Todd Benzinger

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornFebruary 11, 1963 · Dayton, KY, USA

MLB debutJune 21, 1987

Final gameMay 14, 1995

Seasons9 (1987–1995)

Boston Red Sox 1987–1988; Cincinnati Reds 1989–1991; Kansas City Royals 1991; Los Angeles Dodgers 1992; San Francisco Giants 1993–1995

Percentile snapshot

1989 season — qualified batters

161

686

90.4

628

94.4

65.6

154

65.6

67.2

RBI

66.4

33.6

120

12.8

25.6

.245

20.8

OBP

.293

12.8

SLG

.381

39.2

OPS

.674

21.6

wRC+

84.0

OPS+

89.8

23.2

wOBA

.302

16.8

sWAR

-0.5

2.4

of 126 qualified 1989 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

84.4

15.4

OPS+

88.1

20.1

sWAR

-2.2

1.1

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
1987	73	253	223	36	62	11	1	8	43	22	41	5	4	.278	.344	.444	.788	104.0	105.9	.342	0.7
1988	120	436	405	47	103	28	1	13	70	22	80	2	3	.254	.293	.425	.718	92.0	95.9	.318	0.1
1989	161	686	628	79	154	28	3	17	76	44	120	3	7	.245	.293	.381	.674	84.0	89.8	.302	-0.5
1990	118	408	376	35	95	14	2	5	46	19	69	3	4	.253	.291	.340	.631	65.9	70.8	.286	-1.3
1991	129	451	416	36	109	18	5	3	51	27	66	4	6	.262	.310	.351	.661	80.9	83.0	.301	-0.5
1992	121	313	293	24	70	16	2	4	31	15	54	2	4	.239	.272	.348	.620	71.0	76.1	.283	-0.7
1993	86	194	177	25	51	7	2	6	26	13	35	0	0	.288	.332	.452	.784	110.4	111.8	.347	0.5
1994	107	352	328	32	87	13	2	9	31	17	84	2	1	.265	.304	.399	.703	82.5	86.1	.308	-0.4
1995	9	13	10	2	2	0	0	1	2	2	3	0	0	.200	.308	.500	.808	80.4	111.4	.307	0.0

Career totals

924

3,106

2,856

316

733

135

RBI

376

181

552

.2567

OBP

.3008

SLG

.3859

OPS

.6867

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
1993-09-18	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	4	1	9
1988-08-04	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9
1988-05-05	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	4	0	8
1993-08-30	SF @ MIA Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1994-06-28	SF @ LAD Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	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.