Steve Henderson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 18, 1952 · Houston, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 16, 1977

Final gameSeptember 28, 1988

Seasons12 (1977–1988)

New York Mets 1977–1980; Chicago Cubs 1981–1982; Seattle Mariners 1983–1984; Oakland Athletics 1985–1987; Houston Astros 1988

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

2.2

337

3.6

287

0.7

5.8

18.2

3.6

80.3

38.7

RBI

32.1

67.9

18.2

47.4

20.4

.293

70.8

OBP

.382

90.5

SLG

.411

60.6

OPS

.793

75.2

wRC+

123.7

70.8

OPS+

120.8

67.2

wOBA

.368

75.9

sWAR

1.6

40.1

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 328 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.2

72.1

OPS+

112.8

67.9

sWAR

14.9

90.9

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
1977	99	398	350	67	104	16	6	12	65	43	79	6	3	.297	.372	.480	.852	134.6	132.4	.382	2.5
1978	157	654	587	83	156	30	9	10	65	60	109	13	7	.266	.333	.399	.732	109.8	107.4	.340	2.2
1979	98	393	350	42	107	16	8	5	39	38	58	13	5	.306	.380	.440	.820	129.6	126.6	.374	2.2
1980	143	584	513	75	149	17	8	8	58	62	90	23	12	.290	.368	.402	.770	123.6	117.8	.360	2.9
1981	82	337	287	32	84	9	5	5	35	42	61	5	7	.293	.382	.411	.793	123.7	120.8	.368	1.6
1982	92	283	257	23	60	12	4	2	29	22	64	6	5	.233	.293	.335	.627	71.2	73.4	.291	-0.4
1983	121	484	436	50	128	32	3	10	54	44	82	10	14	.294	.356	.450	.806	119.8	117.6	.361	2.2
1984	109	364	325	42	85	12	3	10	35	38	62	2	4	.262	.341	.409	.750	109.0	107.9	.339	0.8
1985	85	213	193	25	58	8	3	3	31	18	34	0	0	.301	.358	.420	.778	121.7	119.2	.351	1.0
1986	11	27	26	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	5	0	0	.077	.074	.115	.189	-61.3	-47.7	.081	-0.5
1987	46	126	114	14	33	7	0	3	9	12	19	0	0	.289	.357	.430	.787	115.2	114.6	.348	0.4
1988	42	53	46	4	10	2	0	0	5	7	14	1	1	.217	.321	.261	.582	75.4	72.6	.281	0.0

Career totals

1,085

3,916

3,484

459

976

162

RBI

428

386

677

.2801

OBP

.3521

SLG

.4133

OPS

.7654

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
1981-05-25	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1982-08-12	CHC @ NYM Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
1979-07-13	SF @ NYM Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1980-07-15	NYM @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1983-09-04	NYY @ SEA Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	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.