Pat Meares
Minnesota Twins 1993–1998; Pittsburgh Pirates 1999–2001
Percentile snapshot
2000 season — qualified batters
of 165 qualified 2000 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 111 | 361 | 346 | 33 | 87 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 7 | 52 | 4 | 5 | .251 | .266 | .309 | .575 | 49.9 | 54.2 | .262 | -0.4 |
| 1994 | 80 | 254 | 229 | 29 | 61 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 14 | 50 | 5 | 1 | .266 | .310 | .354 | .664 | 70.6 | 70.4 | .300 | 0.3 |
| 1995 | 116 | 425 | 390 | 57 | 105 | 19 | 4 | 12 | 49 | 15 | 68 | 10 | 4 | .269 | .311 | .431 | .742 | 88.1 | 90.0 | .328 | 1.3 |
| 1996 | 152 | 554 | 517 | 66 | 138 | 26 | 7 | 8 | 67 | 17 | 90 | 9 | 4 | .267 | .298 | .391 | .689 | 68.4 | 71.2 | .303 | 0.3 |
| 1997 | 134 | 483 | 439 | 63 | 121 | 23 | 3 | 10 | 60 | 18 | 86 | 7 | 7 | .276 | .323 | .410 | .733 | 88.4 | 89.1 | .325 | 1.6 |
| 1998 | 149 | 581 | 543 | 56 | 141 | 26 | 3 | 9 | 70 | 24 | 86 | 7 | 4 | .260 | .296 | .368 | .664 | 68.5 | 71.0 | .294 | 0.4 |
| 1999 | 21 | 104 | 91 | 15 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .308 | .382 | .352 | .734 | 94.4 | 88.2 | .342 | 0.4 |
| 2000 | 132 | 514 | 462 | 55 | 111 | 22 | 2 | 13 | 47 | 36 | 91 | 1 | 0 | .240 | .305 | .381 | .685 | 69.4 | 72.7 | .302 | 0.3 |
| 2001 | 87 | 284 | 270 | 27 | 57 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 10 | 45 | 0 | 2 | .211 | .244 | .304 | .548 | 32.4 | 40.4 | .238 | -1.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-04-02 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1994-06-19 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1998-04-12 | MIN @ KC Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1996-08-09 | MIN @ SEA Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1997-05-05 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
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.