Chris Speier

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornJune 28, 1950 · Alameda, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 7, 1971

Final gameOctober 1, 1989

Seasons19 (1971–1989)

San Francisco Giants 1971–1976; Montreal Expos 1977; San Francisco Giants 1977; Montreal Expos 1978–1983; Minnesota Twins 1984; Montreal Expos 1984; St. Louis Cardinals 1984; Chicago Cubs 1985–1986; San Francisco Giants 1987–1989

Percentile snapshot

1982 season — qualified batters

156

585

37.9

530

38.6

0.7

136

27.9

56.4

20.7

RBI

36.4

42.1

54.3

7.9

40.7

.257

21.4

OBP

.316

SLG

.360

19.3

OPS

.677

16.4

wRC+

84.8

OPS+

88.4

16.4

wOBA

.308

sWAR

1.7

32.1

of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.7

21.7

OPS+

88.2

20.2

sWAR

26.8

95.9

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
1971	157	670	601	74	141	17	6	8	46	56	90	4	7	.235	.307	.323	.630	80.1	80.0	.297	1.5
1972	150	658	562	74	151	25	2	15	71	82	92	9	4	.269	.361	.400	.761	121.7	115.3	.357	4.8
1973	153	617	542	58	135	17	4	11	71	66	69	4	5	.249	.332	.356	.688	90.9	87.8	.324	2.2
1974	141	577	501	55	125	19	5	9	53	62	64	3	2	.250	.336	.361	.697	92.6	91.8	.330	2.1
1975	141	564	487	60	132	30	5	10	69	70	50	4	5	.271	.362	.415	.777	114.8	111.9	.363	3.6
1976	145	572	495	51	112	18	4	3	40	60	52	2	2	.226	.311	.297	.608	74.7	71.7	.296	0.9
1977	145	621	548	59	128	31	6	5	38	67	81	1	2	.234	.317	.339	.657	80.5	78.0	.306	1.3
1978	150	570	501	47	126	18	3	5	51	60	75	1	0	.251	.329	.329	.659	86.3	86.8	.308	1.8
1979	113	391	344	31	78	13	1	7	26	43	45	0	0	.227	.317	.331	.649	76.5	79.3	.298	0.8
1980	128	447	388	35	103	14	4	1	32	52	38	0	3	.265	.351	.330	.681	87.9	92.7	.311	1.5
1981	96	351	307	33	69	10	2	2	25	38	29	1	2	.225	.310	.290	.600	66.4	71.3	.281	0.3
1982	156	585	530	41	136	26	4	7	60	47	67	1	6	.257	.316	.360	.677	84.8	88.4	.308	1.7
1983	88	298	261	31	67	12	2	2	22	29	37	2	1	.257	.332	.341	.673	89.2	88.7	.314	1.0
1984	75	209	191	12	34	7	1	3	10	13	34	0	0	.178	.234	.272	.506	39.4	43.7	.238	-0.5
1985	106	240	218	16	53	11	0	4	24	17	34	1	3	.243	.295	.349	.644	70.8	72.0	.300	0.3
1986	95	176	155	21	44	8	0	6	23	15	32	2	2	.284	.349	.452	.800	111.9	112.5	.359	1.1
1987	111	364	317	39	79	13	0	11	39	42	51	4	7	.249	.342	.394	.736	100.6	99.4	.333	1.5
1988	82	201	171	26	37	9	1	3	18	23	39	3	3	.216	.311	.333	.645	92.3	89.8	.304	0.7
1989	28	44	37	7	9	4	0	0	2	5	9	0	0	.243	.333	.351	.685	106.2	99.2	.327	0.2

Career totals

2,260

127th-most career G

8,155

270th-most career PA

7,156

280th-most career AB

770

1,759

441st-most career H

302

481st-most career 2B

112

RBI

720

847

227th-most career BB

988

401st-most career SO

.2458

OBP

.3268

SLG

.3489

OPS

.6757

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
1988-07-09	STL @ SF Gameday	6	4	5	2	1	1	5	12
1978-07-20	ATL @ WSH Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	1	6	10
1975-07-28	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	1	9
1982-09-22	PHI @ WSH Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	8	8
1973-05-21	SF @ HOU Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	4	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

3× 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.