Ed Sprague

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornJuly 25, 1967 · Castro Valley, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 7, 1991

Final gameOctober 7, 2001

Seasons11 (1991–2001)

Toronto Blue Jays 1991–1997; Oakland Athletics 1998; Toronto Blue Jays 1998; Pittsburgh Pirates 1999; Boston Red Sox 2000; San Diego Padres 2000; Seattle Mariners 2001

Percentile snapshot

1999 season — qualified batters

137

23.6

564

26.1

490

24.8

131

35.7

31.8

51.6

RBI

48.4

29.3

45.9

35.7

.267

17.8

OBP

.352

37.6

SLG

.465

46.5

OPS

.817

42.7

wRC+

103.7

38.2

OPS+

105.1

38.2

wOBA

.357

38.2

sWAR

2.3

of 158 qualified 1999 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

89.8

22.8

OPS+

90.5

23.9

sWAR

10.3

87.2

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
1991	61	183	160	17	44	7	0	4	20	19	43	0	3	.275	.361	.394	.754	109.5	107.4	.346	0.7
1992	22	50	47	6	11	2	0	1	7	3	7	0	0	.234	.280	.340	.620	69.7	71.5	.288	0.1
1993	150	596	546	50	142	31	1	12	73	32	85	1	0	.260	.310	.386	.696	86.0	86.6	.316	1.3
1994	109	445	405	38	97	19	1	11	44	23	95	1	0	.240	.296	.373	.669	70.8	71.4	.299	0.0
1995	144	602	521	77	127	27	2	18	74	58	96	0	0	.244	.333	.407	.740	92.8	92.3	.332	1.6
1996	159	670	591	88	146	35	2	36	101	60	146	0	0	.247	.325	.496	.821	102.7	104.9	.354	2.6
1997	138	562	504	63	115	29	4	14	48	51	102	0	1	.228	.306	.385	.691	81.0	79.9	.311	0.7
1998	132	510	469	57	104	25	0	20	58	26	90	1	2	.222	.280	.403	.683	73.5	76.4	.299	0.3
1999	137	564	490	71	131	27	2	22	81	50	93	3	6	.267	.352	.465	.817	103.7	105.1	.357	2.3
2000	106	298	268	30	65	16	0	12	36	25	58	0	0	.243	.312	.437	.749	87.8	90.5	.326	0.3
2001	45	107	94	9	28	7	0	2	16	11	18	0	0	.298	.374	.436	.810	121.4	120.7	.357	0.4

Career totals

1,203

4,587

4,095

506

1,010

225

152

RBI

558

358

833

.2466

OBP

.3185

SLG

.4188

OPS

.7373

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
1996-04-22	TOR @ SEA Gameday	6	4	4	0	1	2	5	12
2000-05-06	SD @ AZ Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	2	11
1993-04-09	CLE @ TOR Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	4	9
1998-06-21	TOR @ BAL Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	4	9
1995-07-18	TOR @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	2	0	1	2	8

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

1× 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.