Ruben Sierra

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 6, 1965 · Rio Piedras, P.R.

MLB debutJune 1, 1986

Final gameJuly 9, 2006

Seasons20 (1986–2006)

Texas Rangers 1986–1991; Oakland Athletics 1992; Texas Rangers 1992; Oakland Athletics 1993–1994; New York Yankees 1995; Oakland Athletics 1995; Detroit Tigers 1996; New York Yankees 1996; Cincinnati Reds 1997; Toronto Blue Jays 1997; Chicago White Sox 1998; Texas Rangers 2000–2001; Seattle Mariners 2002; New York Yankees 2003; Texas Rangers 2003; New York Yankees 2004–2005; Minnesota Twins 2006

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified batters

142

24.5

587

27.9

518

31.3

8.8

128

10.2

28.6

32.7

25.2

RBI

32.7

53.7

63.3

32.7

46.9

.247

6.8

OBP

.320

12.9

SLG

.375

12.9

OPS

.695

13.6

wRC+

71.9

7.5

OPS+

76.0

10.9

wOBA

.304

9.5

sWAR

-1.2

of 148 qualified 1996 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.1

41.8

OPS+

105.0

52.1

sWAR

17.5

92.4

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
1986	113	411	382	50	101	13	10	16	55	22	65	7	8	.264	.302	.476	.779	102.3	106.5	.336	1.0
1987	158	696	643	97	169	35	4	30	109	39	114	16	11	.263	.302	.470	.771	96.6	100.6	.329	1.3
1988	156	668	615	77	156	32	2	23	91	44	91	18	4	.254	.301	.424	.725	93.7	99.1	.319	1.0
1989	162	689	634	101	194	35	14	29	119	43	82	8	2	.306	.347	.543	.889	145.4	146.2	.394	5.4
1990	159	666	608	70	170	37	2	16	96	49	86	9	0	.280	.330	.426	.756	105.5	110.5	.336	1.9
1991	161	726	661	110	203	44	5	25	116	56	91	16	4	.307	.357	.502	.859	135.3	137.2	.379	4.8
1992	151	656	601	83	167	34	7	17	87	45	68	14	4	.278	.323	.443	.766	110.3	116.5	.339	2.2
1993	158	692	630	77	147	23	5	22	101	52	97	25	5	.233	.288	.390	.678	77.2	85.4	.295	-0.5
1994	110	460	426	71	114	21	1	23	92	23	64	8	5	.268	.298	.484	.781	97.5	104.1	.331	0.8
1995	126	533	479	73	126	32	0	19	86	46	76	5	4	.263	.323	.449	.772	98.4	101.6	.338	0.8
1996	142	587	518	61	128	26	2	12	72	60	83	4	4	.247	.320	.375	.695	71.9	76.0	.304	-1.2
1997	39	148	138	10	32	5	3	3	12	9	34	0	0	.232	.277	.377	.654	62.0	69.0	.285	-0.4
1998	27	77	74	7	16	4	1	4	11	3	11	2	0	.216	.247	.459	.706	76.4	80.6	.301	-0.1
2000	20	64	60	5	14	0	0	1	7	4	9	1	0	.233	.281	.283	.565	40.7	42.0	.260	-0.4
2001	94	369	344	55	100	22	1	23	67	19	52	2	0	.291	.322	.561	.884	120.2	121.7	.372	1.5
2002	122	452	419	47	113	23	0	13	60	31	66	4	0	.270	.319	.418	.736	96.9	99.4	.319	0.5
2003	106	336	307	33	83	17	1	9	43	27	47	2	1	.270	.327	.420	.748	92.4	93.9	.326	0.1
2004	107	338	307	40	75	12	1	17	65	25	55	1	0	.244	.296	.456	.752	88.1	93.8	.318	-0.1
2005	61	181	170	14	39	12	0	4	29	9	41	0	0	.229	.265	.371	.636	64.1	68.7	.275	-0.6
2006	14	33	28	3	5	1	0	0	4	4	7	0	0	.179	.273	.214	.487	33.3	30.4	.235	-0.2

Career totals

2,186

154th-most career G

8,782

182nd-most career PA

8,044

150th-most career AB

1,084

278th-most career R

2,152

210th-most career H

428

147th-most career 2B

306

155th-most career HR

RBI

1,322

103rd-most career RBI

610

1,239

202nd-most career SO

142

.2675

OBP

.3153

SLG

.4495

488th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7648

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
2001-08-21	NYY @ TEX Gameday	5	2	5	1	2	3	0	12
1989-06-08	CWS @ TEX Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	5	1	11
1987-08-25	TEX @ KC Gameday	5	4	4	0	2	2	0	10
2001-06-13	TEX @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1994-07-09	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	3	0	9

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× Silver Slugger4× 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.