Gary Sheffield

==Career highlights==
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|+ '''Championships earned or shared'''
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| [[National League (baseball)|National League]] [[List of Major League Baseball batting champions|batting champion]] 
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| [[1992 Major League Baseball season|1992]]
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| National League [[List of National League pennant winners|champion]] 
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| [[1997 National League Championship Series|1997]] 
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| [[World Series]] [[List of World Series champions|champion]] 
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| [[1997 World Series|1997]]
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|+ '''Awards received'''
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| [[ESPY Awards|ESPY Award]] for Best Breakthrough Athlete 
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| 1993
|<ref>{{cite book |title=The ESPN Sports Almanac |year=2008 |publisher=ESPN Books |isbn=978-1-933060-38-5 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/2008espnsportsal00brow/page/528 528] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/2008espnsportsal00brow/page/528 }}</ref>
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| Florida Marlins Most Valuable Player Award 
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| 1996
| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/awards.php?p=sheffga01 |title=Gary Sheffield awards |work=[[Baseball Almanac]] |access-date=August 27, 2016}}</ref>
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| [[Gatorade Player of the Year awards#Baseball|Gatorade National High School Baseball Player of the Year]] 
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| 1986
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| [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|Major League Baseball All-Star]]
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| [[1992 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1992]]–[[1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|93]], [[1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1996]], [[1998 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1998]]–[[2000 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|2000]], [[2003 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|2003]]–[[2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|05]]
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| [[Major League Baseball Player of the Month Award|Major League Baseball Player of the Month]] 
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| August 1992
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| [[Major League Baseball Player of the Week Award|Major League Baseball Player of the Week]]
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| 1992 May 24, 1993 Jun 13, 1994 May 1, 1995 Sep 24,<br /> 1996 Aug 11, 2000 Jun 18, 2000 Jul 16, 2001 Apr 15,<br /> 2003 May 18, 2004 Jun 6, 2005 Jul 17, 2007 Jun 10
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| [[Silver Slugger Award]]
* at [[List of Silver Slugger Award winners at third base|third base]] 
* 4× at [[List of Silver Slugger Award winners at outfield|outfield]] 
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| <br />1992 <br /> 1996, 2003−05
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| [[Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award|''Sporting News'' Comeback Player of the Year]] 
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| 1992
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| [[Sporting News MLB Player of the Year Award|''Sporting News'' Major League Player of the Year]] 
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| 1992
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| [[Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year Award|''Sporting News'' Minor League Player of the Year]] 
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| 1988
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| ''[[USA Today]]'' Top High School Baseball Player 
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| 1986
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===Achievements===
*Became only the second Padres hitter in franchise history to win a batting title joining [[Tony Gwynn]]
*Holds Los Angeles Dodgers single-season record for at-bats per home run (11.7 in 2000)
*His Tampa team finished second in the 1980 [[Little League World Series]]
*Is the first player to represent five different teams in the [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]].
*Tied [[Paul O'Neill (baseball)|Paul O'Neill]] as the oldest player to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in a season, at age 38 (2007)
*First player to hit at least 25 home runs for 6 different teams
*25th player in MLB history to reach 500 home runs, and the first player to do so as a Met
*Had 8 seasons with 30 or more home runs
*Holds the record for most MLB ballparks played in (51) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V4CkqFlzgHvjeLpHtTy_Cyj2Sb43YsnKcG5koHQ6S3w/edit?usp=embed_facebook|title=Most MLB Ballparks Played In|website=Google Docs|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=31257|title=Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast|website=www.stitcher.com|language=en|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref>
*One of 2 players in MLB history, along with [[Fred McGriff]], to have 30 or more home runs in one season for 5 different teams (Los Angeles Dodgers [3×]; New York Yankees [2×]; Atlanta Braves, Florida Marlins and San Diego Padres [1×]) <ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sheffga01.shtml?redir *Winner of the 2nd Annual Black Masters in 2019 Gary Sheffield Statistics and History] ''Baseball-Reference.com''</ref><ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcgrifr01-bat.shtml Fred McGriff Batting Statistics and History] ''Baseball-Reference.com''</ref>

===Statistical leader===
*Led National League in batting average (.330) and total bases (323) in 1992
*Led National League in on-base percentage (.465) and OPS (1.090) in 1996

===National Baseball Hall of Fame consideration===
Sheffield first appeared on balloting for the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame]] in [[2015 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|2015]], when he received 11.7% of the vote, well short of the 75% required for election, but above the 5% minimum required to remain on the ballot.
In 2024, his tenth and final appearance on the BBWAA ballot, he received 63.9%, falling short of the necessary threshold.