Ultimate Mets Database - Kevin Elster

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Kevin Elster
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 51 of 1271 players

Kevin Daniel Elster
Born: August 3, 1964 at San Pedro, Cal.
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 6.02 Weight: 180

Kevin Elster has been the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup 13 times, most recently on December 15, 2020.

First Mets game: September 2, 1986
Last Mets game: April 12, 1992

Uniform Numbers:

Uniform Number	Start Date	End Date
2	September 2, 1986	October 27, 1986
21	September 9, 1987	October 6, 1991
15	April 6, 1992	April 15, 1992

2,+21,+15

Kevin Elster also played for the following teams:

New York Yankees 1994, 1995; Philadelphia Phillies 1995; Texas Rangers 1996, 1998; Pittsburgh Pirates 1997; Los Angeles Dodgers 2000.

Selected by New York Mets organization in second round of free agent draft on January 17, 1984.

Signed with Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent on January 12, 1993.

On disabled list:

from August 4, 1990 to October 29, 1990 (tendinitis in right shoulder)

Click the icon to see a graph of Kevin Elster's batting, slugging, and on base percentages

Batting Record with New York Mets

Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SB CS SH SF TB Avg. Slg. OBP

1986 19 30 3 5 1 0 0 0 3 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 6 .167 .200 .242

1987 5 10 1 4 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 .400 .600 .400

1988 149 406 41 87 11 1 9 37 35 12 47 3 2 0 6 0 127 .214 .313 .282

1989 151 458 52 106 25 2 10 55 34 11 77 2 4 3 6 8 165 .231 .360 .283

1990 92 314 36 65 20 1 9 45 30 2 54 1 2 0 1 6 114 .207 .363 .274

1991 115 348 33 84 16 2 6 36 40 6 53 1 2 3 1 4 122 .241 .351 .318

1992 6 18 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 .222 .222 .222

7 years 537 1584 166 355 75 6 34 174 142 32 242 7 10 6 14 18 544 .224 .343 .288

League Championship Series Record

Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SB CS SH SF TB Avg. Slg. OBP

1986 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000

1988 5 8 1 2 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .250 .375 .455

2 years 9 11 1 2 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .182 .273 .357

World Series Record

Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SB CS SH SF TB Avg. Slg. OBP

1986 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000

1 year 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000

Led Mets in sacrifice flies with 8 in 1989.

Games where Kevin Elster had 2 or more Home Runs
vs. Los Angeles (NL) 09/02/88.

Games where Kevin Elster had 4 or more Hits
At Atlanta (NL) 04/26/88. At Los Angeles (NL) 05/22/90.

Games played by position
1986: Shortstop 19
1987: Shortstop 3
1988: Shortstop 148
1989: Shortstop 150
1990: Shortstop 92
1991: Shortstop 107
1992: Shortstop 5

Lineup Analysis
Number of games in each batting order position in games in which Kevin Elster was in the starting lineup.

Year 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

1986 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0
1987 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1988 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 122 0
1989 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 134 0
1990 0 10 0 0 0 1 30 50 0
1991 0 27 0 0 0 0 30 41 0
1992 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
Totals 0 38 0 0 0 1 66 357 0

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