Don Baylor

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornJune 28, 1949 · Austin, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1970

Final gameOctober 1, 1988

Seasons19 (1970–1988)

Baltimore Orioles 1970–1975; Oakland Athletics 1976; California Angels 1977–1982; New York Yankees 1983–1985; Boston Red Sox 1986–1987; Minnesota Twins 1987; Oakland Athletics 1988

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

160

91.3

687

88.1

585

74.6

84.9

139

38.1

31.7

7.9

91.3

RBI

61.1

111

18.3

20.6

52.4

.238

9.5

OBP

.344

51.6

SLG

.439

52.4

OPS

.783

wRC+

112.0

52.4

OPS+

112.0

51.6

wOBA

.347

53.2

sWAR

1.5

24.6

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.8

75.9

OPS+

118.4

76.9

sWAR

31.7

96.8

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
1970	8	20	17	4	4	0	0	0	4	2	3	1	1	.235	.300	.235	.535	50.8	50.9	.260	-0.1
1971	1	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	.000	.600	.000	.600	193.2	86.4	.452	0.1
1972	102	363	320	33	81	13	3	11	38	29	50	24	2	.253	.330	.416	.745	125.8	120.6	.350	1.8
1973	118	459	405	64	116	20	4	11	51	35	48	32	9	.286	.357	.437	.794	126.4	125.9	.363	2.4
1974	137	549	489	66	133	22	1	10	59	43	56	29	12	.272	.341	.382	.723	113.0	113.0	.335	1.9
1975	145	598	524	79	148	21	6	25	76	53	64	32	17	.282	.360	.489	.849	143.8	146.6	.383	4.4
1976	157	685	595	85	147	25	1	15	68	58	72	52	12	.247	.329	.368	.697	109.8	108.9	.329	1.8
1977	154	645	561	87	141	27	0	25	75	62	76	26	12	.251	.334	.433	.768	110.6	111.9	.341	1.8
1978	158	677	591	103	151	26	0	34	99	56	71	22	9	.255	.332	.472	.804	124.7	128.7	.356	2.7
1979	162	722	628	120	186	33	3	36	139	71	51	22	12	.296	.371	.530	.901	142.0	144.3	.394	5.0
1980	90	380	340	39	85	12	2	5	51	24	32	6	6	.250	.316	.341	.657	82.1	83.2	.301	-0.2
1981	103	432	377	52	90	18	1	17	66	42	51	3	3	.239	.322	.427	.749	116.4	115.5	.343	1.1
1982	157	680	608	80	160	24	1	24	93	57	69	10	4	.263	.329	.424	.754	104.9	106.6	.334	0.9
1983	144	597	534	82	162	33	3	21	85	40	53	17	7	.303	.361	.494	.856	134.2	137.8	.373	2.8
1984	134	558	493	84	129	29	1	27	89	38	68	1	1	.262	.341	.489	.830	130.9	132.0	.366	2.4
1985	142	564	477	70	110	24	1	23	91	52	90	0	4	.231	.330	.430	.760	108.5	109.7	.336	0.9
1986	160	687	585	93	139	23	1	31	94	62	111	3	5	.238	.344	.439	.783	112.0	112.0	.347	1.5
1987	128	467	388	67	95	9	0	16	63	45	59	5	3	.245	.360	.392	.751	101.7	98.4	.339	0.4
1988	92	313	264	28	58	7	0	7	34	34	44	0	1	.220	.332	.326	.658	94.8	89.9	.311	-0.1

Career totals

2,292

118th-most career G

9,401

129th-most career PA

8,198

131st-most career AB

1,236

164th-most career R

2,135

220th-most career H

366

275th-most career 2B

338

116th-most career HR

RBI

1,276

127th-most career RBI

805

266th-most career BB

1,069

335th-most career SO

285

187th-most career SB

.2604

OBP

.3417

SLG

.4356

OPS

.7773

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	BB	TB
1975-07-02	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	5	1	12
1973-04-06	MIL @ BAL Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	1	3	0	11
1979-05-27	LAA @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
1973-08-14	BAL @ TEX Gameday	5	2	5	2	0	1	4	1	10
1979-08-25	LAA @ TOR Gameday	7	3	3	1	0	2	8	0	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

3× Silver Slugger1× Most Valuable Player1× 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.