Shawon Dunston

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 21, 1963 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 9, 1985

Final gameSeptember 29, 2002

Seasons18 (1985–2002)

Chicago Cubs 1985–1995; San Francisco Giants 1996; Chicago Cubs 1997; Pittsburgh Pirates 1997; Cleveland Indians 1998; San Francisco Giants 1998; New York Mets 1999; St. Louis Cardinals 1999–2000; San Francisco Giants 2001–2002

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified batters

132

511

490

18.2

25.2

147

15.4

74.8

RBI

23.8

76.2

88.1

23.8

.300

76.2

OBP

.312

SLG

.451

48.3

OPS

.763

34.3

wRC+

93.0

26.6

OPS+

95.3

31.5

wOBA

.335

30.8

sWAR

1.8

39.9

of 144 qualified 1997 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

84.4

15.3

OPS+

88.2

20.2

sWAR

14.7

90.8

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
1985	74	272	250	40	65	12	4	4	18	19	42	11	3	.260	.310	.388	.698	82.9	86.0	.317	0.7
1986	150	611	581	66	145	37	3	17	68	21	114	13	11	.250	.278	.411	.690	76.8	82.1	.308	1.1
1987	95	359	346	40	85	18	3	5	22	10	68	12	3	.246	.267	.358	.626	56.2	61.2	.279	-0.3
1988	155	599	575	69	143	23	6	9	56	16	108	30	9	.249	.271	.357	.627	68.8	76.0	.282	0.6
1989	138	512	471	52	131	20	6	9	60	30	86	19	11	.278	.320	.403	.724	93.0	99.9	.321	2.0
1990	146	573	545	73	143	22	8	17	66	15	87	25	5	.262	.283	.426	.709	83.4	86.8	.316	1.5
1991	142	534	492	59	128	22	7	12	50	23	64	21	6	.260	.292	.407	.699	85.0	90.8	.310	1.6
1992	18	76	73	8	23	3	1	0	2	3	13	2	3	.315	.342	.384	.726	105.8	102.9	.337	0.4
1993	7	10	10	3	4	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.400	.400	.600	1.000	170.6	165.8	.442	0.1
1994	88	356	331	38	92	19	0	11	35	16	48	3	8	.278	.313	.435	.748	91.4	93.9	.327	1.2
1995	127	503	477	58	141	30	6	14	69	10	75	10	5	.296	.317	.472	.788	103.4	106.2	.344	2.5
1996	82	307	287	27	86	12	2	5	25	13	40	8	0	.300	.331	.408	.739	97.4	96.5	.332	1.3
1997	132	511	490	71	147	22	5	14	57	8	75	32	8	.300	.312	.451	.763	93.0	95.3	.335	1.8
1998	98	221	207	36	46	13	3	6	20	6	28	9	4	.222	.255	.401	.656	62.6	67.7	.283	-0.3
1999	104	255	243	35	78	11	3	5	41	2	39	10	4	.321	.337	.453	.790	98.4	99.4	.347	0.7
2000	98	231	216	28	54	11	2	12	43	6	47	3	1	.250	.278	.486	.764	83.9	88.1	.325	0.0
2001	88	193	186	26	52	10	3	9	25	2	32	3	1	.280	.293	.511	.804	107.7	109.7	.341	0.7
2002	72	153	147	7	34	5	0	1	9	3	33	1	0	.231	.250	.286	.536	38.6	44.5	.243	-0.9

Career totals

1,814

400th-most career G

6,276

5,927

736

1,597

292

150

RBI

668

203

1,000

391st-most career SO

212

334th-most career SB

.2694

OBP

.2960

SLG

.4156

OPS

.7116

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	TB
1989-06-04	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	2	4	11
2000-06-22	SF @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	6	10
1986-04-19	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	1	2	9
1990-07-28	CHC @ WSH Gameday	5	2	3	0	3	0	5	9
1994-06-19	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	2	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

2× 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.