Darin Erstad

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornJune 4, 1974 · Jamestown, ND, USA

MLB debutJune 14, 1996

Final gameOctober 4, 2009

Seasons14 (1996–2009)

California Angels 1996; Anaheim Angels 1997–2004; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2005–2006; Chicago White Sox 2007; Houston Astros 2008–2009

Percentile snapshot

2005 season — qualified batters

153

64.9

663

70.3

609

82.4

63.5

166

70.3

54.1

50.7

6.1

RBI

34.5

37.2

109

63.5

41.9

.273

40.5

OBP

.325

26.4

SLG

.371

9.5

OPS

.696

11.5

wRC+

88.1

14.9

OPS+

87.8

14.9

wOBA

.309

10.8

sWAR

0.0

of 149 qualified 2005 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.3

28.6

OPS+

93.7

28.9

sWAR

10.0

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
1996	57	229	208	34	59	5	1	4	20	17	29	3	3	.284	.333	.375	.708	79.2	79.4	.317	0.2
1997	139	605	539	99	161	34	4	16	77	51	86	23	8	.299	.360	.466	.826	114.7	114.7	.363	2.0
1998	133	590	537	84	159	39	3	19	82	43	77	20	6	.296	.353	.486	.839	114.4	116.2	.362	2.1
1999	142	638	585	84	148	22	5	13	53	47	101	13	7	.253	.308	.374	.683	73.1	74.5	.304	-0.9
2000	157	747	676	121	240	39	6	25	100	64	82	28	8	.355	.409	.541	.951	138.1	138.1	.411	5.3
2001	157	711	631	89	163	35	1	9	63	62	113	24	10	.258	.331	.360	.691	82.7	82.9	.308	1.0
2002	150	663	625	99	177	28	4	10	73	27	67	23	3	.283	.313	.389	.702	85.5	87.7	.307	1.2
2003	67	284	258	35	65	7	1	4	17	18	40	9	1	.252	.309	.333	.642	69.9	69.9	.289	0.0
2004	125	543	495	79	146	29	1	7	69	37	74	16	1	.295	.346	.400	.746	98.8	97.5	.332	0.8
2005	153	663	609	86	166	33	3	7	66	47	109	10	3	.273	.325	.371	.696	88.1	87.8	.309	0.0
2006	40	105	95	8	21	8	1	0	5	6	18	1	1	.221	.279	.326	.605	56.5	57.4	.272	-0.3
2007	87	345	310	33	77	13	1	4	32	28	44	7	2	.248	.310	.335	.645	69.2	68.1	.296	-0.4
2008	140	342	322	49	89	16	0	4	31	14	68	2	3	.276	.309	.363	.672	73.9	77.8	.298	-0.3
2009	107	150	134	13	26	8	2	2	11	14	31	0	2	.194	.268	.328	.597	50.4	58.8	.263	-0.7

Career totals

1,654

6,615

6,024

913

463rd-most career R

1,697

487th-most career H

316

428th-most career 2B

124

RBI

699

475

939

460th-most career SO

179

441st-most career SB

.2817

OBP

.3358

SLG

.4069

OPS

.7427

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
2000-04-05	NYY @ LAA Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	5	9
1998-06-11	LAA @ AZ Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	2	9
2000-06-07	SF @ LAA Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	9
2002-06-24	LAA @ TEX Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	3	9
1998-04-11	LAA @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	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

3× Gold Glove1× Silver Slugger2× 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.