MLB / Players

Don Mattingly

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornApril 20, 1961 · Evansville, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1982

Final gameOctober 1, 1995

Seasons14 (1982–1995)

New York Yankees 1982–1995

Percentile snapshot

1995 season — qualified batters

128

34.8

507

25.4

458

32.6

132

35.5

79.7

25.4

17.4

RBI

18.8

94.9

66.7

.288

51.4

OBP

.341

31.2

SLG

.413

29.7

OPS

.754

28.3

wRC+

93.9

23.2

OPS+

97.2

27.5

wOBA

.332

20.3

sWAR

0.3

of 139 qualified 1995 batters (min 449 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.8

84.7

OPS+

127.2

87.9

sWAR

33.2

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
1982	7	13	12	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.167	.154	.167	.321	-26.8	-10.8	.140	-0.2
1983	91	305	279	34	79	15	4	4	32	21	31	0	0	.283	.333	.409	.742	104.2	107.3	.329	0.6
1984	153	662	603	91	207	44	2	23	110	41	33	1	1	.343	.381	.537	.918	155.2	156.8	.401	5.3
1985	159	727	652	107	211	48	3	35	145	56	41	2	2	.324	.371	.567	.939	151.4	156.7	.400	5.6
1986	162	742	677	117	238	53	2	31	113	53	35	0	0	.352	.394	.573	.967	159.9	162.3	.416	6.5
1987	141	629	569	93	186	38	2	30	115	51	38	1	4	.327	.378	.559	.937	141.8	146.4	.396	4.2
1988	144	651	599	94	186	37	0	18	88	41	29	1	0	.311	.353	.462	.816	123.6	127.9	.358	2.8
1989	158	693	631	79	191	37	2	23	113	51	30	3	0	.303	.351	.477	.828	126.3	132.4	.363	3.1
1990	102	428	394	40	101	16	0	5	42	28	20	1	0	.256	.308	.335	.643	70.2	79.6	.286	-1.0
1991	152	646	587	64	169	35	0	9	68	46	42	2	0	.288	.339	.394	.733	98.4	102.0	.328	0.7
1992	157	686	640	89	184	40	0	14	86	39	43	3	0	.288	.327	.416	.742	105.3	108.1	.335	1.4
1993	134	596	530	78	154	27	2	17	86	61	42	0	0	.291	.364	.445	.809	119.8	120.4	.363	2.3
1994	97	436	372	62	113	20	1	6	51	60	24	0	0	.304	.397	.411	.808	115.4	113.7	.364	1.5
1995	128	507	458	59	132	32	2	7	49	40	35	0	2	.288	.341	.413	.754	93.9	97.2	.332	0.3

Career totals

1,785

427th-most career G

7,721

333rd-most career PA

7,003

313th-most career AB

1,007

345th-most career R

2,153

208th-most career H

442

121st-most career 2B

222

320th-most career HR

RBI

1,099

225th-most career RBI

588

444

.3074

139th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3583

SLG

.4714

285th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8297

286th-highest career OPS

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	BB	TB
1989-06-11	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	4	0	10
1986-05-17	SEA @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	1	0	9
1986-06-09	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	1	9
1989-06-22	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	1	9
1985-08-02	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	3	0	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

9× Gold Glove3× Silver Slugger1× Most Valuable Player6× 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.