MLB / Players

Steve Garvey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 192 lb

BornDecember 22, 1948 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1969

Final gameMay 23, 1987

Seasons19 (1969–1987)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1969–1982; San Diego Padres 1983–1987

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

155

69.8

584

37.3

557

57.1

15.1

142

45.2

25.4

66.7

RBI

65.1

3.2

61.1

5.6

72.2

.255

26.2

OBP

.284

4.8

SLG

.408

33.3

OPS

.692

wRC+

86.4

16.7

OPS+

90.7

20.6

wOBA

.309

15.1

sWAR

-0.4

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.2

OPS+

117.8

76.1

sWAR

30.9

96.7

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
1969	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	93.7	94.5	.311	0.0
1970	34	100	93	8	25	5	0	1	6	6	17	1	1	.269	.310	.355	.665	83.3	82.7	.307	0.2
1971	81	249	225	27	51	12	1	7	26	21	33	1	2	.227	.290	.382	.673	93.1	95.4	.308	0.8
1972	96	317	294	36	79	14	2	9	30	19	36	4	2	.269	.312	.422	.734	108.5	110.8	.332	1.5
1973	114	366	349	37	106	17	3	8	50	11	42	0	2	.304	.328	.438	.766	114.1	116.9	.345	1.1
1974	156	685	642	95	200	32	3	21	111	31	66	5	4	.312	.342	.469	.811	130.1	132.0	.371	3.4
1975	160	704	659	85	210	38	6	18	95	33	66	11	2	.319	.351	.476	.827	133.7	135.1	.378	3.8
1976	162	696	631	85	200	37	4	13	80	50	69	19	8	.317	.363	.450	.813	132.8	134.6	.371	3.6
1977	162	696	646	91	192	25	3	33	115	38	90	9	6	.297	.335	.498	.834	120.7	123.3	.365	2.7
1978	162	689	639	89	202	36	9	21	113	40	70	10	5	.316	.353	.499	.852	137.7	138.3	.382	4.0
1979	162	697	648	92	204	32	1	28	110	37	59	3	6	.315	.351	.497	.848	127.8	131.5	.373	3.2
1980	163	704	658	78	200	27	1	26	106	36	67	6	11	.304	.341	.467	.808	126.9	126.4	.365	3.2
1981	110	461	431	63	122	23	1	10	64	25	49	3	5	.283	.322	.411	.732	108.9	111.6	.335	1.0
1982	162	660	625	66	176	35	1	16	86	20	86	5	3	.282	.301	.418	.718	96.8	102.9	.320	0.5
1983	100	425	388	76	114	22	0	14	59	29	39	4	1	.294	.344	.459	.802	119.7	124.9	.356	1.5
1984	161	653	617	72	175	27	2	8	86	24	64	1	2	.284	.307	.373	.680	88.6	91.5	.311	-0.2
1985	162	699	654	80	184	34	6	17	81	35	67	0	0	.281	.318	.430	.748	107.3	109.5	.336	1.5
1986	155	584	557	58	142	22	0	21	81	23	72	1	2	.255	.284	.408	.692	86.4	90.7	.309	-0.4
1987	27	78	76	5	16	2	0	1	9	1	10	0	0	.211	.231	.276	.507	31.3	36.0	.231	-0.6

Career totals

2,332

105th-most career G

9,466

124th-most career PA

8,835

85th-most career AB

1,143

231st-most career R

2,599

84th-most career H

440

127th-most career 2B

272

215th-most career HR

RBI

1,308

111th-most career RBI

479

1,003

390th-most career SO

.2942

323rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3294

SLG

.4461

OPS

.7755

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
1977-08-28	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	5	5	3	0	2	5	0	14
1975-09-24	LAD @ SD Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	2	6	0	11
1978-10-04	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
1974-10-09	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1977-06-29	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	2	1	10

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

4× Gold Glove2× All-Star Game MVP2× NLCS MVP1× Most Valuable Player10× 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.