Ray Lankford

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornJune 5, 1967 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 21, 1990

Final gameOctober 3, 2004

Seasons14 (1990–2004)

St. Louis Cardinals 1990–2000; San Diego Padres 2001; St. Louis Cardinals 2001; San Diego Padres 2002; St. Louis Cardinals 2004

Percentile snapshot

1998 season — qualified batters

154

626

47.5

533

36.1

65.8

156

44.9

74.7

8.2

81.6

RBI

105

77.8

89.2

151

2.5

84.8

46.8

.293

60.8

OBP

.391

84.8

SLG

.540

82.3

OPS

.932

82.9

wRC+

144.9

86.7

OPS+

143.2

84.2

wOBA

.406

84.2

sWAR

5.8

89.9

of 159 qualified 1998 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.6

84.3

OPS+

122.7

83.2

sWAR

41.4

98.1

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
1990	39	139	126	12	36	10	1	3	12	13	27	8	2	.286	.353	.452	.805	125.5	120.6	.368	1.0
1991	151	615	566	83	142	23	15	9	69	41	114	44	20	.251	.301	.392	.693	93.8	93.9	.317	1.9
1992	153	682	598	87	175	40	6	20	86	72	147	42	24	.293	.371	.480	.851	147.0	143.0	.386	6.4
1993	127	495	407	64	97	17	3	7	45	81	111	14	14	.238	.366	.346	.713	100.6	95.0	.334	1.9
1994	109	482	416	89	111	25	5	19	57	58	113	11	10	.267	.359	.488	.847	122.2	120.7	.373	3.1
1995	132	553	483	81	134	35	2	25	82	63	110	24	8	.277	.360	.513	.873	127.2	128.2	.381	3.9
1996	149	635	545	100	150	36	8	21	86	79	133	35	7	.275	.366	.486	.852	123.2	124.5	.373	4.1
1997	133	565	465	94	137	36	3	31	98	95	125	21	11	.295	.411	.585	.996	158.0	158.9	.429	6.2
1998	154	626	533	94	156	37	1	31	105	86	151	26	5	.293	.391	.540	.932	144.9	143.2	.406	5.8
1999	122	476	422	77	129	32	1	15	63	49	110	14	4	.306	.380	.493	.873	120.5	119.0	.384	2.3
2000	128	472	392	73	99	16	3	26	65	70	148	5	6	.253	.367	.508	.874	119.4	118.3	.381	2.1
2001	131	459	389	58	98	28	4	19	58	62	145	10	2	.252	.358	.491	.849	119.1	120.8	.364	2.1
2002	81	240	205	20	46	7	1	6	26	30	61	2	2	.224	.326	.356	.682	87.8	87.2	.311	0.1
2004	92	235	200	36	51	14	1	6	22	29	55	2	2	.255	.349	.425	.774	99.8	101.3	.338	0.4

Career totals

1,701

6,674

5,747

968

397th-most career R

1,561

356

300th-most career 2B

238

288th-most career HR

RBI

874

433rd-most career RBI

828

245th-most career BB

1,550

68th-most career SO

258

228th-most career SB

.2716

OBP

.3639

400th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4766

247th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8405

239th-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
1997-04-29	SF @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1991-09-15	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	4	4	1	1	1	1	0	10
1996-07-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	5	0	10
2001-04-04	STL @ COL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	3	1	10
2000-09-20	HOU @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10

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.