MLB / Players

Leon Durham

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 31, 1957 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 27, 1980

Final gameSeptember 17, 1989

Seasons10 (1980–1989)

St. Louis Cardinals 1980; Chicago Cubs 1981–1988; Cincinnati Reds 1988; St. Louis Cardinals 1989

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

141

557

25.4

484

28.6

127

21.4

13.5

87.3

59.5

RBI

40.5

70.6

24.6

48.4

38.1

.262

35.7

OBP

.350

60.3

SLG

.452

62.7

OPS

.803

64.3

wRC+

109.8

OPS+

113.0

54.8

wOBA

.356

63.5

sWAR

1.2

19.8

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.3

82.3

OPS+

123.5

sWAR

17.4

92.4

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
1980	96	330	303	42	82	15	4	8	42	18	55	8	5	.271	.309	.426	.735	99.8	100.9	.333	0.6
1981	87	355	328	42	95	14	6	10	35	27	53	25	11	.290	.344	.460	.804	122.4	122.1	.366	1.6
1982	148	609	539	84	168	33	7	22	90	66	77	28	14	.312	.388	.521	.909	151.0	149.5	.407	5.4
1983	100	409	337	58	87	18	8	12	55	66	83	12	6	.258	.381	.466	.847	130.2	129.7	.382	2.6
1984	137	548	473	86	132	30	4	23	96	69	86	16	8	.279	.369	.505	.874	135.9	135.5	.391	3.0
1985	153	607	542	58	153	32	2	21	75	64	99	7	6	.282	.357	.465	.822	114.1	118.8	.362	1.6
1986	141	557	484	66	127	18	7	20	65	67	98	8	7	.262	.350	.452	.803	109.8	113.0	.356	1.2
1987	131	492	439	70	120	22	1	27	63	51	92	2	2	.273	.348	.513	.860	118.9	120.5	.373	1.7
1988	45	138	124	14	27	9	1	4	8	14	32	0	1	.218	.297	.403	.700	93.0	96.6	.315	0.0
1989	29	22	18	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	4	0	1	.056	.182	.111	.293	-14.3	-15.1	.163	-0.4

Career totals

1,067

4,067

3,587

522

992

192

147

RBI

530

444

679

106

.2766

OBP

.3556

SLG

.4753

259th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8309

277th-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
1982-06-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
1984-05-24	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1981-05-21	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1980-09-06	STL @ HOU Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	4	0	8
1985-08-29	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	5	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 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.