Dave Winfield

Dave Winfield
Winfield with the San Diego Padres in 1978
Right fielder
Born: (1951-10-03) October 3, 1951 (age 73)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 19, 1973, for the San Diego Padres
Last MLB appearance
October 1, 1995, for the Cleveland Indians
MLB statistics
Batting average.283
Hits3,110
Home runs465
Runs batted in1,833
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Teams
Career highlights and awards
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction2001
Vote84.5% (first ballot)

David Mark Winfield (born October 3, 1951) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. He is the special assistant to the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association.[1] Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians. He had the winning hit in the 1992 World Series with the Blue Jays over the Atlanta Braves.

Winfield is a 12-time MLB All-Star, a seven-time Gold Glove Award winner, and a six-time Silver Slugger Award winner. The Padres retired Winfield's No. 31 in his honor. He also wore No. 31 while playing for the Yankees and Indians and wore No. 32 with the Angels, Blue Jays and Twins. In 2004, ESPN named him the third-best all-around athlete of all time in any sport.[2] He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001 in his first year of eligibility, and was an inaugural inductee into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

  1. ^ "David Winfield joins MLBPA as special assistant to Clark". ESPN. December 5, 2013. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  2. ^ Merron, Jeff (April 26, 2004). "The best all-around athletes". ESPN. Retrieved January 13, 2011.