO

274

201st-most career SB

.2562

OBP

.3416

SLG

.3981

OPS

.7397

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
2009-06-26	NYY @ NYM Gameday	6	3	5	0	1	1	2	10
2018-05-29	HOU @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	3	10
2019-09-14	NYY @ TOR Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	5	10
2017-05-02	TOR @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	3	10
2014-07-29	NYY @ TEX Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	1	9

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× Gold Glove1× 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.