MLB / Players

Terry Puhl

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornJuly 8, 1956 · Melville, SK, CAN

MLB debutJuly 12, 1977

Final gameMay 29, 1991

Seasons15 (1977–1991)

Houston Astros 1977–1990; Kansas City Royals 1991

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

132

519

5.9

449

0.8

30.3

135

26.1

14.3

32.8

RBI

25.2

67.2

90.8

66.4

21.8

.301

80.7

OBP

.380

86.6

SLG

.434

50.4

OPS

.814

67.2

wRC+

135.5

79.8

OPS+

136.3

81.5

wOBA

.371

71.4

sWAR

3.2

61.3

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.8

69.4

OPS+

111.9

66.1

sWAR

22.5

94.5

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
1977	60	265	229	40	69	13	5	0	10	30	31	10	1	.301	.385	.402	.786	127.5	120.7	.367	1.5
1978	149	647	585	87	169	25	6	3	35	48	46	32	14	.289	.343	.368	.711	107.9	106.7	.331	2.8
1979	157	672	600	87	172	22	4	8	49	58	46	30	22	.287	.352	.377	.729	107.3	105.6	.337	2.8
1980	141	608	535	75	151	24	5	13	55	60	52	27	11	.282	.357	.419	.776	128.5	124.7	.360	3.6
1981	96	394	350	43	88	19	4	3	28	31	49	22	4	.251	.315	.354	.670	92.7	94.6	.312	0.6
1982	145	567	507	64	133	17	9	8	50	51	49	17	9	.262	.331	.379	.710	108.5	105.4	.332	1.9
1983	137	512	465	66	136	25	7	8	44	36	48	24	11	.292	.343	.428	.771	120.7	119.5	.354	2.4
1984	132	519	449	66	135	19	7	9	55	59	45	13	8	.301	.380	.434	.814	135.5	136.3	.371	3.2
1985	57	220	194	34	55	14	3	2	23	18	23	6	2	.284	.343	.418	.760	113.1	115.7	.342	0.8
1986	81	193	172	17	42	10	0	3	14	15	24	3	2	.244	.302	.355	.656	83.2	83.9	.302	0.0
1987	90	134	122	9	28	5	0	2	15	11	16	1	1	.230	.293	.320	.613	68.4	66.2	.285	-0.3
1988	113	272	234	42	71	7	2	3	19	35	30	22	4	.303	.395	.389	.784	138.0	130.8	.368	1.7
1989	121	406	354	41	96	25	4	0	27	45	39	9	8	.271	.353	.364	.718	114.4	109.5	.338	1.5
1990	37	49	41	5	12	1	0	0	8	5	7	1	2	.293	.375	.317	.692	103.5	95.4	.333	0.1
1991	15	21	18	0	4	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	0	.222	.333	.222	.556	51.6	57.5	.258	-0.1

Career totals

1,531

5,479

4,855

676

1,361

226

RBI

435

505

507

217

320th-most career SB

.2803

OBP

.3489

SLG

.3883

OPS

.7372

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1980-05-09	HOU @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9
1982-05-22	NYM @ HOU Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	5	0	8
1979-06-01	WSH @ HOU Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	0	8
1982-06-16	ATL @ HOU Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	1	8
1987-09-28	LAD @ HOU Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	4	1	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× 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.