MLB / Players

Butch Wynegar

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 14, 1956 · York, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 9, 1976

Final gameMay 24, 1988

Seasons13 (1976–1988)

Minnesota Twins 1976–1982; New York Yankees 1982–1986; California Angels 1987–1988

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

129

1.7

512

2.5

442

4.2

118

3.4

1.7

9.2

24.4

RBI

14.3

75.6

95.8

3.4

58.8

.267

33.6

OBP

.360

71.4

SLG

.342

11.8

OPS

.702

24.4

wRC+

104.0

36.1

OPS+

100.2

30.3

wOBA

.327

28.6

sWAR

3.1

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.2

36.2

OPS+

94.1

29.5

sWAR

26.2

95.7

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
1976	149	622	534	58	139	21	2	10	69	79	63	0	0	.260	.356	.363	.719	113.4	109.6	.342	4.2
1977	144	617	532	76	139	22	3	10	79	68	61	2	3	.261	.344	.370	.715	98.4	96.5	.327	3.2
1978	135	522	454	36	104	22	1	4	45	47	42	1	0	.229	.307	.308	.616	73.8	73.0	.291	1.4
1979	149	595	504	74	136	20	0	7	57	74	36	2	2	.270	.363	.351	.714	95.9	91.9	.332	2.9
1980	146	564	486	61	124	18	3	5	57	63	36	3	1	.255	.339	.335	.675	82.3	81.1	.314	1.9
1981	47	172	150	11	37	5	0	0	10	17	9	0	1	.247	.322	.280	.602	71.6	72.2	.286	0.3
1982	87	338	277	36	74	12	1	4	28	50	33	0	1	.267	.378	.361	.739	111.8	106.4	.344	2.4
1983	94	357	301	40	89	18	2	6	42	52	29	1	1	.296	.399	.429	.827	139.0	132.8	.380	3.7
1984	129	512	442	48	118	13	1	6	45	65	35	1	4	.267	.360	.342	.702	104.0	100.2	.327	3.1
1985	102	375	309	27	69	15	0	5	32	64	43	0	0	.223	.356	.320	.676	98.4	90.2	.321	2.1
1986	61	226	194	19	40	4	1	7	29	30	21	0	0	.206	.310	.345	.655	81.2	80.2	.299	0.7
1987	31	102	92	4	19	2	0	0	5	9	13	0	0	.207	.277	.228	.505	42.3	38.7	.241	-0.2
1988	27	65	55	8	14	4	1	1	8	8	7	0	0	.255	.338	.418	.757	110.4	113.9	.336	0.5

Career totals

1,301

5,067

4,330

498

1,102

176

RBI

506

626

489th-most career BB

428

.2545

OBP

.3484

SLG

.3471

OPS

.6955

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
1976-09-22	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1983-07-08	NYY @ KC Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	4	7
1976-07-16	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	3	7
1977-05-03	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	1	7
1977-07-08	SEA @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	3	6

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

2× 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.