MLB / Players

Greg Gagne

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 12, 1961 · Fall River, MA, USA

MLB debutJune 5, 1983

Final gameSeptember 27, 1997

Seasons15 (1983–1997)

Minnesota Twins 1983–1992; Kansas City Royals 1993–1995; Los Angeles Dodgers 1996–1997

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified batters

144

32.2

553

19.6

514

33.6

129

15.4

9.1

44.8

18.9

RBI

23.8

8.4

120

16.8

13.3

.251

12.6

OBP

.298

4.9

SLG

.354

8.4

OPS

.652

4.2

wRC+

74.4

4.9

OPS+

76.8

5.6

wOBA

.293

3.5

sWAR

0.8

14.7

of 144 qualified 1997 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.9

12.5

OPS+

83.3

13.6

sWAR

16.1

91.7

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
1983	10	29	27	2	3	1	0	0	3	0	6	0	0	.111	.103	.148	.252	-52.9	-32.6	.108	-0.4
1984	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.8	-100.0	.000	0.0
1985	114	322	293	37	66	15	3	2	23	20	57	10	4	.225	.279	.317	.596	58.1	59.6	.272	-0.1
1986	156	524	472	63	118	22	6	12	54	30	108	12	10	.250	.301	.398	.700	86.5	87.1	.313	1.7
1987	137	478	437	68	116	28	7	10	40	25	84	6	6	.265	.310	.430	.740	91.2	91.6	.324	1.7
1988	149	507	461	70	109	20	6	14	48	27	110	15	7	.236	.288	.397	.685	87.2	88.8	.308	1.7
1989	149	491	460	69	125	29	7	9	48	17	80	11	4	.272	.298	.424	.721	94.1	96.5	.325	2.1
1990	138	423	388	38	91	22	3	7	38	24	76	8	8	.235	.280	.361	.640	71.2	74.0	.293	0.7
1991	139	447	408	52	108	23	3	8	42	26	72	11	9	.265	.310	.395	.705	90.4	91.2	.319	1.7
1992	146	473	439	53	108	23	0	7	39	19	83	6	7	.246	.280	.346	.626	70.5	73.3	.289	0.7
1993	159	581	540	66	151	32	3	10	57	33	93	10	12	.280	.319	.406	.724	89.7	90.4	.327	2.0
1994	107	409	375	39	97	23	3	7	51	27	79	10	17	.259	.314	.392	.706	80.6	79.7	.317	0.9
1995	120	482	430	58	110	25	4	6	49	38	60	3	5	.256	.316	.374	.690	78.9	79.6	.311	0.9
1996	128	487	428	48	109	13	2	10	55	50	93	4	2	.255	.333	.364	.698	89.4	91.8	.312	1.6
1997	144	553	514	49	129	20	3	9	57	31	120	2	5	.251	.298	.354	.652	74.4	76.8	.293	0.8

Career totals

1,798

417th-most career G

6,207

5,673

712

1,440

296

111

RBI

604

367

1,121

292nd-most career SO

108

.2538

OBP

.3019

SLG

.3823

OPS

.6842

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
1986-10-04	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	4	11
1986-08-22	TOR @ MIN Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	2	4	10
1989-06-19	MIL @ MIN Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	2	8
1994-06-03	KC @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	2	8
1987-09-16	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	2	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.