Jim Steels
San Diego Padres 1987; Texas Rangers 1988; San Francisco Giants 1989
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 62 | 81 | 68 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 2 | .191 | .300 | .235 | .535 | 53.8 | 46.8 | .265 | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 36 | 54 | 53 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 0 | .189 | .185 | .208 | .393 | -3.6 | 8.9 | .177 | -0.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .214 | .083 | .298 | -32.9 | -10.1 | .129 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-05-17 | TEX @ TOR Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1987-04-13 | SF @ SD Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1987-05-04 | PIT @ SD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1987-06-03 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1988-05-08 | NYY @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
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.