Dean Palmer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 27, 1968 · Tallahassee, FL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1989

Final gameMay 9, 2003

Seasons14 (1989–2003)

Texas Rangers 1989; Texas Rangers 1991–1996; Kansas City Royals 1997; Texas Rangers 1997; Kansas City Royals 1998; Detroit Tigers 1999–2003

Percentile snapshot

2000 season — qualified batters

145

42.1

604

40.2

524

40.2

24.4

134

18.9

14.6

RBI

102

70.1

58.5

146

4.9

31.1

65.9

.256

16.5

OBP

.338

26.8

SLG

.471

OPS

.809

45.7

wRC+

103.7

43.9

OPS+

105.2

47.6

wOBA

.351

42.7

sWAR

2.2

46.3

of 165 qualified 2000 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

105.0

52.1

OPS+

106.2

54.8

sWAR

21.9

94.3

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
1989	16	20	19	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	12	0	0	.105	.100	.211	.311	-34.7	-15.0	.132	-0.3
1991	81	304	268	38	50	9	2	15	37	32	98	0	2	.187	.281	.403	.684	89.3	88.6	.311	0.5
1992	152	613	541	74	124	25	0	26	72	62	154	10	4	.229	.311	.420	.731	106.4	106.4	.334	2.9
1993	148	585	519	88	127	31	2	33	96	53	154	11	10	.245	.321	.503	.824	119.3	122.1	.362	3.6
1994	93	371	342	50	84	14	2	19	59	26	89	3	4	.246	.302	.465	.767	94.8	95.6	.335	1.1
1995	36	145	119	30	40	6	0	9	24	21	21	1	1	.336	.448	.613	1.062	172.0	170.9	.461	1.8
1996	154	652	582	98	163	26	2	38	107	59	145	2	0	.280	.348	.527	.876	112.2	114.0	.376	3.4
1997	143	592	542	70	139	31	1	23	86	41	134	2	2	.256	.310	.445	.754	89.3	91.5	.330	1.4
1998	152	639	572	84	159	27	2	34	119	48	134	8	2	.278	.333	.510	.844	110.3	113.5	.360	2.9
1999	150	631	560	92	147	25	2	38	100	57	153	3	3	.263	.339	.518	.857	113.8	115.7	.369	3.3
2000	145	604	524	73	134	22	2	29	102	66	146	4	2	.256	.338	.471	.809	103.7	105.2	.351	2.2
2001	57	246	216	34	48	11	0	11	40	27	59	4	1	.222	.317	.426	.743	101.1	98.8	.329	0.2
2002	4	13	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	.000	.077	.000	.077	-78.0	-76.2	.056	-0.3
2003	26	98	86	3	12	2	0	0	6	9	28	0	0	.140	.235	.163	.397	14.6	10.4	.199	-1.0

Career totals

1,357

5,513

4,902

734

1,229

231

275

209th-most career HR

RBI

849

465th-most career RBI

502

1,332

152nd-most career SO

.2507

OBP

.3240

SLG

.4723

280th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7963

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
1996-04-21	BAL @ TEX Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	2	6	12
1996-08-10	TEX @ TOR Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	5	10
1999-04-21	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	5	10
1994-07-07	CLE @ TEX Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	9
1994-06-18	ATH @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	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

2× Silver Slugger1× 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.