Rey Sanchez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 5, 1967 · Rio Piedras, P.R.

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1991

Final gameJune 8, 2005

Seasons15 (1991–2005)

Chicago Cubs 1991–1997; New York Yankees 1997; San Francisco Giants 1998; Kansas City Royals 1999–2000; Atlanta Braves 2001; Kansas City Royals 2001; Boston Red Sox 2002; New York Mets 2003; Seattle Mariners 2003; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2004; New York Yankees 2005

Percentile snapshot

2001 season — qualified batters

149

49.4

579

30.1

544

53.8

6.4

153

46.8

1.9

RBI

0.6

93.6

55.8

82.7

.281

55.8

OBP

.300

3.8

SLG

.336

0.6

OPS

.637

0.6

wRC+

59.2

0.6

OPS+

63.0

wOBA

.282

1.3

sWAR

-0.3

1.3

of 157 qualified 2001 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

66.0

1.8

OPS+

68.5

2.1

sWAR

1.0

63.7

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
1991	13	27	23	1	6	0	0	0	2	4	3	0	0	.261	.370	.261	.631	88.8	77.3	.316	0.1
1992	74	275	255	24	64	14	3	1	19	10	17	2	1	.251	.285	.341	.626	70.7	74.7	.288	0.3
1993	105	373	344	35	97	11	2	0	28	15	22	1	1	.282	.316	.326	.642	68.8	73.8	.287	0.3
1994	96	323	291	26	83	13	1	0	24	20	29	2	5	.285	.345	.337	.682	80.5	80.2	.311	0.5
1995	114	453	428	57	119	22	2	3	27	14	48	6	4	.278	.301	.360	.661	72.0	74.9	.296	0.1
1996	95	324	289	28	61	9	0	1	12	22	42	7	1	.211	.272	.253	.525	32.8	38.7	.239	-1.2
1997	135	370	343	35	94	21	0	2	27	16	47	4	6	.274	.307	.353	.660	69.7	72.7	.296	0.3
1998	109	339	316	44	90	14	2	2	30	16	47	0	0	.285	.325	.361	.686	85.7	85.3	.311	1.0
1999	134	518	479	66	141	18	6	2	56	22	48	11	5	.294	.329	.370	.698	75.3	76.8	.312	0.8
2000	143	555	509	68	139	18	2	1	38	28	55	7	3	.273	.314	.322	.637	59.5	60.0	.290	-0.3
2001	149	579	544	56	153	18	6	0	37	15	49	11	1	.281	.300	.336	.637	59.2	63.0	.282	-0.3
2002	107	386	357	46	102	12	3	1	38	17	31	2	2	.286	.318	.345	.662	73.4	74.9	.295	0.3
2003	102	369	344	33	86	8	2	0	23	16	39	2	1	.250	.285	.285	.570	49.3	53.9	.256	-0.7
2004	91	307	285	23	70	14	3	2	26	12	28	0	1	.246	.281	.337	.617	59.8	61.7	.274	-0.3
2005	23	48	43	7	12	1	0	0	2	2	3	0	1	.279	.326	.302	.628	73.1	71.1	.288	0.0

Career totals

1,490

5,246

4,850

549

1,317

193

RBI

389

229

508

.2715

OBP

.3078

SLG

.3338

OPS

.6416

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
1995-07-09	CHC @ PHI Gameday	6	1	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
2001-07-25	KC @ SEA Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1992-08-29	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
2004-06-11	COL @ TB Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1999-09-20	KC @ SEA Gameday	4	4	4	2	0	0	2	1	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.