Gary Carter

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornApril 8, 1954 · Culver City, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1974

Final gameSeptember 27, 1992

Seasons19 (1974–1992)

Montreal Expos 1974–1984; New York Mets 1985–1989; San Francisco Giants 1990; Los Angeles Dodgers 1991; Montreal Expos 1992

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified batters

130

3.1

503

455

3.1

1.6

110

3.9

5.4

27.1

41.9

RBI

14.7

17.1

79.8

80.6

.242

10.9

OBP

.301

14.7

SLG

.358

21.7

OPS

.659

17.1

wRC+

95.1

26.4

OPS+

94.0

wOBA

.306

17.1

sWAR

2.4

44.2

of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.2

71.9

OPS+

115.7

72.6

sWAR

64.0

99.5

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
1974	9	29	27	5	11	0	1	1	6	1	2	2	0	.407	.414	.593	1.006	176.6	173.8	.454	0.4
1975	144	590	503	58	136	20	1	17	68	72	83	5	2	.270	.360	.416	.776	113.5	111.4	.362	3.0
1976	91	347	311	31	68	8	1	6	38	30	43	0	2	.219	.287	.309	.596	66.2	67.8	.284	0.1
1977	154	595	522	86	148	29	2	31	84	58	103	5	5	.284	.356	.525	.881	135.0	135.2	.387	5.8
1978	157	607	533	76	136	27	1	20	72	62	70	10	6	.255	.336	.422	.758	111.9	113.0	.345	4.3
1979	141	559	505	74	143	26	5	22	75	40	62	3	2	.283	.338	.485	.823	124.3	124.3	.368	4.8
1980	154	617	549	76	145	25	5	29	101	58	78	3	2	.264	.331	.486	.818	124.2	127.0	.363	5.2
1981	100	419	374	48	94	20	2	16	68	35	35	1	5	.251	.313	.444	.756	110.7	112.9	.344	2.9
1982	154	653	557	91	163	32	1	29	97	78	64	2	5	.293	.381	.510	.890	147.6	146.4	.400	7.4
1983	145	609	541	63	146	37	3	17	79	51	57	1	1	.270	.336	.444	.780	115.4	116.3	.352	4.5
1984	159	669	596	75	175	32	1	27	106	64	57	2	2	.294	.366	.487	.853	144.1	143.8	.386	7.0
1985	149	633	555	83	156	17	1	32	100	69	46	1	1	.281	.365	.488	.853	139.3	141.2	.380	6.4
1986	132	573	490	81	125	14	2	24	105	62	63	1	0	.255	.337	.439	.776	113.7	116.9	.346	3.9
1987	139	573	523	55	123	18	2	20	83	42	73	0	0	.235	.290	.392	.682	83.4	84.2	.305	1.8
1988	130	503	455	39	110	16	2	11	46	34	52	0	2	.242	.301	.358	.659	95.1	94.0	.306	2.4
1989	50	166	153	14	28	8	0	2	15	12	15	0	0	.183	.241	.275	.515	51.0	51.4	.245	0.0
1990	92	272	244	24	62	10	0	9	27	25	31	1	1	.254	.324	.406	.729	102.8	103.1	.330	1.7
1991	101	280	248	22	61	14	0	6	26	22	26	2	2	.246	.323	.375	.698	100.8	98.6	.323	1.5
1992	95	325	285	24	62	18	1	5	29	33	37	0	4	.218	.299	.340	.640	80.2	82.3	.296	1.1

Career totals

2,296

116th-most career G

9,019

164th-most career PA

7,971

156th-most career AB

1,025

328th-most career R

2,092

244th-most career H

371

265th-most career 2B

324

133rd-most career HR

RBI

1,225

148th-most career RBI

848

224th-most career BB

997

395th-most career SO

.2625

OBP

.3347

SLG

.4387

OPS

.7734

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1985-09-03	NYM @ SD Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	6	0	12
1977-04-20	PIT @ WSH Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	4	0	12
1980-05-31	WSH @ STL Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	5	0	10
1980-09-28	WSH @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	1	10
1987-08-05	PHI @ NYM Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	4	0	10

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

Hall of Fame, 2003 (BBWAA)

5× Silver Slugger3× Gold Glove2× All-Star Game MVP11× 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.