MLB / Players

Jay Buhner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 220 lb

BornAugust 13, 1964 · Louisville, KY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1987

Final gameOctober 7, 2001

Seasons15 (1987–2001)

New York Yankees 1987–1988; Seattle Mariners 1988–2001

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified batters

157

85.3

665

540

104

131

18.2

4.9

92.3

RBI

109

84.6

119

96.5

175

95.1

.243

4.9

OBP

.383

75.5

SLG

.506

76.9

OPS

.889

78.3

wRC+

134.6

81.1

OPS+

131.3

79.7

wOBA

.392

79.7

sWAR

4.3

76.9

of 144 qualified 1997 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.1

OPS+

123.8

84.4

sWAR

30.2

96.6

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
1987	7	23	22	0	5	2	0	0	1	1	6	0	0	.227	.261	.318	.579	52.3	54.0	.258	-0.1
1988	85	299	261	36	56	13	1	13	38	28	93	1	1	.215	.302	.421	.723	98.2	98.4	.326	0.7
1989	58	226	204	27	56	15	1	9	33	19	55	1	4	.275	.341	.490	.831	131.1	129.1	.375	1.4
1990	51	185	163	16	45	12	0	7	33	17	50	2	2	.276	.357	.479	.835	133.3	131.4	.377	1.1
1991	137	471	406	64	99	14	4	27	77	53	117	0	1	.244	.337	.498	.834	126.3	128.1	.368	2.4
1992	152	629	543	69	132	16	3	25	79	71	146	0	6	.243	.333	.422	.755	111.8	110.4	.346	2.3
1993	158	675	563	90	153	28	3	27	98	100	144	2	5	.272	.379	.476	.855	128.1	128.3	.381	3.7
1994	101	436	358	74	100	23	4	21	68	66	63	0	1	.279	.394	.542	.936	137.8	138.2	.407	3.0
1995	126	539	470	86	123	23	0	40	121	60	120	0	1	.262	.343	.566	.909	126.4	131.6	.386	2.9
1996	150	667	564	107	153	29	0	44	138	84	159	0	1	.271	.369	.557	.926	128.0	130.8	.395	3.8
1997	157	665	540	104	131	18	2	40	109	119	175	0	0	.243	.383	.506	.889	134.6	131.3	.392	4.3
1998	72	286	244	33	59	7	1	15	45	38	71	0	0	.242	.344	.463	.807	109.4	107.6	.356	1.0
1999	87	343	266	37	59	11	0	14	38	69	100	0	0	.222	.388	.421	.809	116.0	109.1	.370	1.4
2000	112	430	364	50	92	20	0	26	82	59	98	0	2	.253	.361	.522	.883	123.9	125.2	.381	2.2
2001	19	53	45	4	10	2	0	2	5	8	9	0	0	.222	.340	.400	.740	106.4	101.4	.334	0.1

Career totals

1,472

5,927

5,013

797

1,273

233

310

150th-most career HR

RBI

965

344th-most career RBI

792

279th-most career BB

1,406

114th-most career SO

.2539

OBP

.3586

SLG

.4935

149th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8521

189th-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	BB	TB
1996-05-11	KC @ SEA Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	6	1	11
1993-06-23	ATH @ SEA Gameday	7	2	4	1	1	1	4	0	10
1995-05-20	SEA @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	5	0	10
1993-07-21	SEA @ NYY Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	1	3	0	9
1991-08-12	ATH @ SEA Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9

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

1× Gold Glove1× 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.