Delino DeShields

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 15, 1969 · Seaford, DE, USA

MLB debutApril 9, 1990

Final gameAugust 8, 2002

Seasons13 (1990–2002)

Montreal Expos 1990–1993; Los Angeles Dodgers 1994–1996; St. Louis Cardinals 1997–1998; Baltimore Orioles 1999–2001; Chicago Cubs 2001–2002

Percentile snapshot

2000 season — qualified batters

151

57.9

643

62.2

561

60.4

42.7

166

67.1

92.1

72.6

15.9

RBI

51.2

62.8

56.1

95.7

8.5

.296

65.2

OBP

.369

SLG

.444

41.5

OPS

.813

47.6

wRC+

112.5

58.5

OPS+

111.9

59.8

wOBA

.360

50.6

sWAR

3.0

62.2

of 165 qualified 2000 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.8

45.2

OPS+

98.4

38.3

sWAR

25.5

95.5

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
1990	129	572	499	69	144	28	6	4	45	66	96	42	22	.289	.375	.393	.768	122.2	116.1	.358	3.7
1991	151	673	563	83	134	15	4	10	51	95	151	56	23	.238	.347	.332	.680	102.0	95.0	.325	2.7
1992	135	599	530	82	155	19	8	7	56	54	108	46	15	.292	.359	.398	.757	120.3	116.1	.351	3.7
1993	123	562	481	75	142	17	7	2	29	72	64	43	10	.295	.389	.372	.761	111.4	104.3	.356	2.9
1994	89	376	320	51	80	11	3	2	33	54	53	27	7	.250	.357	.322	.679	93.3	84.9	.323	1.1
1995	127	493	425	66	109	18	3	8	37	63	83	39	14	.256	.353	.369	.722	102.7	99.3	.333	2.0
1996	154	642	581	75	130	12	8	5	41	53	124	48	11	.224	.288	.298	.585	60.6	61.3	.267	-0.8
1997	150	643	572	92	169	26	14	11	58	55	72	55	14	.295	.357	.448	.804	112.4	110.7	.360	3.4
1998	117	484	420	74	122	21	8	7	44	56	61	26	10	.290	.371	.429	.799	113.7	110.7	.359	2.6
1999	96	374	330	46	87	11	2	6	34	37	52	11	8	.264	.339	.364	.702	86.5	83.4	.321	0.8
2000	151	643	561	84	166	43	5	10	86	69	82	37	10	.296	.369	.444	.813	112.5	111.9	.360	3.0
2001	126	417	351	55	82	17	5	5	37	59	77	23	2	.234	.344	.353	.697	94.8	88.9	.320	0.7
2002	67	174	146	20	28	6	1	3	10	21	38	10	1	.192	.292	.308	.600	60.0	61.1	.277	-0.2

Career totals

1,615

6,652

5,779

872

1,548

244

345th-most career 3B

RBI

561

754

318th-most career BB

1,061

345th-most career SO

463

50th-most career SB

.2679

OBP

.3521

SLG

.3772

OPS

.7293

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
1991-06-05	WSH @ HOU Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	4	9
1992-08-06	WSH @ PHI Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	4	8
1997-07-27	MIA @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	8
2001-04-27	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	8
1995-08-24	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	3	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.