MLB / Players

Travis Hafner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 240 lb

BornJune 3, 1977 · Jamestown, ND, USA

MLB debutAugust 6, 2002

Final gameSeptember 29, 2013

Seasons12 (2002–2013)

Texas Rangers 2002; Cleveland Indians 2003–2012; New York Yankees 2013

Percentile snapshot

2007 season — qualified batters

152

65.2

659

545

51.6

44.1

145

40.4

19.3

35.4

68.3

RBI

100

80.1

102

96.3

115

26.1

69.6

.266

24.2

OBP

.385

78.9

SLG

.451

49.1

OPS

.837

63.4

wRC+

118.7

63.4

OPS+

119.7

66.5

wOBA

.368

62.7

sWAR

2.1

of 162 qualified 2007 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

132.3

92.2

OPS+

132.9

92.3

sWAR

22.1

94.4

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
2002	23	70	62	6	15	4	1	1	6	8	15	0	1	.242	.329	.387	.716	82.9	84.0	.316	-0.1
2003	91	324	291	35	74	19	3	14	40	22	81	2	1	.254	.327	.485	.812	112.2	112.8	.350	0.8
2004	140	573	482	96	150	41	3	28	109	68	111	3	2	.311	.410	.583	.993	158.5	160.5	.422	4.5
2005	137	578	486	94	148	42	0	33	108	79	123	0	0	.305	.408	.595	1.003	165.8	166.7	.425	5.2
2006	129	563	454	100	140	31	1	42	117	100	111	0	0	.308	.439	.659	1.097	176.7	180.3	.457	5.8
2007	152	659	545	80	145	25	2	24	100	102	115	1	1	.266	.385	.451	.837	118.7	119.7	.368	2.1
2008	57	233	198	21	39	10	0	5	24	27	55	1	1	.197	.305	.323	.628	64.2	68.4	.280	-0.9
2009	94	383	338	46	92	19	0	16	49	41	67	0	0	.272	.355	.470	.826	117.1	118.6	.357	1.1
2010	118	462	396	46	110	29	0	13	50	51	94	2	1	.278	.374	.449	.824	127.6	128.7	.363	1.8
2011	94	368	325	41	91	16	0	13	57	36	78	0	0	.280	.361	.449	.811	125.3	124.9	.356	1.4
2012	66	263	219	23	50	6	2	12	34	32	47	0	0	.228	.346	.438	.784	119.3	117.7	.344	0.8
2013	82	299	262	31	53	8	1	12	37	32	79	2	0	.202	.301	.378	.679	87.5	86.9	.304	-0.3

Career totals

1,183

4,775

4,058

619

1,107

250

213

345th-most career HR

RBI

731

598

976

415th-most career SO

.2728

OBP

.3759

225th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4983

134th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8742

118th-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
2004-07-20	CLE @ LAA Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	3	6	0	13
2004-08-04	CLE @ TOR Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	6	0	11
2005-07-04	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	5	0	10
2003-08-14	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
2006-04-07	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	2	2	1	10

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.