MLB / Players

Terry Steinbach

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornMarch 2, 1962 · New Ulm, MN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1986

Final gameOctober 1, 1999

Seasons14 (1986–1999)

Oakland Athletics 1986–1996; Minnesota Twins 1997–1999

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified batters

145

33.3

571

22.4

514

24.5

140

27.9

25.9

10.9

82.3

RBI

100

66.7

30.6

115

25.2

76.2

.272

31.3

OBP

.342

35.4

SLG

.529

75.5

OPS

.871

66.7

wRC+

115.0

59.9

OPS+

117.5

62.6

wOBA

.373

62.6

sWAR

3.9

78.2

of 148 qualified 1996 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.3

42.3

OPS+

101.4

44.6

sWAR

30.2

96.6

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
1986	6	16	15	3	5	0	0	2	4	1	0	0	0	.333	.375	.733	1.108	200.8	202.6	.471	0.3
1987	122	438	391	66	111	16	3	16	56	32	66	1	2	.284	.349	.463	.812	119.9	120.2	.355	3.3
1988	104	398	351	42	93	19	1	9	51	33	47	3	0	.265	.334	.402	.736	110.9	110.4	.334	2.5
1989	130	491	454	37	124	13	1	7	42	30	66	1	2	.273	.319	.352	.671	94.2	94.4	.311	2.1
1990	114	410	379	32	95	15	2	9	57	19	66	0	1	.251	.291	.372	.663	87.1	89.4	.302	1.2
1991	129	494	456	50	125	31	1	6	67	22	70	2	2	.274	.312	.386	.698	94.2	98.0	.312	2.3
1992	128	487	438	48	122	20	1	12	53	45	58	2	3	.279	.345	.411	.756	117.5	116.7	.347	3.7
1993	104	418	389	47	111	19	1	10	43	25	65	3	3	.285	.333	.416	.749	106.1	105.6	.340	2.3
1994	103	402	369	51	105	21	2	11	57	26	62	2	1	.285	.327	.442	.768	99.3	102.8	.334	1.9
1995	114	439	406	43	113	26	1	15	65	25	74	1	3	.278	.322	.458	.780	100.8	104.6	.340	2.4
1996	145	571	514	79	140	25	1	35	100	49	115	0	1	.272	.342	.529	.871	115.0	117.5	.373	3.9
1997	122	487	447	60	111	27	1	12	54	35	106	6	1	.248	.302	.394	.696	77.0	79.2	.308	1.2
1998	124	465	422	45	102	25	2	14	54	38	89	0	1	.242	.310	.410	.720	84.9	84.6	.319	1.6
1999	101	380	338	35	96	16	4	4	42	38	54	2	2	.284	.358	.391	.748	91.3	88.9	.339	1.6

Career totals

1,546

5,896

5,369

638

1,453

273

162

RBI

745

418

938

461st-most career SO

.2706

OBP

.3263

SLG

.4198

OPS

.7461

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1987-06-13	ATH @ TEX Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	1	9
1994-04-16	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1996-07-22	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1992-07-27	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	4	0	8
1996-07-02	ATH @ SEA Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	5	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.

Honors

1× All-Star Game MVP3× 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.