MLB / Players

Eric Chavez

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 215 lb

BornDecember 7, 1977 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1998

Final gameJune 8, 2014

Seasons17 (1998–2014)

Oakland Athletics 1998–2010; New York Yankees 2011–2012; Arizona Diamondbacks 2013–2014

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified batters

137

17.4

576

31.7

485

26.7

117

2.5

11.8

38.5

60.2

RBI

39.8

85.7

100

37.9

25.5

83.2

.241

3.1

OBP

.351

42.2

SLG

.435

OPS

.786

39.8

wRC+

105.7

OPS+

105.1

wOBA

.345

39.1

sWAR

2.6

51.6

of 162 qualified 2006 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.4

66.4

OPS+

114.3

70.8

sWAR

31.5

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
1998	16	48	45	6	14	4	1	0	6	3	5	1	1	.311	.354	.444	.799	105.1	108.7	.345	0.2
1999	115	402	356	47	88	21	2	13	50	46	56	1	1	.247	.333	.427	.760	95.7	96.3	.335	1.3
2000	153	569	501	89	139	23	4	26	86	62	94	2	2	.277	.355	.495	.850	112.5	115.6	.365	3.0
2001	151	604	552	91	159	43	0	32	114	41	99	8	2	.288	.338	.540	.878	124.2	128.3	.369	4.1
2002	153	653	585	87	161	31	3	34	109	65	119	8	3	.275	.348	.513	.860	124.0	127.4	.365	4.2
2003	156	654	588	94	166	39	5	29	101	62	89	8	3	.282	.350	.514	.864	122.7	124.9	.368	4.2
2004	125	577	475	87	131	20	0	29	77	95	99	6	3	.276	.397	.501	.898	133.8	133.6	.389	4.5
2005	160	694	625	92	168	40	1	27	101	58	129	6	0	.269	.329	.466	.794	107.5	108.9	.342	3.2
2006	137	576	485	74	117	24	2	22	72	84	100	3	0	.241	.351	.435	.786	105.7	105.1	.345	2.6
2007	90	379	341	43	82	21	2	15	46	34	76	4	2	.240	.306	.446	.752	97.5	99.9	.328	1.3
2008	23	95	89	10	22	7	0	2	14	6	18	0	0	.247	.295	.393	.688	84.2	84.6	.307	0.1
2009	8	31	30	0	3	1	0	0	1	1	7	0	0	.100	.129	.133	.262	-41.2	-29.9	.122	-0.4
2010	33	123	111	10	26	8	0	1	10	8	31	0	0	.234	.276	.333	.610	63.1	67.6	.272	-0.5
2011	58	175	160	16	42	7	1	2	26	14	34	0	0	.263	.320	.356	.676	79.2	83.1	.298	0.1
2012	113	313	278	36	78	12	0	16	37	30	59	0	0	.281	.348	.496	.845	126.2	126.7	.361	1.9
2013	80	253	228	28	64	14	2	9	44	19	45	1	0	.281	.332	.478	.810	115.1	118.3	.348	1.3
2014	44	81	69	6	17	3	1	3	8	11	19	2	0	.246	.346	.449	.795	123.8	119.1	.355	0.5

Career totals

1,615

6,227

5,518

816

1,477

318

424th-most career 2B

260

233rd-most career HR

RBI

902

403rd-most career RBI

639

471st-most career BB

1,079

329th-most career SO

.2677

OBP

.3422

SLG

.4754

258th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8176

367th-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
2005-06-12	ATH @ ATL Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	2	4	12
2001-07-20	ATH @ KC Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	6	11
2000-06-21	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	1	1	10
2001-04-26	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	6	10
2003-08-06	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	5	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-09-17	ATH @ TB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

6× Gold Glove1× Silver Slugger

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.