Steve Jeltz
Philadelphia Phillies 1983–1989; Kansas City Royals 1990
Percentile snapshot
1986 season — qualified batters
of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .375 | .597 | 62.2 | 64.2 | .275 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 28 | 77 | 68 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 1 | .206 | .276 | .279 | .556 | 52.3 | 56.2 | .261 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 89 | 228 | 196 | 17 | 37 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 26 | 55 | 1 | 1 | .189 | .283 | .219 | .502 | 38.5 | 41.0 | .243 | -0.5 |
| 1986 | 145 | 510 | 439 | 44 | 96 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 36 | 65 | 97 | 6 | 3 | .219 | .320 | .262 | .581 | 61.2 | 60.4 | .279 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 114 | 337 | 293 | 37 | 68 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 39 | 54 | 1 | 2 | .232 | .324 | .304 | .628 | 67.2 | 65.6 | .294 | 0.3 |
| 1988 | 148 | 450 | 379 | 39 | 71 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 59 | 58 | 3 | 0 | .187 | .295 | .237 | .533 | 53.7 | 53.4 | .259 | -0.2 |
| 1989 | 116 | 315 | 263 | 28 | 64 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 45 | 44 | 4 | 2 | .243 | .356 | .338 | .694 | 103.8 | 99.2 | .328 | 1.6 |
| 1990 | 74 | 114 | 103 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .155 | .200 | .194 | .394 | 5.7 | 12.0 | .189 | -0.8 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-06-08 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1989-06-25 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1989-08-12 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1986-04-12 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1988-06-12 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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.