Steve Balboni

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 225 lb

BornJanuary 16, 1957 · Brockton, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1981

Final gameOctober 2, 1993

Seasons11 (1981–1993)

New York Yankees 1981–1983; Kansas City Royals 1984–1988; Seattle Mariners 1988; New York Yankees 1989–1990; Texas Rangers 1993

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

138

18.3

562

512

34.9

11.1

117

10.3

42.1

7.9

86.5

RBI

75.4

29.4

146

.229

OBP

.286

5.6

SLG

.451

61.9

OPS

.738

33.3

wRC+

93.8

25.4

OPS+

96.9

26.2

wOBA

.321

23.8

sWAR

0.4

8.7

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.3

38.2

OPS+

101.2

sWAR

2.5

72.2

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
1981	4	8	7	2	2	1	1	0	2	1	4	0	0	.286	.375	.714	1.089	212.0	211.9	.476	0.1
1982	33	114	107	8	20	2	1	2	4	6	34	0	0	.187	.228	.280	.508	36.1	40.6	.232	-0.8
1983	32	95	86	8	20	2	0	5	17	8	23	0	0	.233	.295	.430	.725	100.1	100.8	.323	0.1
1984	126	488	438	58	107	23	2	28	77	45	139	0	0	.244	.320	.498	.817	121.5	122.9	.358	1.9
1985	160	662	600	74	146	28	2	36	88	52	166	1	1	.243	.307	.477	.783	109.7	111.8	.341	1.7
1986	138	562	512	54	117	25	1	29	88	43	146	0	0	.229	.286	.451	.738	93.8	96.9	.321	0.4
1987	121	425	386	44	80	11	1	24	60	34	97	0	0	.207	.273	.427	.700	79.0	81.3	.303	-0.7
1988	118	440	413	46	97	17	1	23	66	24	87	0	1	.235	.277	.448	.725	93.6	97.0	.320	0.0
1989	110	334	300	33	71	12	2	17	59	25	67	0	0	.237	.296	.460	.756	104.6	111.3	.332	0.2
1990	116	307	266	24	51	6	0	17	34	35	91	0	0	.192	.291	.406	.697	91.2	92.4	.316	-0.4
1993	2	5	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.600	.600	.600	1.200	243.4	230.2	.551	0.1

Career totals

960

3,440

3,120

351

714

127

181

464th-most career HR

RBI

495

273

856

.2288

OBP

.2925

SLG

.4506

476th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7431

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
1984-06-23	KC @ LAA Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	9
1984-07-23	TOR @ KC Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	1	4	9
1985-06-07	KC @ LAA Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
1985-08-05	DET @ KC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1986-08-10	KC @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	5	8

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.