MLB / Players

Larry Walker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 1, 1966 · Maple Ridge, BC, CAN

MLB debutAugust 16, 1989

Final gameOctober 2, 2005

Seasons17 (1989–2005)

Montreal Expos 1989–1994; Colorado Rockies 1995–2004; St. Louis Cardinals 2004–2005

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified batters

143

33.9

564

31.5

454

9.1

61.2

129

18.2

22.4

89.1

RBI

53.9

92.7

46.7

54.5

29.1

.284

OBP

.422

96.4

SLG

.476

66.1

OPS

.898

80.6

wRC+

124.6

72.7

OPS+

120.2

70.3

wOBA

.397

85.5

sWAR

2.9

58.2

of 166 qualified 2003 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

142.4

97.1

OPS+

139.4

95.3

sWAR

58.7

99.3

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
1989	20	56	47	4	8	0	0	0	4	5	13	1	1	.170	.264	.170	.434	31.9	27.0	.225	-0.3
1990	133	478	419	59	101	18	3	19	51	49	112	21	7	.241	.326	.434	.761	112.3	111.9	.344	1.6
1991	137	539	487	59	141	30	2	16	64	42	102	14	9	.290	.349	.458	.807	130.2	128.6	.366	2.9
1992	143	583	528	85	159	31	4	23	93	41	97	18	6	.301	.353	.506	.859	141.7	142.6	.381	4.1
1993	138	582	490	85	130	24	5	22	86	80	76	29	7	.265	.371	.469	.841	118.4	122.5	.366	2.5
1994	103	452	395	76	127	44	2	19	86	47	74	15	5	.322	.394	.587	.981	153.0	152.9	.421	3.9
1995	131	562	494	96	151	31	5	36	101	49	72	16	3	.306	.381	.607	.988	131.5	133.2	.420	3.4
1996	83	304	272	58	75	18	4	18	58	20	58	18	2	.276	.342	.570	.912	113.3	115.0	.391	1.4
1997	153	664	568	143	208	46	4	49	130	78	90	33	8	.366	.452	.720	1.172	180.9	175.0	.495	8.1
1998	130	524	454	113	165	46	3	23	67	64	61	14	4	.363	.445	.630	1.075	164.7	155.9	.466	5.4
1999	127	513	438	108	166	26	4	37	115	57	52	11	4	.379	.458	.710	1.168	165.2	161.0	.491	5.3
2000	87	372	314	64	97	21	7	9	51	46	40	5	5	.309	.409	.506	.915	108.6	106.9	.401	1.2
2001	142	601	497	107	174	35	3	38	123	82	103	14	5	.350	.449	.662	1.111	163.1	156.8	.467	6.1
2002	136	553	477	95	161	40	4	26	104	65	73	6	5	.338	.421	.602	1.023	155.0	147.8	.443	4.9
2003	143	564	454	86	129	25	7	16	79	98	87	7	4	.284	.422	.476	.898	124.6	120.2	.397	2.9
2004	82	316	258	51	77	16	4	17	47	49	57	6	0	.298	.424	.589	1.013	159.3	154.2	.436	3.0
2005	100	367	315	66	91	20	1	15	52	41	64	2	1	.289	.384	.502	.886	135.7	132.3	.389	2.3

Career totals

1,988

266th-most career G

8,030

290th-most career PA

6,907

328th-most career AB

1,355

109th-most career R

2,160

205th-most career H

471

91st-most career 2B

383

70th-most career HR

RBI

1,311

107th-most career RBI

913

176th-most career BB

1,231

215th-most career SO

230

288th-most career SB

.3127

93rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.4002

65th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5652

18th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9654

21st-highest career OPS

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
2004-06-25	COL @ CLE Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	3	5	2	14
1999-04-28	COL @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	3	8	0	13
1996-05-21	PIT @ COL Gameday	5	4	4	1	1	2	6	0	13
1997-04-05	COL @ WSH Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	3	5	0	13
2001-09-24	SD @ COL Gameday	4	5	4	1	0	2	3	1	11

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

Hall of Fame, 2020 (BBWAA)

7× Gold Glove3× Silver Slugger1× Most Valuable Player5× 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.