Steve Braun

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornMay 8, 1948 · Trenton, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 6, 1971

Final gameOctober 6, 1985

Seasons15 (1971–1985)

Minnesota Twins 1971–1976; Seattle Mariners 1977; Kansas City Royals 1978; Seattle Mariners 1978; Kansas City Royals 1979–1980; Toronto Blue Jays 1980; St. Louis Cardinals 1981–1985

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

139

17.8

544

18.5

451

4.1

2.1

106

0.7

2.1

14.4

RBI

1.4

89.7

68.5

43.8

.235

4.1

OBP

.351

58.2

SLG

.315

1.4

OPS

.666

10.3

wRC+

90.5

19.9

OPS+

83.4

11.6

wOBA

.317

18.5

sWAR

0.4

5.5

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.8

OPS+

108.9

60.2

sWAR

18.7

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
1971	128	402	343	51	87	12	2	5	35	48	50	8	3	.254	.350	.344	.694	100.4	96.7	.329	1.6
1972	121	455	402	40	116	21	0	2	50	45	38	4	5	.289	.360	.356	.716	117.0	109.8	.343	2.7
1973	115	440	361	46	102	28	5	6	42	74	48	4	3	.283	.408	.438	.845	140.7	135.4	.391	3.8
1974	129	516	453	53	127	12	1	8	40	56	51	4	4	.280	.361	.364	.726	111.5	107.1	.343	1.9
1975	136	526	453	70	137	18	3	11	45	66	55	0	2	.302	.389	.428	.818	133.7	130.0	.379	3.2
1976	122	491	417	73	120	12	3	3	61	67	43	12	4	.288	.384	.353	.737	123.7	115.5	.357	2.0
1977	139	544	451	51	106	19	1	5	31	80	59	8	3	.235	.351	.315	.666	90.5	83.4	.317	0.4
1978	96	251	211	27	53	14	1	3	29	37	21	4	2	.251	.360	.370	.730	109.8	104.9	.342	0.8
1979	58	139	116	15	31	2	0	4	10	22	11	0	0	.267	.384	.388	.772	113.2	108.5	.356	0.5
1980	51	88	78	4	16	2	0	1	10	10	7	0	0	.205	.295	.269	.565	54.5	54.3	.268	-0.4
1981	44	62	46	9	9	2	1	0	2	15	7	1	0	.196	.393	.283	.676	114.6	93.0	.352	0.2
1982	58	73	62	6	17	4	0	0	4	11	10	0	0	.274	.384	.339	.722	115.8	103.9	.352	0.4
1983	78	114	92	8	25	2	1	3	7	21	7	0	1	.272	.404	.413	.817	139.0	127.9	.388	0.8
1984	86	115	98	6	27	3	1	0	16	17	17	0	0	.276	.383	.327	.709	116.0	104.5	.348	0.5
1985	64	79	67	7	16	4	0	1	6	10	9	0	0	.239	.342	.343	.685	97.6	94.6	.322	0.2

Career totals

1,425

4,295

3,650

466

989

155

RBI

388

579

433

.2710

OBP

.3711

272nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3666

OPS

.7377

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	BB	TB
1973-05-28	BAL @ MIN Gameday	3	3	3	1	0	2	2	1	10
1973-05-17	CWS @ MIN Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	2	1	7
1978-05-05	TOR @ SEA Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	4	1	6
1974-05-03	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	6
1979-05-09	KC @ TEX Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	1	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.