David Eckstein

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 20, 1975 · Sanford, FL, USA

MLB debutApril 3, 2001

Final gameOctober 3, 2010

Seasons10 (2001–2010)

Anaheim Angels 2001–2004; St. Louis Cardinals 2005–2007; Arizona Diamondbacks 2008; Toronto Blue Jays 2008; San Diego Padres 2009–2010

Percentile snapshot

2009 season — qualified batters

136

22.7

568

26.6

503

29.2

14.3

131

21.4

30.5

40.3

1.3

RBI

12.3

18.8

97.4

23.4

72.1

.260

20.8

OBP

.323

18.8

SLG

.334

2.6

OPS

.657

2.6

wRC+

82.2

9.1

OPS+

81.1

5.2

wOBA

.302

3.2

sWAR

0.8

9.1

of 155 qualified 2009 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.9

24.4

OPS+

87.8

19.6

sWAR

17.4

92.3

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
2001	153	664	582	82	166	26	2	4	41	43	60	29	4	.285	.355	.357	.712	93.8	89.5	.325	2.2
2002	152	702	608	107	178	22	6	8	63	45	44	21	13	.293	.363	.388	.752	106.4	102.9	.338	3.6
2003	120	517	452	59	114	22	1	3	31	36	45	16	5	.252	.325	.325	.651	76.2	73.1	.298	0.8
2004	142	637	566	92	156	24	1	2	35	42	49	16	5	.276	.339	.332	.671	82.4	79.3	.307	1.4
2005	158	713	630	90	185	26	7	8	61	58	44	11	8	.294	.363	.395	.758	105.4	101.0	.345	3.6
2006	123	552	500	68	146	18	1	2	23	31	41	7	6	.292	.350	.344	.694	84.6	81.1	.317	1.3
2007	117	484	434	58	134	23	0	3	31	24	22	10	1	.309	.356	.382	.739	96.3	94.2	.333	1.9
2008	94	376	324	32	86	21	0	2	27	31	32	2	1	.265	.343	.349	.692	88.4	85.6	.318	0.9
2009	136	568	503	64	131	27	2	2	51	39	46	3	1	.260	.323	.334	.657	82.2	81.1	.302	0.8
2010	116	492	442	49	118	23	0	1	29	27	35	8	1	.267	.321	.326	.647	83.9	82.1	.299	0.8

Career totals

1,311

5,705

5,041

701

1,414

232

RBI

392

376

418

123

.2805

OBP

.3452

SLG

.3553

OPS

.7005

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
2003-06-25	SEA @ LAA Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	3	8
2006-10-26	DET @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	0	2	7
2005-08-03	MIA @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	2	7
2005-09-21	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	2	7
2002-06-09	CIN @ LAA Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	4	7

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× World Series MVP2× 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.