MLB / Players

Steve Sax

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornJanuary 29, 1960 · Sacramento, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 18, 1981

Final gameMay 8, 1994

Seasons14 (1981–1994)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1981–1988; New York Yankees 1989–1991; Chicago White Sox 1992–1993; Oakland Athletics 1994

Percentile snapshot

1992 season — qualified batters

143

34.7

630

567

49.6

134

35.5

46.3

55.4

12.4

RBI

16.5

28.9

88.4

15.7

.236

6.6

OBP

.290

6.6

SLG

.317

4.1

OPS

.607

3.3

wRC+

69.6

2.5

OPS+

72.2

3.3

wOBA

.282

2.5

sWAR

0.1

4.1

of 122 qualified 1992 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.9

35.7

OPS+

95.7

sWAR

25.5

95.5

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	31	127	119	15	33	2	0	2	9	7	14	5	7	.277	.317	.345	.662	91.6	92.4	.310	0.3
1982	150	699	638	88	180	23	7	4	47	49	53	49	19	.282	.335	.359	.694	101.9	98.1	.327	2.8
1983	155	692	623	94	175	18	5	5	41	58	73	56	30	.281	.342	.350	.692	97.8	94.4	.326	2.4
1984	145	622	569	70	138	24	4	1	35	47	53	34	19	.243	.300	.304	.604	73.1	72.7	.286	0.3
1985	136	551	488	62	136	8	4	1	42	54	43	27	11	.279	.352	.318	.670	92.7	92.7	.312	1.6
1986	157	704	633	91	210	43	4	6	56	59	58	40	17	.332	.390	.441	.830	140.5	136.9	.381	6.1
1987	157	663	610	84	171	22	7	6	46	44	61	37	11	.280	.331	.369	.700	89.6	88.9	.318	1.6
1988	160	687	632	70	175	19	4	5	57	45	51	42	12	.277	.325	.343	.668	97.4	96.8	.311	2.4
1989	158	717	651	88	205	26	3	5	63	52	44	43	17	.315	.364	.387	.751	115.8	113.0	.348	4.1
1990	155	680	615	70	160	24	2	4	42	49	46	43	9	.260	.316	.325	.641	79.0	79.4	.299	0.9
1991	158	707	652	85	198	38	2	10	56	41	38	31	11	.304	.345	.414	.759	109.4	108.9	.344	3.5
1992	143	630	567	74	134	26	4	4	47	43	42	30	12	.236	.290	.317	.607	69.6	72.2	.282	0.1
1993	57	129	119	20	28	5	0	1	8	8	6	7	3	.235	.283	.303	.586	61.1	60.5	.274	-0.6
1994	7	24	24	2	6	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	.250	.250	.333	.583	51.1	54.1	.257	-0.1

Career totals

1,769

441st-most career G

7,632

348th-most career PA

6,940

320th-most career AB

913

463rd-most career R

1,949

321st-most career H

278

RBI

550

556

584

444

55th-most career SB

.2808

OBP

.3347

SLG

.3578

OPS

.6925

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
1988-05-26	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	4	10
1989-06-27	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	1	1	9
1991-09-04	NYY @ TEX Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	2	9
1983-04-16	SD @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	2	7
1988-07-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	2	7

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

1× Rookie of the Year1× Silver Slugger5× 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.