Danny Tartabull

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 30, 1962 · San Juan, P.R.

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1984

Final gameApril 7, 1997

Seasons14 (1984–1997)

Seattle Mariners 1984–1986; Kansas City Royals 1987–1991; New York Yankees 1992–1995; Oakland Athletics 1995; Chicago White Sox 1996; Philadelphia Phillies 1997

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified batters

132

8.2

541

10.2

472

7.5

5.4

120

50.3

68.7

RBI

101

69.4

61.2

128

12.2

7.5

.254

13.6

OBP

.340

30.6

SLG

.487

62.6

OPS

.827

53.1

wRC+

109.1

49.7

OPS+

111.0

53.7

wOBA

.358

44.2

sWAR

1.7

30.6

of 148 qualified 1996 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

133.4

OPS+

133.4

92.9

sWAR

35.2

97.3

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
1984	10	24	20	3	6	1	0	2	7	2	3	0	0	.300	.375	.650	1.025	173.8	179.2	.433	0.3
1985	19	69	61	8	20	7	1	1	7	8	14	1	0	.328	.406	.525	.930	157.2	152.0	.414	0.8
1986	137	578	511	76	138	25	6	25	96	61	157	4	8	.270	.347	.489	.836	124.9	124.1	.368	3.3
1987	158	667	582	95	180	27	3	34	101	79	136	9	4	.309	.390	.541	.931	144.0	142.7	.403	5.1
1988	146	593	507	80	139	38	3	26	102	76	119	8	5	.274	.369	.515	.884	146.7	145.7	.392	4.6
1989	133	515	441	54	118	22	0	18	62	69	123	4	2	.268	.369	.440	.809	133.3	128.9	.373	2.9
1990	88	352	313	41	84	19	0	15	60	36	93	1	1	.268	.341	.473	.814	129.2	127.8	.368	1.8
1991	132	557	484	78	153	35	3	31	100	65	121	6	3	.316	.397	.593	.990	170.0	170.5	.432	5.9
1992	123	526	421	72	112	19	0	25	85	103	115	2	2	.266	.409	.489	.898	153.6	152.4	.405	4.1
1993	138	611	513	87	128	33	2	31	102	92	156	0	0	.250	.363	.503	.866	133.0	134.5	.383	3.3
1994	104	470	399	68	102	24	1	19	67	66	111	1	1	.256	.360	.464	.823	115.6	115.0	.364	1.5
1995	83	328	280	34	66	16	0	8	35	43	82	0	2	.236	.335	.379	.714	90.6	88.1	.326	0.0
1996	132	541	472	58	120	23	3	27	101	64	128	1	2	.254	.340	.487	.827	109.1	111.0	.358	1.7
1997	3	11	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	.000	.364	.000	.364	51.3	5.9	.270	0.0

Career totals

1,406

5,842

5,011

756

1,366

289

262

232nd-most career HR

RBI

925

385th-most career RBI

768

302nd-most career BB

1,362

138th-most career SO

.2726

OBP

.3683

318th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4959

142nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8642

140th-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	HR	RBI	TB
1992-09-08	NYY @ BAL Gameday	5	3	5	1	2	9	12
1991-07-06	ATH @ KC Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	4	12
1986-08-04	ATH @ SEA Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	4	10
1991-06-12	KC @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	6	10
1987-09-05	CWS @ KC Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	2	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

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.