MLB / Players

Garry Templeton

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 24, 1956 · Lockney, TX, USA

MLB debutAugust 9, 1976

Final gameOctober 5, 1991

Seasons16 (1976–1991)

St. Louis Cardinals 1976–1981; San Diego Padres 1982–1990; New York Mets 1991; San Diego Padres 1991

Percentile snapshot

1990 season — qualified batters

144

39.1

541

20.3

505

37.5

3.1

125

21.1

42.2

35.9

RBI

35.2

1.6

74.2

3.9

52.3

.248

17.2

OBP

.280

1.6

SLG

.362

21.9

OPS

.642

wRC+

69.5

0.8

OPS+

75.4

3.1

wOBA

.287

3.1

sWAR

0.5

10.2

of 129 qualified 1990 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

80.8

11.1

OPS+

86.3

17.4

sWAR

18.5

92.9

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
1976	53	225	213	32	62	8	2	1	17	7	33	11	7	.291	.314	.362	.675	90.5	91.5	.316	0.8
1977	153	644	621	94	200	19	18	8	79	15	70	28	24	.322	.336	.449	.786	110.3	111.1	.350	3.8
1978	155	675	647	82	181	31	13	2	47	22	87	34	11	.280	.303	.377	.680	76.9	80.2	.312	1.2
1979	154	696	672	105	211	32	19	9	62	18	91	26	10	.314	.331	.458	.790	112.6	112.9	.355	4.2
1980	118	524	504	83	161	19	9	4	43	18	43	31	15	.319	.342	.417	.759	108.3	108.6	.345	2.9
1981	80	350	333	47	96	16	8	1	33	14	55	8	12	.288	.315	.393	.709	96.2	98.6	.326	1.4
1982	141	601	563	76	139	25	8	6	64	26	82	27	16	.247	.279	.352	.631	74.5	79.6	.286	0.9
1983	126	490	460	39	121	20	2	3	40	21	57	16	6	.263	.294	.335	.629	72.1	77.4	.286	0.6
1984	148	535	493	40	127	19	3	2	35	39	81	8	3	.258	.312	.320	.633	67.7	79.4	.281	0.5
1985	148	596	546	63	154	30	2	6	55	41	88	16	6	.282	.332	.377	.709	90.6	100.1	.312	2.1
1986	147	549	510	42	126	21	2	2	44	35	86	10	5	.247	.296	.308	.603	56.6	68.7	.266	-0.3
1987	148	561	510	42	113	13	5	5	48	42	92	14	3	.222	.281	.296	.577	50.3	55.7	.259	-0.9
1988	110	392	362	35	90	15	7	3	36	20	50	8	2	.249	.286	.354	.639	75.8	84.8	.284	0.8
1989	142	536	506	43	129	26	3	6	40	23	80	1	3	.255	.286	.354	.639	74.6	82.7	.285	0.9
1990	144	541	505	45	125	25	3	9	59	24	59	1	4	.248	.280	.362	.642	69.5	75.4	.287	0.5
1991	112	293	276	25	61	10	2	3	26	10	38	3	2	.221	.246	.304	.550	46.1	54.6	.247	-0.9

Career totals

2,079

207th-most career G

8,208

257th-most career PA

7,721

185th-most career AB

893

495th-most career R

2,096

241st-most career H

329

378th-most career 2B

106

143rd-most career 3B

RBI

728

375

1,092

314th-most career SO

242

261st-most career SB

.2715

OBP

.3043

SLG

.3687

OPS

.6730

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
1977-08-01	STL @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	2	0	9
1979-07-06	STL @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1980-04-30	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	0	1	0	8
1977-09-18	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	4	0	7
1980-06-15	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	3	0	0	2	2	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.

Honors

2× Silver Slugger3× 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.