MLB / Players

Jeff Blauser

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 8, 1965 · Los Gatos, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 5, 1987

Final gameOctober 3, 1999

Seasons13 (1987–1999)

Atlanta Braves 1987–1997; Chicago Cubs 1998–1999

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified batters

151

54.5

623

519

35.7

63.6

160

60.1

57.3

64.3

43.4

RBI

36.4

66.4

101

27.3

88.8

.308

84.6

OBP

.405

87.4

SLG

.482

OPS

.886

76.9

wRC+

133.6

OPS+

130.7

77.6

wOBA

.394

82.5

sWAR

5.4

90.9

of 144 qualified 1997 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.3

54.3

OPS+

102.9

47.8

sWAR

27.9

96.1

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	51	187	165	11	40	6	3	2	15	18	34	7	3	.242	.328	.352	.679	78.5	76.0	.314	0.4
1988	18	74	67	7	16	3	1	2	7	2	11	0	1	.239	.268	.403	.671	82.3	85.6	.303	0.1
1989	142	507	456	63	123	24	2	12	46	38	101	5	2	.270	.325	.410	.735	107.7	105.8	.337	2.5
1990	115	429	386	46	104	24	3	8	39	35	70	3	5	.269	.338	.409	.747	103.8	100.0	.344	2.2
1991	129	415	352	49	91	14	3	11	54	54	59	5	6	.259	.358	.409	.767	114.5	111.0	.353	2.7
1992	123	403	343	61	90	19	3	14	46	46	82	5	5	.262	.354	.458	.811	129.4	124.3	.371	3.4
1993	161	710	597	110	182	29	2	15	73	85	109	16	6	.305	.401	.436	.837	132.9	126.0	.384	6.1
1994	96	434	380	56	98	21	4	6	45	38	64	1	3	.258	.329	.382	.710	87.3	85.2	.322	1.2
1995	115	504	431	60	91	16	2	12	31	57	107	8	5	.211	.319	.341	.660	77.2	73.8	.307	0.8
1996	83	312	265	48	65	14	1	10	35	40	54	6	0	.245	.356	.419	.775	105.5	102.7	.350	1.6
1997	151	623	519	90	160	31	4	17	70	70	101	5	1	.308	.405	.482	.886	133.6	130.7	.394	5.4
1998	119	435	361	49	79	11	3	4	26	60	93	2	2	.219	.340	.299	.639	74.0	67.9	.306	0.6
1999	104	238	200	41	48	5	2	9	26	26	52	2	2	.240	.347	.420	.767	97.8	94.7	.346	0.9

Career totals

1,407

5,271

4,522

691

1,187

217

122

RBI

513

569

937

465th-most career SO

.2625

OBP

.3536

SLG

.4060

OPS

.7596

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
1992-07-12	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	5	1	12
1993-05-07	ATL @ COL Gameday	3	3	3	1	2	4	1	10
1994-06-24	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	1	0	9
1989-08-26	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9
1991-06-06	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	4	1	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.

Honors

1× Silver Slugger2× 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.