MLB / Players

Steve Yeager

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 24, 1948 · Huntington, WV, USA

MLB debutAugust 2, 1972

Final gameAugust 29, 1986

Seasons15 (1972–1986)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1972–1985; Seattle Mariners 1986

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified batters

135

20.5

515

7.1

452

7.1

103

5.5

13.4

7.1

54.3

RBI

33.9

33.1

18.1

44.1

.228

3.9

OBP

.298

SLG

.347

20.5

OPS

.646

wRC+

80.8

14.2

OPS+

84.4

17.3

wOBA

.300

13.4

sWAR

1.7

30.7

of 128 qualified 1975 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

80.3

10.4

OPS+

83.9

14.5

sWAR

14.8

90.8

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
1972	35	124	106	18	29	0	1	4	15	16	26	0	0	.274	.374	.406	.780	130.3	125.7	.363	1.2
1973	54	154	134	18	34	5	0	2	10	15	33	1	0	.254	.340	.336	.676	98.0	93.6	.321	0.9
1974	94	354	316	41	84	16	1	12	41	32	77	2	2	.266	.334	.437	.771	118.4	120.9	.354	2.8
1975	135	515	452	34	103	16	1	12	54	40	75	2	5	.228	.298	.347	.646	80.8	84.4	.300	1.7
1976	117	399	359	42	77	11	3	11	35	30	84	3	1	.214	.286	.354	.640	83.1	84.7	.300	1.6
1977	125	438	387	53	99	21	2	16	55	43	84	1	3	.256	.334	.444	.779	105.5	109.7	.342	2.8
1978	94	266	228	19	44	7	0	4	23	36	41	0	0	.193	.301	.276	.577	56.1	64.0	.265	0.3
1979	105	346	310	33	67	9	2	13	41	29	68	1	0	.216	.282	.384	.665	74.8	82.1	.295	1.0
1980	96	248	227	20	48	8	0	2	20	20	54	2	3	.211	.274	.273	.547	47.7	55.4	.251	0.1
1981	42	92	86	5	18	2	0	3	7	6	14	0	0	.209	.261	.337	.598	71.1	72.8	.281	0.4
1982	82	215	196	13	48	5	2	2	18	13	28	0	0	.245	.294	.321	.615	72.2	75.5	.284	0.7
1983	113	366	335	31	68	8	3	15	41	23	57	1	1	.203	.256	.379	.635	69.9	75.6	.286	0.9
1984	74	221	197	16	45	4	0	4	29	20	38	1	2	.228	.295	.310	.605	73.1	72.8	.286	0.6
1985	53	131	121	4	25	4	1	0	9	7	24	0	1	.207	.246	.256	.502	34.8	43.7	.229	-0.2
1986	50	145	130	10	27	2	0	2	12	12	23	0	0	.208	.273	.269	.542	47.9	48.0	.254	0.0

Career totals

1,269

4,014

3,584

357

816

118

102

RBI

410

342

726

.2277

OBP

.2977

SLG

.3549

OPS

.6526

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
1979-07-02	LAD @ SD Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	2	5	1	12
1975-07-27	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1979-08-07	HOU @ LAD Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1983-07-22	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1972-10-04	LAD @ ATL Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	2	3	2	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.

Honors

1× World Series MVP

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.