MLB / Players

Vernon Wells

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 230 lb

BornDecember 8, 1978 · Shreveport, LA, USA

MLB debutAugust 30, 1999

Final gameSeptember 29, 2013

Seasons15 (1999–2013)

Toronto Blue Jays 1999–2010; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2011–2012; New York Yankees 2013

Percentile snapshot

2011 season — qualified batters

131

16.7

529

16.7

505

33.3

20.1

110

4.2

1.4

64.6

72.2

RBI

42.4

1.4

65.3

52.8

45.1

.218

OBP

.248

SLG

.412

34.7

OPS

.660

wRC+

79.8

8.3

OPS+

83.4

9.7

wOBA

.285

3.5

sWAR

-0.1

2.8

of 145 qualified 2011 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.6

46.8

OPS+

103.7

49.8

sWAR

27.1

95.9

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
1999	24	92	88	8	23	5	0	1	8	4	18	1	1	.261	.293	.352	.646	61.9	63.9	.289	-0.1
2000	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.3	-100.0	.000	0.0
2001	30	103	96	14	30	8	0	1	6	5	15	5	0	.313	.350	.427	.777	103.8	102.7	.342	0.4
2002	159	648	608	87	167	34	4	23	100	27	85	9	4	.275	.305	.457	.762	95.1	97.0	.328	2.0
2003	161	735	678	118	215	49	5	33	117	42	80	4	1	.317	.359	.550	.909	132.7	132.3	.388	5.7
2004	134	590	536	82	146	34	2	23	67	51	83	9	2	.272	.337	.472	.809	105.3	104.8	.352	2.6
2005	156	678	620	78	167	30	3	28	97	47	86	8	3	.269	.320	.463	.783	100.9	102.4	.337	2.7
2006	154	677	611	91	185	40	5	32	106	54	90	17	4	.303	.357	.542	.899	128.4	128.0	.385	5.0
2007	149	642	584	85	143	36	4	16	80	49	89	10	4	.245	.304	.402	.706	83.0	85.1	.312	1.1
2008	108	466	427	63	128	22	1	20	78	29	46	4	2	.300	.343	.496	.840	119.4	122.8	.362	2.8
2009	158	684	630	84	164	37	3	15	66	48	86	17	4	.260	.311	.400	.711	85.2	86.6	.313	1.3
2010	157	646	590	79	161	44	3	31	88	50	84	6	4	.273	.331	.515	.847	125.0	125.9	.366	4.4
2011	131	529	505	60	110	15	4	25	66	20	86	9	4	.218	.248	.412	.660	79.8	83.4	.285	-0.1
2012	77	262	243	36	56	9	0	11	29	16	35	3	1	.230	.279	.403	.682	88.5	89.9	.297	0.2
2013	130	458	424	45	99	16	0	11	50	30	73	7	3	.233	.282	.349	.631	70.9	73.8	.280	-0.8

Career totals

1,731

478th-most career G

7,212

414th-most career PA

6,642

373rd-most career AB

930

445th-most career R

1,794

413th-most career H

379

251st-most career 2B

270

220th-most career HR

RBI

958

350th-most career RBI

472

956

443rd-most career SO

109

.2701

OBP

.3186

SLG

.4593

398th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7779

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2006-05-30	BOS @ TOR Gameday	4	3	3	3	4	1	12
2008-09-28	TOR @ BAL Gameday	4	2	4	2	5	0	10
2008-08-23	BOS @ TOR Gameday	5	4	4	2	3	0	10
2006-04-07	TB @ TOR Gameday	5	4	4	2	2	0	10
2007-07-02	TOR @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	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.

Honors

3× Gold Glove1× Silver Slugger3× 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.