Rafael Palmeiro played 20 seasons (1986–2005) for CHC, TEX and BAL. Career regular-season line: 3,020 hits, 569 home runs and a .288 average. Late Developer career, peaking in 1999. Honors: 4× All-Star Selections and 3× Gold Gloves.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
On the MLB Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 99.7th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
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Rate Rafael Palmeiro — All-Time
19 seasons · peak 16.5 in 1999
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
73.3 career wins over 19 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1999 · +6.3 wins
6.3 of TEX's 95 wins (7%)
Latest season · 2005 · +1.2 wins
1.2 of BAL's 74 wins (2%)
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia. Team wins are the club's actual regular-season wins, counted from pitcher decisions, which can miss a few games; a traded season, or one whose club record is missing, shows no share.
How often Rafael Palmeiro led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 11 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1999, 19 rated seasons.
Season boards
11
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
Where Rafael Palmeiro ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
The season chip above measures Rafael Palmeiro's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 20 seasons (1986–2005) — a true nomad. The crest trail: