Don Slaught

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 11, 1958 · Long Beach, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 6, 1982

Final gameMay 19, 1997

Seasons16 (1982–1997)

Kansas City Royals 1982–1984; Texas Rangers 1985–1987; New York Yankees 1988–1989; Pittsburgh Pirates 1990–1995; California Angels 1996; Chicago White Sox 1996; San Diego Padres 1997

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.0

OPS+

104.1

50.9

sWAR

28.2

96.2

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	43	126	115	14	32	6	0	3	8	9	12	0	0	.278	.331	.409	.739	104.1	102.1	.334	0.9
1983	83	290	276	21	86	13	4	0	28	11	27	3	1	.312	.336	.388	.723	99.8	99.3	.327	1.7
1984	124	446	409	48	108	27	4	4	42	20	55	0	0	.264	.297	.379	.676	81.3	86.1	.299	1.6
1985	102	370	343	34	96	17	4	8	35	20	41	5	4	.280	.331	.423	.753	105.5	104.4	.337	2.4
1986	95	341	314	39	83	17	1	13	46	16	59	3	2	.264	.308	.449	.757	100.2	101.4	.333	1.9
1987	95	266	237	25	53	15	2	8	16	24	51	0	3	.224	.298	.405	.703	82.1	84.2	.306	0.9
1988	97	358	322	33	91	25	1	9	43	24	54	1	0	.283	.334	.450	.785	117.4	119.0	.349	2.8
1989	117	392	350	34	88	21	3	5	38	30	57	1	1	.251	.315	.371	.687	92.8	94.0	.315	1.9
1990	84	267	230	27	69	18	3	4	29	27	27	0	1	.300	.375	.457	.832	134.9	132.5	.377	2.7
1991	77	250	220	19	65	17	1	1	29	21	32	1	0	.295	.363	.395	.759	120.6	116.5	.352	2.1
1992	87	285	255	26	88	17	3	4	37	17	23	2	2	.345	.384	.482	.866	146.0	145.3	.387	3.2
1993	116	420	377	34	113	19	2	10	55	29	56	2	1	.300	.356	.440	.796	114.2	112.7	.357	3.0
1994	76	279	240	21	69	7	0	2	21	34	31	0	0	.288	.381	.342	.723	96.1	89.7	.338	1.4
1995	35	123	112	13	34	6	0	0	13	9	8	0	0	.304	.361	.357	.718	88.7	88.9	.326	0.5
1996	76	263	243	25	76	10	0	6	36	15	22	0	0	.313	.355	.428	.783	99.4	98.0	.348	1.4
1997	20	26	20	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	4	0	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-22.5	-39.8	.148	-0.3

Career totals

1,327

4,502

4,063

415

1,151

235

RBI

476

311

559

.2833

OBP

.3377

SLG

.4118

OPS

.7495

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
1990-05-27	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1993-07-02	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	7	8
1987-09-15	ATH @ TEX Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1994-07-07	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	2	5	2	0	0	0	7
1984-07-20	BAL @ KC Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	0	0	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.