Spike Owen

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornApril 19, 1961 · Cleburne, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 25, 1983

Final gameOctober 2, 1995

Seasons13 (1983–1995)

Seattle Mariners 1983–1985; Boston Red Sox 1986; Seattle Mariners 1986; Boston Red Sox 1987–1988; Montreal Expos 1989–1992; New York Yankees 1993; California Angels 1994–1995

Percentile snapshot

1990 season — qualified batters

149

52.3

533

14.8

453

8.6

13.3

106

3.9

37.5

67.2

16.4

RBI

1.6

76.6

71.9

39.8

39.1

.234

OBP

.333

39.8

SLG

.342

10.9

OPS

.675

19.5

wRC+

89.9

22.7

OPS+

90.4

22.7

wOBA

.311

19.5

sWAR

1.9

38.3

of 129 qualified 1990 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

83.9

14.6

OPS+

83.5

13.9

sWAR

15.3

91.1

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
1983	80	340	306	36	60	11	3	2	21	24	44	10	6	.196	.257	.271	.528	42.1	43.8	.247	-0.8
1984	152	590	530	67	130	18	8	3	43	46	63	16	8	.245	.308	.326	.635	78.9	77.0	.295	1.3
1985	118	393	352	41	91	10	6	6	37	34	27	11	5	.259	.322	.372	.694	91.2	89.2	.316	1.5
1986	154	593	528	67	122	24	7	1	45	51	51	4	4	.231	.300	.309	.608	66.9	65.7	.282	0.4
1987	132	504	437	50	113	17	7	2	48	53	43	11	8	.259	.337	.343	.681	83.1	80.5	.310	1.3
1988	89	294	257	40	64	14	1	5	18	27	27	0	1	.249	.324	.370	.694	94.5	91.4	.321	1.1
1989	142	522	437	52	102	17	4	6	41	76	44	3	2	.233	.349	.332	.681	90.8	96.0	.309	1.9
1990	149	533	453	55	106	24	5	5	35	70	60	8	6	.234	.333	.342	.675	89.9	90.4	.311	1.9
1991	139	475	424	39	108	22	8	3	26	42	61	2	6	.255	.321	.366	.686	90.9	95.4	.309	1.8
1992	122	446	386	52	104	16	3	7	40	50	30	9	4	.269	.348	.381	.729	111.5	108.1	.339	2.8
1993	103	367	334	41	78	16	2	2	20	29	30	3	2	.234	.294	.311	.605	66.0	66.0	.281	0.2
1994	82	321	268	30	83	17	2	3	37	49	17	2	8	.310	.418	.422	.840	125.2	117.2	.387	2.1
1995	82	237	218	17	50	9	3	1	28	18	22	3	2	.229	.288	.312	.600	56.8	57.3	.275	-0.3

Career totals

1,544

5,615

4,930

587

1,211

215

RBI

439

569

519

.2456

OBP

.3235

SLG

.3412

OPS

.6647

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1985-06-26	TEX @ SEA Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	0	8
1986-08-21	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5	6	4	0	1	1	1	7
1983-06-28	CWS @ SEA Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	0	7
1985-09-23	SEA @ TEX Gameday	3	2	2	1	1	2	0	7
1984-05-01	MIN @ SEA Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	3	0	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.