Eric Yelding
Houston Astros 1989–1992; Chicago Cubs 1993
Percentile snapshot
1990 season — qualified batters
of 129 qualified 1990 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 70 | 102 | 90 | 19 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 19 | 11 | 5 | .233 | .290 | .256 | .546 | 62.1 | 60.3 | .263 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 142 | 559 | 511 | 69 | 130 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 39 | 87 | 64 | 25 | .254 | .305 | .297 | .602 | 70.0 | 68.9 | .284 | 0.1 |
| 1991 | 78 | 293 | 276 | 19 | 67 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 46 | 11 | 9 | .243 | .276 | .301 | .577 | 61.7 | 66.4 | .264 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 36.0 | 44.7 | .232 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 69 | 123 | 108 | 14 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 22 | 3 | 2 | .204 | .277 | .296 | .574 | 51.8 | 55.1 | .262 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-07-25 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1990-09-13 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1991-05-05 | HOU @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1993-09-24 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1993-06-20 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
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.