Vince Coleman

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 22, 1961 · Jacksonville, FL, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1985

Final gameApril 14, 1997

Seasons13 (1985–1997)

St. Louis Cardinals 1985–1990; New York Mets 1991–1993; Kansas City Royals 1994–1995; Seattle Mariners 1995; Cincinnati Reds 1996; Detroit Tigers 1997

Percentile snapshot

1995 season — qualified batters

115

8.7

500

455

31.2

29.7

131

33.3

36.2

84.1

RBI

2.9

19.6

47.8

95.7

3.6

.288

51.4

OBP

.343

34.8

SLG

.398

23.9

OPS

.741

24.6

wRC+

93.8

22.5

OPS+

92.9

23.9

wOBA

.335

23.2

sWAR

0.7

14.5

of 139 qualified 1995 batters (min 449 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.3

17.7

OPS+

84.1

14.7

sWAR

4.1

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
1985	151	692	636	107	170	20	10	1	40	50	115	110	25	.267	.320	.335	.655	88.2	85.8	.308	0.5
1986	154	670	600	94	139	13	8	0	29	60	98	107	14	.232	.301	.280	.581	66.5	63.6	.280	-1.2
1987	151	702	623	121	180	14	10	3	43	70	126	109	22	.289	.363	.358	.721	98.0	91.9	.337	1.4
1988	153	679	616	77	160	20	10	3	38	49	111	81	27	.260	.313	.339	.652	88.5	87.9	.304	0.6
1989	145	624	563	94	143	21	9	2	28	50	90	65	10	.254	.316	.334	.650	88.0	84.4	.308	0.4
1990	124	539	497	73	145	18	9	6	39	35	88	77	17	.292	.340	.400	.741	106.8	103.8	.341	1.6
1991	72	318	278	45	71	7	5	1	17	39	47	37	14	.255	.347	.327	.674	99.8	92.4	.324	1.2
1992	71	261	229	37	63	11	1	2	21	27	41	24	9	.275	.355	.358	.713	107.2	103.6	.334	0.9
1993	92	399	373	64	104	14	8	2	25	21	58	38	13	.279	.316	.375	.691	86.1	86.2	.313	0.2
1994	104	477	438	61	105	14	12	2	33	29	72	50	8	.240	.285	.340	.626	58.6	59.5	.282	-1.4
1995	115	500	455	66	131	23	6	5	29	37	80	42	16	.288	.343	.398	.741	93.8	92.9	.335	0.7
1996	33	94	84	10	13	1	1	1	4	9	31	12	2	.155	.237	.226	.463	24.6	23.3	.223	-0.7
1997	6	15	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.071	.133	.071	.205	-51.5	-44.2	.109	-0.2

Career totals

1,371

5,970

5,406

849

1,425

176

220th-most career 3B

RBI

346

477

960

435th-most career SO

752

6th-most career SB

.2636

OBP

.3237

SLG

.3446

OPS

.6683

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
1990-07-24	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	1	1	1	9
1994-05-29	NYY @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	3	0	8
1985-08-01	STL @ CHC Gameday	7	3	4	0	2	0	0	0	8
1993-06-25	STL @ NYM Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	8
1985-04-19	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	2	0	7

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× Rookie of the Year2× 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.