Wade Boggs Stats

Wade Boggs was born on Sunday, June 15, 1958, in Omaha, Nebraska. Boggs was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 10, 1982, with the Boston Red Sox. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Wade Boggs baseball stats page.

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"But, most assuredly, the Boston batting order can be awesome. When a pitcher faces a one-through-seven lineup of Dwight Evans, Wade Boggs, Bill Buckner, Jim Rice, Don Baylor, Tony Armas (when he's healthy) and Rich Gedman, he can't be blamed if he envisions himself as a target in a shooting gallery." - Kuenster, John. Baseball Digest. August 1986. Page 7.

Wade Boggs

Wade 'Chicken Man' Boggs Autograph on a 1986 Leaf Baseball Card (#11)

Wade 'Chicken Man' Boggs Autograph on a 1986 Leaf Baseball Card (#11)

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Birth Name:   Wade Anthony Boggs (Twitter: @ChickenMan3010)
Nickname:   Chicken Man
Born On:   06-15-1958  (Gemini)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Omaha, Nebraska
Year of Death Data Died On:   Still Living (500 Oldest Living)
Place of Death Data Died In:   Still Living
Cemetery:   n/a
High School:   Plant High School (Tampa, FL)
College:   Hillsborough Community College
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-02   Player Weight Chart Weight:   197
First Game:   04-10-1982 (Age 23)
Last Game:   08-27-1999
Draft:   1976 : 7th Round (166th) / Signing Bonus = $7,500

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Wade Boggs Pitching Stats

1997 39 Yankees 1 0 1 0 0 .000 0.00 0 0 0 1.0 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 -
1999 41 Devil Rays 1 0 1 0 0 .000 6.75 0 0 0 1.1 7 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 Years 2 0 2 0 0 .000 3.86 0 0 0 2.1 11 3 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0

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Wade Boggs Hitting Stats

1982 24 Red Sox 104 338 51 118 14 1 5 0 44 35 4 21 4 4 0 9 .349 .406 .441
1983 25 Red Sox 153 582 100 210 44 7 5 0 74 92 2 36 3 7 1 15 .361 .444 .486
1984 26 Red Sox 158 625 109 203 31 4 6 0 55 89 6 44 8 4 0 13 .325 .407 .416
1985 27 Red Sox 161 653 107 240 42 3 8 0 78 96 5 61 3 2 4 20 .368 .450 .478
1986 28 Red Sox 149 580 107 207 47 2 8 1 71 105 14 44 4 4 0 11 .357 .453 .486
1987 29 Red Sox 147 551 108 200 40 6 24 1 89 105 19 48 1 8 2 13 .363 .461 .588
1988 30 Red Sox 155 584 128 214 45 6 5 0 58 125 18 34 0 7 3 23 .366 .476 .490
1989 31 Red Sox 156 621 113 205 51 7 3 0 54 107 19 51 0 7 7 19 .330 .430 .449
1990 32 Red Sox 155 619 89 187 44 5 6 0 63 87 19 68 0 6 1 14 .302 .386 .418
1991 33 Red Sox 144 546 93 181 42 2 8 0 51 89 25 32 0 6 0 16 .332 .421 .460
1992 34 Red Sox 143 514 62 133 22 4 7 1 50 74 19 31 0 6 4 10 .259 .353 .358
1993 35 Yankees 143 560 83 169 26 1 2 0 59 74 4 49 1 9 0 10 .302 .378 .363
1994 36 Yankees 97 366 61 125 19 1 11 0 55 61 3 29 2 4 1 10 .342 .433 .489
1995 37 Yankees 126 460 76 149 22 4 5 0 63 74 5 50 0 7 0 13 .324 .412 .422
1996 38 Yankees 132 501 80 156 29 2 2 0 41 67 7 32 1 5 0 10 .311 .389 .389
1997 39 Yankees 104 353 55 103 23 1 4 0 28 48 3 38 2 4 0 3 .292 .373 .397
1998 40 Devil Rays 123 435 51 122 23 4 7 1 52 46 6 54 0 2 0 13 .280 .348 .400
1999 41 Devil Rays 90 292 40 88 14 1 2 0 29 38 2 23 0 4 0 14 .301 .377 .377
18 Years 2,440 9,180 1,513 3,010 578 61 118 4 1,014 1,412 180 745 29 96 23 236 .328 .415 .443

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Wade Boggs Fielding Stats

1982 Red Sox 1B 49 44 1,268 512 10.4 509 460 49 3 40 n/a n/a n/a .994 10.84
1982 Red Sox 3B 44 39 1,059 152 3.5 147 28 119 5 11 n/a n/a n/a .967 3.75
1982 Red Sox LF 1 0 12 1 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 2.25
1983 Red Sox 3B 153 153 4,062 513 3.4 486 118 368 27 40 n/a n/a n/a .947 3.23
1984 Red Sox 3B 156 156 4,084 491 3.1 471 141 330 20 30 n/a n/a n/a .959 3.11
1985 Red Sox 3B 161 159 4,252 486 3.0 469 134 335 17 30 n/a n/a n/a .965 2.98
1986 Red Sox 3B 149 148 3,881 407 2.7 388 121 267 19 30 n/a n/a n/a .953 2.70
1987 Red Sox 1B 1 0 6 1 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 4.50
1987 Red Sox 3B 145 145 3,801 402 2.8 388 111 277 14 37 n/a n/a n/a .965 2.76
1988 Red Sox 3B 151 151 3,941 383 2.5 372 122 250 11 17 n/a n/a n/a .971 2.55
1989 Red Sox 3B 152 152 4,018 404 2.7 387 123 264 17 29 n/a n/a n/a .958 2.60
1990 Red Sox 3B 152 152 4,022 369 2.4 349 108 241 20 18 n/a n/a n/a .946 2.34
1991 Red Sox 3B 140 139 3,590 377 2.7 365 89 276 12 34 n/a n/a n/a .968 2.75
1992 Red Sox 3B 117 114 2,982 314 2.7 299 70 229 15 23 n/a n/a n/a .952 2.71
1993 Yankees 3B 134 129 3,368 398 3.0 386 75 311 12 29 n/a n/a n/a .970 3.09
1994 Yankees 1B 4 2 85 30 7.5 30 26 4 0 2 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 9.53
1994 Yankees 3B 93 87 2,350 264 2.8 254 40 214 10 19 n/a n/a n/a .962 2.92
1995 Yankees 1B 9 6 176 50 5.6 50 45 5 0 4 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 7.67
1995 Yankees 3B 117 105 2,805 267 2.3 262 69 193 5 11 n/a n/a n/a .981 2.52
1996 Yankees 3B 123 120 3,077 270 2.2 263 62 201 7 24 n/a n/a n/a .974 2.31
1997 Yankees 3B 76 70 1,833 186 2.4 182 42 140 4 15 n/a n/a n/a .978 2.68
1997 Yankees P 1 0 3 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 n/a n/a n/a .000 0.00
1998 Devil Rays 3B 78 75 1,918 188 2.4 183 52 131 5 12 n/a n/a n/a .973 2.58
1999 Devil Rays 1B 4 3 84 32 8.0 32 32 0 0 3 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 10.29
1999 Devil Rays 3B 74 72 1,721 154 2.1 145 45 100 9 14 n/a n/a n/a .942 2.27
1999 Devil Rays P 1 0 4 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 n/a n/a n/a .000 0.00
3B Totals 2,215 2,166 56,764 6,025 2.7 5,796 1,550 4,246 229 423 n/a n/a n/a .962 2.76
1B Totals 67 55 1,619 625 9.3 622 564 58 3 49 n/a n/a n/a .995 10.37
P Totals 2 0 7 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 n/a n/a n/a .000 0.00
LF Totals 1 0 12 1 1.0 1 1 0 0 0 n/a n/a n/a 1.000 2.25
18 Years 2,285 2,221 58,402 6,651 2.9 6,419 2,115 4,304 232 472 n/a n/a n/a .965 2.97

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Wade Boggs Miscellaneous Stats

1982 Red Sox 1 0 1.000 14 2 3 67.6 16.1 7.7 - - -
1983 Red Sox 3 3 .500 0 0 0 116.4 16.2 7.9 - - -
1984 Red Sox 3 2 .600 1 0 2 104.2 14.2 11.4 - - -
1985 Red Sox 2 1 .667 1 0 0 81.6 10.7 8.4 - - -
1986 Red Sox 0 4 .000 1 0 0 72.5 13.2 8.2 - - -
1987 Red Sox 1 3 .250 1 0 1 23.0 11.5 6.2 - - -
1988 Red Sox 2 3 .400 1 0 3 116.8 17.2 10.1 - - -
1989 Red Sox 2 6 .250 1 0 3 207.0 12.2 11.5 - - -
1990 Red Sox 0 0 .000 0 0 3 103.2 9.1 9.8 - - -
1991 Red Sox 1 2 .333 4 0 0 68.3 17.1 10.7 - - -
1992 Red Sox 1 3 .250 7 0 21 73.4 16.6 10.3 - - -
1993 Yankees 0 1 .000 6 0 8 280.0 11.4 9.5 - - -
1994 Yankees 2 1 .667 8 0 0 33.3 12.6 6.7 - - -
1995 Yankees 1 1 .500 14 0 0 92.0 9.2 7.3 - - -
1996 Yankees 1 2 .333 7 0 4 250.5 15.7 12.2 - - -
1997 Yankees 0 1 .000 14 0 19 88.3 9.3 12.6 1.00 9.00 9.00
1998 Devil Rays 3 2 .600 15 0 33 62.1 8.1 8.4 - - -
1999 Devil Rays 1 0 1.000 7 0 8 146.0 12.7 10.1 0.00 6.75 0.00
18 Years 24 35 .407 102 2 108 77.8 12.3 9.1 2.00 7.72 3.86

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Wade Boggs Miscellaneous Items of Interest

1982 Boston Red Sox 26 $33,500.00 - -
1983 Boston Red Sox 26 $35,000.00 - -
1984 Boston Red Sox 26 $40,000.00 - -
1985 Boston Red Sox 26 $1,000,000.00 Stats -
1986 Boston Red Sox 26 $1,350,000.00 Stats Stats
1987 Boston Red Sox 26 $1,675,000.00 Stats -
1988 Boston Red Sox 26 $1,650,000.00 Stats -
1989 Boston Red Sox 26 $1,850,000.00 Stats -
1990 Boston Red Sox 26 $1,900,000.00 Stats -
1991 Boston Red Sox 26 $2,750,000.00 Stats -
1992 Boston Red Sox 26 $2,700,000.00 Stats -
1993 New York Yankees 12 $2,950,000.00 Stats -
1994 New York Yankees 12 $3,200,000.00 Stats n/a
1995 New York Yankees 12 $4,724,316.00 Stats -
1996 New York Yankees 12 $2,050,000.00 Stats Stats
1997 New York Yankees 12 $2,000,000.00 - -
1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 12 $1,150,000.00 - -
1999 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 12 $750,000.00 - -

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Wade Anthony Boggs was a Major League Baseball player with the Boston Red Sox (1982-1992), New York Yankees (1993-1997), and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998-1999). In his first full season (1983) in the majors, Boggs had 210 hits, breaking the Red Sox record (208 hits / 1946) for most hits in a season by left-handed batter. Who held that record? [Answer]

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Wade Boggs Rookie Card | 1983 Topps Baseball Card (#498)
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Wade Boggs "only" had 203 hits in 1984, but when "connected" with his 210-hit season in 1983, he became the first Red Sox lefty with back-to-back seasons with two-hundred or more hits.

Wade Boggs had a career high 240 hits in 1985, his third consecutive season with two-hundred or more hits, and he set a still-standing Red Sox record for hits in a season by any type hitter (lefty, righty, or switch hitter) in team history.

Wade Boggs took the field at third base one-hundred sixty-one times in 1985, another still-standing Red Sox record for most games played in a season by a third baseman. Do you know who held the record before Boggs? [Answer]

Wade Boggs was a five-time batting champion, first in 1983, then he won each year from 1985 through 1988. The only other players in baseball history with four-or-more consecutive batting titles are Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Rod Carew, and Tony Gwynn!

Wade Boggs had seven 200-hit seasons in his career, the sixth most in Major League Baseball history at the time of his retirement. The five players with more were: Pete Rose (10), Ty Cobb (9), Lou Gehrig (8), Paul Waner (8), and Willie Keeler (8).

Did you know that when Wade Boggs joined the 3,000 Hits Club on August 7, 1999, he became the first member in baseball history whose three-thousandth career hit was a home run?

Did you know that Wade Boggs, on August 7, 1999, hit the first home run in franchise history for the Tampa Bay Rays? During that contest, Boggs also became the first Rays third baseman, the first player with an RBI, and the first to get walked — while the bases were full.

Did you know that Wade Boggs never led the American League in fielding percentage by a third baseman while playing in Boston, but after getting traded to the New York Yankees, he led in 1993 (.970) and 1994 (.981), capturing his first and only two Gold Gloves?

Did you know that when Wade Boggs hit his 114th career home run, on June 15, 1998, it was also his fortieth birthday? Only two players before Boggs had ever homered on their 40th birthday, Bob Thurman in 1957, and a Hall of Fame player in 1983. Who was it? [Answer]

Did you know that when The Sporting News released their list of the 100 Greatest Players in baseball history (in 1998), Wade Boggs was number ninety-five?

Did you know that Wade Boggs #12 was retired by the Rays on April 7, 2000, and his #26 by the Red Sox on May 26, 2016? II (Interesting Information): Boggs was a member of the inaugural Tampa Bay Rays (1998), so no other player wore #12 before him, or after him!

WADE BOGGS HALL OF FAME PLAQUE

Wade Boggs | National Baseball Hall of Fame Plaque | Class of 2005 (HOF)

Wade Boggs was an All-Star from 1985 through 1996 — twelve consecutive seasons. The only two third baseman in baseball history with more consecutive All-Star appearances were George Brett (13) and Brooks Robinson (18)!