Jesse Barfield
Toronto Blue Jays 1981–1988; New York Yankees 1989; Toronto Blue Jays 1989; New York Yankees 1990–1992
Percentile snapshot
1990 season — qualified batters
of 129 qualified 1990 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 25 | 100 | 95 | 7 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 3 | .232 | .270 | .368 | .638 | 76.3 | 79.1 | .294 | -0.1 |
| 1982 | 139 | 446 | 394 | 54 | 97 | 13 | 2 | 18 | 58 | 42 | 79 | 1 | 4 | .246 | .323 | .426 | .749 | 97.6 | 97.6 | .335 | 0.7 |
| 1983 | 128 | 420 | 388 | 58 | 98 | 13 | 3 | 27 | 68 | 22 | 110 | 2 | 5 | .253 | .296 | .510 | .806 | 111.1 | 113.0 | .351 | 1.4 |
| 1984 | 110 | 360 | 320 | 51 | 91 | 14 | 1 | 14 | 49 | 35 | 81 | 8 | 2 | .284 | .357 | .466 | .822 | 124.2 | 124.1 | .364 | 1.8 |
| 1985 | 155 | 612 | 539 | 94 | 156 | 34 | 9 | 27 | 84 | 66 | 143 | 22 | 8 | .289 | .369 | .536 | .905 | 144.3 | 143.7 | .395 | 4.7 |
| 1986 | 158 | 671 | 589 | 107 | 170 | 35 | 2 | 40 | 108 | 69 | 146 | 8 | 8 | .289 | .368 | .559 | .927 | 147.2 | 147.8 | .401 | 5.5 |
| 1987 | 159 | 654 | 590 | 89 | 155 | 25 | 3 | 28 | 84 | 58 | 141 | 3 | 5 | .263 | .331 | .458 | .788 | 104.5 | 106.0 | .341 | 1.9 |
| 1988 | 137 | 520 | 468 | 62 | 114 | 21 | 5 | 18 | 56 | 41 | 108 | 7 | 3 | .244 | .302 | .425 | .728 | 100.5 | 104.4 | .322 | 1.1 |
| 1989 | 150 | 615 | 521 | 79 | 122 | 23 | 1 | 23 | 67 | 87 | 150 | 5 | 5 | .234 | .345 | .415 | .760 | 117.0 | 114.5 | .350 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 153 | 570 | 476 | 69 | 117 | 21 | 2 | 25 | 78 | 82 | 150 | 4 | 3 | .246 | .359 | .456 | .815 | 128.6 | 126.0 | .370 | 3.2 |
| 1991 | 84 | 321 | 284 | 37 | 64 | 12 | 0 | 17 | 48 | 36 | 80 | 1 | 0 | .225 | .312 | .447 | .759 | 103.1 | 107.2 | .335 | 0.8 |
| 1992 | 30 | 105 | 95 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 27 | 1 | 1 | .137 | .210 | .221 | .431 | 11.2 | 21.6 | .198 | -0.9 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-07-01 | ATH @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 1990-08-28 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 1987-09-26 | DET @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1983-09-02 | DET @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1983-09-11 | ATH @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.