MLB / Players

Tony Gwynn

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornMay 9, 1960 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 19, 1982

Final gameOctober 7, 2001

Seasons20 (1982–2001)

San Diego Padres 1982–2001

Percentile snapshot

1998 season — qualified batters

127

2.5

505

461

13.9

148

64.6

RBI

36.7

15.2

100

15.2

86.7

.321

89.2

OBP

.364

60.1

SLG

.501

68.4

OPS

.865

70.3

wRC+

129.3

76.6

OPS+

132.3

77.8

wOBA

.375

65.8

sWAR

2.9

53.2

of 159 qualified 1998 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

132.4

92.3

OPS+

132.5

92.1

sWAR

62.4

99.5

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
1982	54	209	190	33	55	12	2	1	17	14	16	8	3	.289	.337	.389	.726	110.6	107.5	.338	0.8
1983	86	334	304	34	94	12	2	1	37	23	21	7	4	.309	.355	.372	.726	105.0	105.6	.334	0.9
1984	158	675	606	88	213	21	10	5	71	59	23	33	18	.351	.410	.444	.853	144.6	141.6	.392	5.0
1985	154	671	622	90	197	29	5	6	46	45	33	14	11	.317	.364	.408	.773	121.5	118.2	.357	3.2
1986	160	701	642	107	211	33	7	14	59	52	35	37	9	.329	.381	.467	.848	136.8	135.3	.383	4.6
1987	157	680	589	119	218	36	13	7	54	82	35	56	12	.370	.447	.511	.958	156.9	157.5	.420	6.1
1988	133	578	521	64	163	22	5	7	70	51	40	26	11	.313	.373	.415	.787	129.3	128.6	.359	3.4
1989	158	679	604	82	203	27	7	4	62	56	30	40	16	.336	.389	.424	.813	133.9	133.5	.369	4.7
1990	141	629	573	79	177	29	10	4	72	44	23	17	8	.309	.357	.415	.772	107.4	112.1	.342	1.8
1991	134	569	530	69	168	27	11	4	62	34	19	8	8	.317	.355	.432	.787	117.6	118.6	.354	2.4
1992	128	569	520	77	165	27	3	6	41	46	16	3	6	.317	.371	.415	.786	121.7	121.0	.357	2.6
1993	122	534	489	70	175	41	3	7	59	36	19	14	1	.358	.398	.497	.895	136.2	137.2	.393	3.5
1994	110	475	419	79	165	35	1	12	64	48	19	5	0	.394	.454	.568	1.022	167.8	168.2	.441	5.0
1995	135	577	535	82	197	33	1	9	90	35	15	17	5	.368	.404	.484	.888	136.9	137.7	.391	3.9
1996	116	498	451	67	159	27	2	3	50	39	17	11	4	.353	.400	.441	.842	125.7	127.9	.372	2.6
1997	149	651	592	97	220	49	2	17	119	43	28	12	5	.372	.409	.547	.957	153.3	156.2	.414	5.7
1998	127	505	461	65	148	35	0	16	69	35	18	3	1	.321	.364	.501	.865	129.3	132.3	.375	2.9
1999	111	446	411	59	139	27	0	10	62	29	14	7	2	.338	.381	.477	.858	122.2	123.5	.376	2.2
2000	36	140	127	17	41	12	0	1	17	9	4	0	1	.323	.364	.441	.805	106.1	109.4	.350	0.4
2001	71	112	102	5	33	9	1	1	17	10	9	1	0	.324	.384	.461	.845	128.2	126.1	.371	0.7

Career totals

2,440

75th-most career G

10,232

73rd-most career PA

9,288

59th-most career AB

1,383

101st-most career R

3,141

22nd-most career H

543

37th-most career 2B

249th-most career 3B

135

RBI

1,138

203rd-most career RBI

790

283rd-most career BB

434

319

152nd-most career SB

.3382

25th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3882

126th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4585

407th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8467

211th-highest career OPS

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
1997-07-11	SD @ COL Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	3	1	10
1994-04-23	PHI @ SD Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	1	3	0	9
1993-06-10	LAD @ SD Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	1	4	0	9
1986-04-27	SF @ SD Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1993-08-04	SF @ SD Gameday	7	2	6	2	0	0	0	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

Hall of Fame, 2007 (BBWAA)

7× Silver Slugger5× Gold Glove15× 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.