Tim Raines Sr. played 23 seasons (1979–2002) for WSH, CWS, NYY and 3 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 2,605 hits, 170 home runs and a .294 average. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1987. Led the league in a statistical category 4 times. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2017. Honors: 7× All-Star Selections and 1× Silver Sluggers.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 99.5th 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 ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms
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.
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Rate Tim Raines Sr. — All-Time
21 seasons · peak 16.9 in 1987
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.
64.3 career wins over 21 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1987 · +6.5 wins
Latest season · 2002 · −0.1 wins
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.
How often Tim Raines Sr. 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 · 18 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1987, 21 rated seasons.
Season boards
18
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
The season chip above measures Tim Raines Sr.'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 6 distinct franchise crests across 24 seasons (1979–2002) — a true nomad. The crest trail: