MLB / Players

Lenny Dykstra

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1963 · Santa Ana, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 3, 1985

Final gameMay 18, 1996

Seasons12 (1985–1996)

New York Mets 1985–1989; Philadelphia Phillies 1989–1996

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified batters

386

22.4

315

4.5

70.5

10.9

82.1

83.3

17.3

RBI

1.3

92.9

80.8

35.3

.273

38.5

OBP

.404

87.2

SLG

.435

43.6

OPS

.839

62.8

wRC+

120.6

68.6

OPS+

118.2

wOBA

.375

67.3

sWAR

2.4

of 157 qualified 1994 batters (min 356 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.9

84.8

OPS+

119.6

78.8

sWAR

35.1

97.3

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
1985	83	273	236	40	60	9	3	1	19	30	24	15	2	.254	.338	.331	.669	97.6	91.6	.320	1.0
1986	147	498	431	77	127	27	7	8	45	58	55	31	7	.295	.377	.445	.822	136.4	130.9	.379	4.1
1987	132	479	431	86	123	37	3	10	43	40	67	27	7	.285	.352	.455	.806	119.9	118.2	.361	3.0
1988	126	466	429	57	116	19	3	8	33	30	43	30	8	.270	.321	.385	.706	109.2	107.7	.326	2.3
1989	146	584	511	66	121	32	4	7	32	60	53	30	12	.237	.318	.356	.674	98.0	94.6	.317	2.1
1990	149	691	590	106	192	35	3	9	60	89	48	33	5	.325	.418	.441	.859	142.0	136.9	.393	6.1
1991	63	284	246	48	73	13	5	3	12	37	20	24	4	.297	.391	.427	.818	138.4	131.1	.380	2.4
1992	85	392	345	53	104	18	0	6	39	40	32	30	5	.301	.375	.406	.781	125.8	121.1	.361	2.7
1993	161	773	637	143	194	44	6	19	66	129	64	37	12	.305	.420	.482	.902	147.7	143.1	.407	7.5
1994	84	386	315	68	86	26	5	5	24	68	44	15	4	.273	.404	.435	.839	120.6	118.2	.375	2.4
1995	62	292	254	37	67	15	1	2	18	33	28	10	5	.264	.353	.354	.707	91.1	87.7	.327	0.7
1996	40	164	134	21	35	6	3	3	13	26	25	3	1	.261	.387	.418	.804	116.7	112.2	.366	0.9

Career totals

1,278

5,282

4,559

802

1,298

281

RBI

404

640

468th-most career BB

503

285

187th-most career SB

.2847

OBP

.3745

239th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4185

OPS

.7930

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
1993-10-20	TOR @ PHI Gameday	5	4	3	1	0	2	4	1	10
1996-04-17	PHI @ WSH Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	0	2	0	9
1993-09-09	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1994-05-13	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	4	4	2	1	0	0	1	8
1987-05-23	LAD @ NYM Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8

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× Silver Slugger3× 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.