MLB / Players

Carl Yastrzemski

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 22, 1939 · Southampton, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1961

Final gameOctober 2, 1983

Seasons23 (1961–1983)

Boston Red Sox 1961–1983

Percentile snapshot

1982 season — qualified batters

131

6.4

523

5.7

459

2.1

11.4

126

11.4

26.4

3.6

53.6

RBI

55.7

81.4

.275

49.3

OBP

.358

68.6

SLG

.431

OPS

.789

62.1

wRC+

115.3

58.6

OPS+

111.6

49.3

wOBA

.357

62.1

sWAR

1.5

23.6

of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

132.7

92.6

OPS+

130.2

90.5

sWAR

82.3

99.8

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
1961	148	643	583	71	155	31	6	11	80	50	96	6	5	.266	.324	.396	.721	87.9	89.5	.325	0.4
1962	160	719	646	99	191	43	6	19	94	66	82	7	4	.296	.363	.469	.832	119.9	119.0	.370	3.3
1963	151	668	570	91	183	40	3	14	68	95	72	8	5	.321	.418	.475	.894	154.1	146.0	.403	5.8
1964	151	646	567	77	164	29	9	15	67	75	90	6	5	.289	.374	.451	.825	127.3	122.3	.371	4.5
1965	133	571	494	78	154	45	3	20	72	70	58	7	6	.312	.395	.536	.932	158.7	153.9	.413	5.3
1966	160	680	594	81	165	39	2	16	80	84	60	8	9	.278	.368	.431	.799	122.6	118.5	.360	3.3
1967	161	680	579	112	189	31	4	44	121	91	69	10	8	.326	.418	.622	1.040	200.5	193.4	.459	9.5
1968	157	664	539	90	162	32	2	23	74	119	90	13	6	.301	.426	.495	.922	183.6	171.2	.422	7.8
1969	162	707	603	96	154	28	2	40	111	101	91	15	7	.255	.362	.507	.870	137.3	135.7	.392	4.6
1970	161	697	566	125	186	29	0	40	102	128	66	23	13	.329	.452	.592	1.044	184.8	177.8	.464	8.3
1971	148	620	508	75	129	21	2	15	70	106	60	8	7	.254	.381	.392	.772	119.2	113.9	.362	2.7
1972	125	535	455	70	120	18	2	12	68	67	44	5	4	.264	.357	.391	.748	124.7	118.1	.354	2.5
1973	152	652	540	82	160	25	4	19	95	105	58	9	7	.296	.407	.463	.870	142.8	139.7	.397	4.6
1974	148	633	515	93	155	25	2	15	79	104	48	12	7	.301	.414	.445	.859	144.3	141.5	.393	4.3
1975	149	634	543	91	146	30	1	14	60	87	67	8	4	.269	.371	.405	.776	114.3	112.6	.359	2.0
1976	155	636	546	71	146	23	2	21	102	80	67	5	6	.267	.357	.432	.790	123.1	120.8	.367	2.7
1977	150	643	558	99	165	27	3	28	102	73	40	11	1	.296	.372	.505	.877	127.7	127.2	.385	3.6
1978	144	611	523	70	145	21	2	17	81	76	44	4	5	.277	.367	.423	.790	115.7	114.1	.360	2.2
1979	147	590	518	69	140	28	1	21	87	62	46	3	3	.270	.346	.450	.796	107.4	109.4	.352	1.3
1980	105	412	364	49	100	21	1	15	50	44	38	0	2	.275	.350	.462	.812	117.2	117.3	.363	1.4
1981	91	390	338	36	83	14	1	7	53	49	28	0	1	.246	.338	.355	.693	98.6	96.3	.325	0.3
1982	131	523	459	53	126	22	1	16	72	59	50	0	1	.275	.358	.431	.789	115.3	111.6	.357	1.5
1983	119	437	380	38	101	24	0	10	56	54	29	0	0	.266	.359	.408	.767	104.5	105.6	.343	0.4

Career totals

3,308

2nd-most career G

13,991

2nd-most career PA

11,988

3rd-most career AB

1,816

19th-most career R

3,419

9th-most career H

646

9th-most career 2B

452

41st-most career HR

RBI

1,844

15th-most career RBI

1,845

6th-most career BB

1,393

123rd-most career SO

168

484th-most career SB

.2852

OBP

.3795

193rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4620

366th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8415

234th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1965-05-14	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	2	5	1	14
1976-05-19	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	3	4	1	13
1967-04-16	BOS @ NYY Gameday	8	2	5	1	2	0	1	1	10
1977-06-18	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	5	0	10
1970-07-21	LAA @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	4	0	10

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

Hall of Fame, 1989 (BBWAA)

7× Gold Glove1× Most Valuable Player1× Triple Crown1× All-Star Game MVP18× 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.