Kevin Seitzer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 26, 1962 · Springfield, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1986

Final gameSeptember 28, 1997

Seasons12 (1986–1997)

Kansas City Royals 1986–1991; Milwaukee Brewers 1992–1993; Oakland Athletics 1993; Milwaukee Brewers 1994–1995; Cleveland Indians 1996; Milwaukee Brewers 1996; Cleveland Indians 1997

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified batters

154

68.7

675

75.5

573

46.9

187

87.8

72.8

50.3

31.3

RBI

41.5

85.7

69.4

41.5

76.2

.326

90.5

OBP

.416

93.2

SLG

.466

48.3

OPS

.882

70.1

wRC+

124.4

73.5

OPS+

121.4

wOBA

.393

78.2

sWAR

2.9

60.5

of 148 qualified 1996 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.7

70.9

OPS+

110.8

63.7

sWAR

29.9

96.5

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
1986	28	116	96	16	31	4	1	2	11	19	14	0	0	.323	.440	.448	.888	151.9	142.5	.408	0.9
1987	161	725	641	105	207	33	8	15	83	80	85	12	7	.323	.399	.470	.869	133.4	128.7	.387	5.5
1988	149	643	559	90	170	32	5	5	60	72	64	10	8	.304	.388	.406	.794	128.6	123.5	.366	4.7
1989	160	715	597	78	168	17	2	4	48	102	76	17	8	.281	.387	.337	.723	114.3	107.4	.345	4.0
1990	158	697	622	91	171	31	5	6	38	67	66	7	5	.275	.346	.370	.716	106.0	102.7	.334	3.2
1991	85	267	234	28	62	11	3	1	25	29	21	4	1	.265	.350	.350	.700	97.0	94.8	.325	0.9
1992	148	615	540	74	146	35	1	5	71	57	44	13	11	.270	.337	.367	.704	100.4	99.9	.326	2.4
1993	120	471	417	45	112	16	2	11	57	44	48	7	7	.269	.338	.396	.733	102.5	100.8	.336	1.6
1994	80	348	309	44	97	24	2	5	49	30	38	2	1	.314	.375	.453	.828	111.5	109.6	.369	1.4
1995	132	570	492	56	153	33	3	5	69	64	57	2	0	.311	.395	.421	.815	113.5	108.9	.372	2.6
1996	154	675	573	85	187	35	3	13	78	87	79	6	1	.326	.416	.466	.882	124.4	121.4	.393	2.9
1997	64	220	198	27	53	14	0	2	24	18	25	0	0	.268	.326	.369	.694	80.6	79.8	.314	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1993	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.3	0.00	.000	27.00	-3.00	-72.6	—	1.6

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,439

6,062

5,278

739

1,557

285

RBI

613

669

419th-most career BB

617

.2950

307th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3754

233rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4043

OPS

.7797

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

.0000

K/9

27.00

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
1987-08-02	BOS @ KC Gameday	6	4	6	1	2	7	0	13
1990-06-21	KC @ MIN Gameday	6	2	5	2	1	3	0	10
1996-04-05	MIL @ SEA Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	1	9
1990-05-27	NYY @ KC Gameday	3	2	3	2	1	2	1	8
1992-07-17	MIL @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1993-05-02	ATH @ CLE Gameday	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	0

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

2× 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.