Pat Borders

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornMay 14, 1963 · Columbus, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 6, 1988

Final gameJuly 27, 2005

Seasons17 (1988–2005)

Toronto Blue Jays 1988–1994; Houston Astros 1995; Kansas City Royals 1995; California Angels 1996; Chicago White Sox 1996; St. Louis Cardinals 1996; Cleveland Indians 1997–1999; Toronto Blue Jays 1999; Seattle Mariners 2001–2003; Minnesota Twins 2004; Seattle Mariners 2004–2005

Percentile snapshot

1993 season — qualified batters

138

19.5

520

9.4

488

21.5

124

10.1

63.1

27.5

RBI

22.1

0.7

70.5

12.1

79.2

.254

14.8

OBP

.285

1.3

SLG

.371

17.4

OPS

.656

5.4

wRC+

72.0

OPS+

75.3

wOBA

.295

sWAR

1.1

16.8

of 150 qualified 1993 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

74.5

5.4

OPS+

78.3

7.8

sWAR

9.4

86.3

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
1988	56	160	154	15	42	6	3	5	21	3	24	0	0	.273	.285	.448	.733	102.0	104.8	.324	0.9
1989	94	256	241	22	62	11	1	3	29	11	45	2	1	.257	.290	.349	.639	77.4	81.5	.290	0.6
1990	125	368	346	36	99	24	2	15	49	18	57	0	1	.286	.319	.497	.816	123.0	125.3	.361	3.3
1991	105	312	291	22	71	17	0	5	36	11	45	0	0	.244	.271	.354	.625	65.6	70.5	.281	0.7
1992	138	521	480	47	116	26	2	13	53	33	75	1	1	.242	.290	.385	.676	82.5	86.2	.307	1.9
1993	138	520	488	38	124	30	0	9	55	20	66	2	2	.254	.285	.371	.656	72.0	75.3	.295	1.1
1994	85	311	295	24	73	13	1	3	26	15	50	1	1	.247	.284	.329	.613	57.4	57.8	.277	0.0
1995	63	187	178	15	37	8	1	4	13	9	29	0	0	.208	.246	.331	.577	44.0	50.1	.254	-0.3
1996	76	234	220	15	61	7	0	5	18	9	43	0	2	.277	.306	.377	.683	75.7	76.3	.305	0.6
1997	55	170	159	17	47	7	1	4	15	9	27	0	2	.296	.341	.428	.769	99.4	97.9	.343	1.0
1998	54	175	160	12	38	6	0	0	6	10	40	0	2	.238	.289	.275	.564	46.5	47.1	.261	-0.1
1999	12	35	34	3	9	0	1	1	6	1	5	0	1	.265	.286	.412	.697	70.5	74.0	.305	0.0
2001	5	7	6	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	181.0	175.1	.447	0.1
2002	4	4	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.750	1.250	242.7	235.7	.539	0.1
2003	12	15	14	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	5	0	0	.143	.200	.214	.414	10.9	12.4	.192	-0.1
2004	38	99	95	9	22	6	0	1	10	1	22	3	1	.232	.247	.326	.574	43.2	47.8	.252	-0.1
2005	39	125	117	12	23	5	0	1	7	4	22	0	0	.197	.228	.265	.493	27.2	33.8	.216	-0.4

Career totals

1,099

3,499

3,282

289

831

168

RBI

346

155

557

.2532

OBP

.2878

SLG

.3748

OPS

.6626

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
1996-06-29	ATH @ LAA Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	1	9
1992-07-31	NYY @ TOR Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	5	0	7
1992-08-20	TOR @ MIL Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	2	0	7
1993-05-21	MIN @ TOR Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	2	0	7
1990-08-08	DET @ TOR Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	3	0	6

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× World Series MVP

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.