Pat Tabler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 2, 1958 · Hamilton, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 21, 1981

Final gameOctober 4, 1992

Seasons12 (1981–1992)

Chicago Cubs 1981–1982; Cleveland Indians 1983–1988; Kansas City Royals 1988–1990; New York Mets 1990; Toronto Blue Jays 1991–1992

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified batters

151

57.1

618

54.1

553

54.1

19.5

170

80.5

81.2

45.1

19.5

RBI

61.7

42.1

49.6

30.1

75.9

.307

86.5

OBP

.369

69.2

SLG

.439

40.6

OPS

.809

53.4

wRC+

112.9

53.4

OPS+

112.6

54.1

wOBA

.355

51.1

sWAR

1.7

29.3

of 134 qualified 1987 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.7

42.9

OPS+

98.5

38.8

sWAR

6.8

82.5

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
1981	35	117	101	11	19	3	1	1	5	13	26	0	1	.188	.281	.267	.548	55.3	53.2	.271	-0.2
1982	25	94	85	9	20	4	2	1	7	6	20	0	0	.235	.287	.365	.652	78.1	79.4	.301	0.1
1983	124	492	430	56	125	23	5	6	65	56	63	2	4	.291	.370	.409	.779	116.0	111.5	.356	2.2
1984	144	528	473	66	137	21	3	10	68	47	62	3	1	.290	.354	.410	.764	112.1	109.6	.347	1.9
1985	117	438	404	47	111	18	3	5	59	27	55	0	6	.275	.321	.371	.692	89.4	89.7	.311	0.0
1986	130	508	473	61	154	29	2	6	48	29	75	3	1	.326	.368	.433	.801	119.3	118.1	.358	1.8
1987	151	618	553	66	170	34	3	11	86	51	84	5	2	.307	.369	.439	.809	112.9	112.6	.355	1.7
1988	130	498	444	53	125	22	3	2	66	46	68	3	3	.282	.349	.358	.708	102.0	98.3	.329	0.7
1989	123	434	390	36	101	11	1	2	42	37	42	0	0	.259	.325	.308	.633	84.3	80.7	.302	-0.3
1990	92	266	238	18	65	15	1	2	29	23	29	0	2	.273	.338	.370	.708	100.2	99.5	.326	0.4
1991	82	222	185	20	40	5	1	1	21	29	21	0	0	.216	.318	.270	.588	61.6	63.6	.275	-1.1
1992	49	147	135	11	34	5	0	0	16	11	14	0	0	.252	.306	.289	.595	66.7	66.2	.284	-0.4

Career totals

1,202

4,362

3,911

454

1,101

190

RBI

512

375

559

.2815

OBP

.3451

SLG

.3789

OPS

.7240

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
1984-09-25	SEA @ CLE Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	6	0	8
1987-06-10	CLE @ LAA Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	0	8
1988-05-10	CLE @ LAA Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	3	0	7
1985-07-12	KC @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	0	7
1987-04-10	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	1	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.

Honors

1× 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.