MLB / Players

Kelly Gruber

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 26, 1962 · Houston, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1984

Final gameJune 29, 1993

Seasons10 (1984–1993)

Toronto Blue Jays 1984–1992; California Angels 1993

Percentile snapshot

1990 season — qualified batters

150

56.3

662

76.6

592

81.3

84.4

162

71.9

87.5

81.3

91.4

RBI

118

97.7

37.5

29.7

60.9

75.8

.274

48.4

OBP

.330

35.2

SLG

.512

88.3

OPS

.842

84.4

wRC+

130.2

OPS+

132.4

85.2

wOBA

.372

78.1

sWAR

5.0

90.6

of 129 qualified 1990 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.0

43.4

OPS+

103.8

49.9

sWAR

13.8

90.3

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
1984	15	16	16	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	5	0	0	.063	.063	.250	.313	-37.8	-18.8	.129	-0.2
1985	5	13	13	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.231	.231	.231	.462	19.1	26.7	.209	-0.1
1986	87	152	143	20	28	4	1	5	15	5	27	2	5	.196	.220	.343	.563	43.4	50.2	.246	-0.6
1987	138	368	341	50	80	14	3	12	36	17	70	12	2	.235	.283	.399	.682	75.3	78.0	.297	0.4
1988	158	623	569	75	158	33	5	16	81	38	92	23	5	.278	.328	.438	.766	116.2	115.7	.345	3.7
1989	135	583	545	83	158	24	4	18	73	30	60	10	5	.290	.328	.448	.775	119.0	119.1	.351	3.5
1990	150	662	592	92	162	36	6	31	118	48	94	14	2	.274	.330	.512	.842	130.2	132.4	.372	5.0
1991	113	474	429	58	108	18	2	20	65	31	70	12	7	.252	.308	.443	.751	100.0	103.8	.332	1.8
1992	120	481	446	42	102	16	3	11	43	26	72	7	7	.229	.275	.352	.627	68.2	73.0	.286	0.0
1993	18	70	65	10	18	3	0	3	9	2	11	0	0	.277	.309	.462	.770	100.9	101.6	.343	0.3

Career totals

939

3,442

3,159

431

818

148

117

RBI

443

197

504

.2589

OBP

.3067

SLG

.4321

OPS

.7388

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
1988-04-11	NYY @ TOR Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	2	5	11
1989-04-16	KC @ TOR Gameday	6	4	4	1	1	1	6	10
1987-05-22	TOR @ SEA Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	2	10
1992-04-23	CLE @ TOR Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	4	10
1990-04-24	CLE @ TOR Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	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× 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.