Vance Law

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 1, 1956 · Boise, ID, USA

MLB debutJune 1, 1980

Final gameOctober 6, 1991

Seasons11 (1980–1991)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1980–1981; Chicago White Sox 1982–1984; Montreal Expos 1985–1987; Chicago Cubs 1988–1989; Oakland Athletics 1991

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified batters

151

57.4

621

57.4

556

55.8

48.1

163

73.6

61.2

27.1

41.9

RBI

69.8

45.7

3.9

.293

78.3

OBP

.358

72.9

SLG

.412

53.5

OPS

.770

62.8

wRC+

122.1

67.4

OPS+

117.3

wOBA

.356

66.7

sWAR

4.0

of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.3

34.4

OPS+

94.4

30.4

sWAR

14.8

90.8

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
1980	25	78	74	11	17	2	2	0	3	3	7	2	0	.230	.260	.311	.571	54.4	58.0	.266	-0.1
1981	30	71	67	1	9	0	1	0	3	2	15	1	1	.134	.157	.164	.321	-26.6	-9.9	.154	-0.8
1982	114	398	359	40	101	20	1	5	54	26	46	4	2	.281	.327	.384	.712	95.7	96.0	.321	1.7
1983	145	471	408	55	99	21	5	4	42	51	56	3	1	.243	.325	.348	.673	86.7	84.1	.311	1.1
1984	151	533	481	60	121	18	2	17	59	41	75	4	1	.252	.309	.403	.713	92.7	93.4	.320	1.7
1985	147	621	519	75	138	30	6	10	52	86	96	6	5	.266	.369	.405	.773	129.0	122.2	.363	4.3
1986	112	402	360	37	81	17	2	5	44	37	66	3	5	.225	.298	.325	.623	74.2	72.8	.293	0.2
1987	133	492	436	52	119	27	1	12	56	51	62	8	5	.273	.347	.422	.769	101.8	100.7	.345	1.8
1988	151	621	556	73	163	29	2	11	78	55	79	1	4	.293	.358	.412	.770	122.1	117.3	.356	4.0
1989	130	454	408	38	96	22	3	7	42	38	73	2	2	.235	.296	.355	.651	80.7	80.3	.303	0.7
1991	74	157	134	11	28	7	1	0	9	18	27	0	0	.209	.303	.276	.579	72.3	66.6	.280	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	3	3	1	2	0	4.0	2.25	1.250	0.00	4.25	114.7	164.5	0.2
1987	3	5	2	0	2	3.3	5.40	1.500	5.40	1.67	39.8	77.5	1.8
1991	1	1	0	1	0	0.7	0.00	3.000	0.00	7.41	191.0	—	0.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,212

4,298

3,802

453

972

193

RBI

442

408

602

.2557

OBP

.3264

SLG

.3761

OPS

.7025

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.375

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

2.25

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	TB
1988-07-29	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1989-07-22	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1986-04-27	WSH @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	2	8
1984-06-10	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1985-07-12	WSH @ CIN Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1987-09-01	WSH @ SF Gameday	1.0	2	1	1	0	2
1986-06-21	PIT @ WSH Gameday	2.0	3	1	1	0	0
1987-06-27	STL @ WSH Gameday	1.1	3	1	1	0	0
1986-05-28	SD @ WSH Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
1986-07-25	WSH @ CIN Gameday	1.0	0	1	0	2	0

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.