Robin Ventura

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 14, 1967 · Santa Maria, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1989

Final gameOctober 2, 2004

Seasons16 (1989–2004)

Chicago White Sox 1989–1998; New York Mets 1999–2001; New York Yankees 2002; Los Angeles Dodgers 2003; New York Yankees 2003; Los Angeles Dodgers 2004

Percentile snapshot

2002 season — qualified batters

141

23.4

562

22.7

465

6.5

27.9

115

2.6

1.3

72.7

RBI

71.4

101

39.6

22.7

79.2

.247

OBP

.368

70.1

SLG

.458

55.2

OPS

.826

61.7

wRC+

121.2

64.3

OPS+

121.2

67.5

wOBA

.360

59.1

sWAR

3.5

59.7

of 155 qualified 2002 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.2

69.8

OPS+

114.9

71.9

sWAR

43.5

98.3

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
1989	16	58	45	5	8	3	0	0	7	8	6	0	0	.178	.298	.244	.543	62.6	56.8	.268	0.0
1990	150	565	493	48	123	17	1	5	54	55	53	1	4	.249	.324	.318	.643	85.1	82.6	.304	1.2
1991	157	705	606	92	172	25	1	23	100	80	67	2	4	.284	.367	.442	.810	127.6	125.1	.368	4.7
1992	157	694	592	85	167	38	1	16	93	93	71	2	4	.282	.375	.431	.806	129.7	128.2	.369	5.1
1993	157	669	554	85	145	27	1	22	94	105	82	1	6	.262	.379	.433	.812	121.1	121.7	.365	4.2
1994	109	474	401	57	113	15	1	18	78	61	69	3	1	.282	.373	.459	.832	110.7	116.3	.358	2.3
1995	135	577	492	79	145	22	0	26	93	75	98	4	3	.295	.384	.498	.882	129.6	133.1	.384	4.0
1996	158	674	586	96	168	31	2	34	105	78	81	1	3	.287	.368	.520	.888	123.1	126.7	.381	4.2
1997	54	220	183	27	48	10	1	6	26	34	21	0	0	.262	.373	.426	.799	110.9	112.3	.352	1.1
1998	161	674	590	84	155	31	4	21	91	79	111	1	1	.263	.349	.436	.785	102.3	105.5	.341	2.7
1999	161	671	588	88	177	38	0	32	120	74	109	1	1	.301	.379	.529	.908	129.7	131.9	.391	4.9
2000	141	551	469	61	109	23	1	24	84	75	91	3	5	.232	.338	.439	.777	96.2	99.6	.337	1.7
2001	142	549	456	70	108	20	0	21	61	88	101	2	5	.237	.359	.419	.778	106.7	105.9	.343	2.5
2002	141	562	465	68	115	17	0	27	93	90	101	3	1	.247	.368	.458	.826	121.2	121.2	.360	3.5
2003	138	453	392	42	95	18	1	14	55	58	87	0	0	.242	.340	.401	.741	99.7	97.8	.331	1.2
2004	102	175	152	19	37	3	0	5	28	22	31	0	0	.243	.337	.362	.699	88.4	85.5	.318	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2004	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	2.95	71.5	—	0.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

2,079

207th-most career G

8,271

240th-most career PA

7,064

294th-most career AB

1,006

347th-most career R

1,885

357th-most career H

338

353rd-most career 2B

294

171st-most career HR

RBI

1,182

170th-most career RBI

1,075

94th-most career BB

1,179

248th-most career SO

.2668

OBP

.3621

429th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4435

OPS

.8056

447th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

0.00

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
1991-07-19	MIL @ CWS Gameday	6	3	4	2	2	6	0	12
1999-07-31	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	6	0	11
1991-07-31	TEX @ CWS Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	5	0	10
1995-09-04	CWS @ TEX Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	8	1	10
1994-04-06	CWS @ TOR Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	5	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2004-06-25	LAA @ LAD Gameday	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0

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

6× Gold Glove2× 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.