CAREER BATTING STATISTICS
			BATTING
Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	Avg	OBP	SLG	OPS
1972	LAN	NL	35	106	18	29	0	1	4	15	16	26	0.274	0.374	0.406	0.780
1973	LAN	NL	54	134	18	34	5	0	2	10	15	33	0.254	0.340	0.336	0.676
1974	LAN	NL	94	316	41	84	16	1	12	41	32	77	0.266	0.334	0.437	0.771
1975	LAN	NL	135	452	34	103	16	1	12	54	40	75	0.228	0.298	0.347	0.646
1976	LAN	NL	117	359	42	77	11	3	11	35	30	84	0.214	0.286	0.354	0.640
1977	LAN	NL	125	387	53	99	21	2	16	55	43	84	0.256	0.334	0.444	0.779
1978	LAN	NL	94	228	19	44	7	0	4	23	36	41	0.193	0.301	0.276	0.577
1979	LAN	NL	105	310	33	67	9	2	13	41	29	68	0.216	0.282	0.384	0.665
1980	LAN	NL	96	227	20	48	8	0	2	20	20	54	0.211	0.274	0.273	0.547
1981	LAN	NL	42	86	5	18	2	0	3	7	6	14	0.209	0.261	0.337	0.598
1982	LAN	NL	82	196	13	48	5	2	2	18	13	28	0.245	0.294	0.321	0.615
1983	LAN	NL	113	335	31	68	8	3	15	41	23	57	0.203	0.256	0.379	0.635
1984	LAN	NL	74	197	16	45	4	0	4	29	20	38	0.228	0.295	0.310	0.605
1985	LAN	NL	53	121	4	25	4	1	0	9	7	24	0.207	0.246	0.256	0.502
1986	SEA	AL	50	130	10	27	2	0	2	12	12	23	0.208	0.273	0.269	0.542
			G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	Avg	OBP	SLG	OPS
Totals			1269	3584	357	816	118	16	102	410	342	726	0.228	0.298	0.355	0.653
			BATTING						BASERUNNING					PERFORMANCE
Year	Team	Lg	HBP	GDP	TB	IBB	SH	SF	SB	CS	SB%	AB/HR	AB/K	WS	RC	RC27
1972	LAN	NL	1	3	43	2	1	0	0	0	0.000	26.50	4.08	5	15	5.05
1973	LAN	NL	3	4	45	1	1	1	1	0	0.000	67.00	4.06	5	16	4.10
1974	LAN	NL	2	7	138	5	1	3	2	2	0.500	26.33	4.10	15	46	5.11
1975	LAN	NL	8	15	157	7	9	6	2	5	0.286	37.67	6.03	12	42	2.97
1976	LAN	NL	7	5	127	3	1	2	3	1	0.750	32.64	4.27	13	37	3.45
1977	LAN	NL	4	7	172	11	1	3	1	3	0.250	24.19	4.61	16	55	4.95
1978	LAN	NL	0	3	63	11	0	2	0	0	0.000	57.00	5.56	6	19	2.70
1979	LAN	NL	0	12	119	8	5	2	1	0	0.000	23.85	4.56	7	31	3.20
1980	LAN	NL	0	7	62	6	0	1	2	3	0.400	113.50	4.20	4	13	1.86
1981	LAN	NL	0	2	29	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	28.67	6.14	2	7	2.72
1982	LAN	NL	1	3	63	3	4	1	0	0	0.000	98.00	7.00	5	17	2.97
1983	LAN	NL	1	15	127	4	6	1	1	1	0.500	22.33	5.88	7	27	2.52
1984	LAN	NL	0	2	61	1	1	3	1	2	0.333	49.25	5.18	5	18	3.05
1985	LAN	NL	0	3	31	2	1	2	0	1	0.000	0.00	5.04	2	6	1.58
1986	SEA	AL	0	5	35	0	2	1	0	0	0.000	65.00	5.65	2	8	1.94
			HBP	GDP	TB	IBB	SH	SF	SB	CS	SB%	AB/HR	AB/K	WS	RC	RC27
Totals			27	93	1272	64	33	28	14	18	0.44	35.14	4.94	106	357	3.21
	CAREER FIELDING STATISTICS
Year	Team	Lg	POS	G	PO	A	E	DP	FPCT	INN	PB	SBc	CSc	CS%	PkO
1972	LAN	NL	C	35	220	19	4	2	0.984	306.0	2	20	8	0.286	2
1973	LAN	NL	C	50	230	24	5	2	0.981	361.3	5	20	8	0.286	1
1974	LAN	NL	C	93	552	58	5	4	0.992	808.7	10	40	24	0.375	6
1975	LAN	NL	C	135	806	62	7	4	0.992	1179.7	11	51	21	0.292	3
1976	LAN	NL	C	115	522	77	9	9	0.985	948.0	6	53	36	0.404	4
1977	LAN	NL	C	123	690	89	18	12	0.977	1014.3	6	56	36	0.391	10
1978	LAN	NL	C	91	373	55	5	3	0.988	627.7	2	40	35	0.467	8
1979	LAN	NL	C	103	513	56	9	7	0.984	803.0	9	55	38	0.409	3
1980	LAN	NL	C	95	382	36	7	5	0.984	613.3	4	55	18	0.247	5
1981	LAN	NL	C	40	142	13	1	1	0.994	230.3	2	15	9	0.375	0
1982	LAN	NL	C	76	338	42	4	8	0.990	523.3	1	37	28	0.431	1
1983	LAN	NL	C	112	579	63	10	10	0.985	867.3	6	63	49	0.438	1
1984	LAN	NL	C	65	317	30	2	1	0.994	470.7	5	45	18	0.286	0
1985	LAN	NL	C	48	212	28	2	2	0.992	302.0	2	21	22	0.512	0
1986	SEA	AL	C	49	234	22	0	5	1.000	369.0	7	24	14	0.368	0
			POS	G	PO	A	E	DP	FPCT	INN	PB	SBc	CSc	CS%	PkO
Totals				1230	6110	674	88	75	0.987	9424.7	78	595	364	0.38	44
POST SEASON BATTING
			BATTING
Year	Team	Lg	Playoff	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	K	Avg
1974	LAN	NL	NLCS	3	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	3	0.000
1974	LAN	NL	WS	4	11	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	0.364
1977	LAN	NL	NLCS	4	13	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	3	0.231
1977	LAN	NL	WS	6	19	2	6	1	0	2	5	0	0	1	1	0.316
1978	LAN	NL	NLCS	4	13	2	3	0	0	1	2	1	0	2	2	0.231
1978	LAN	NL	WS	5	13	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0.231
1981	LAN	NL	NWDIV	2	5	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.400
1981	LAN	NL	NLCS	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.500
1981	LAN	NL	WS	6	14	2	4	1	0	2	4	0	0	0	2	0.286
1983	LAN	NL	NLCS	2	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.167
1985	LAN	NL	NLCS	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.000
				G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	K	Avg
Totals				38	107	12	27	6	0	5	14	2	0	10	19	0.252
POST SEASON FIELDING
	Year	Team	Lg	Playoff	Pos	G	PO	A	E	FPCT	INN	PB	SBc	CSc	CS%
	1974	LAN	NL	WS	C	4	32	4	1	0.973	33.0	0	2	3	0.60
	1974	LAN	NL	NLCS	C	3	14	1	0	1.000	25.0	0	0	0	0.00
	1977	LAN	NL	WS	C	6	32	6	0	1.000	50.0	0	1	0	0.00
	1977	LAN	NL	NLCS	C	4	22	1	0	1.000	35.0	0	1	0	0.00
	1978	LAN	NL	WS	C	5	23	2	0	1.000	37.0	1	5	2	0.29
	1978	LAN	NL	NLCS	C	4	21	2	0	1.000	35.0	0	0	1	1.00
	1981	LAN	NL	WS	C	6	20	0	0	1.000	38.0	0	3	0	0.00
	1981	LAN	NL	NLCS	C	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.0	0	0	0	0.00
	1981	LAN	NL	NWDIV	C	2	6	0	0	1.000	9.7	0	0	0	0.00
	1983	LAN	NL	NLCS	C	2	7	1	0	1.000	16.0	0	0	0	0.00
	1985	LAN	NL	NLCS	C	1	4	0	0	1.000	4.0	0	0	0	0.00
					Pos	G	PO	A	E	FPCT	INN	PB	SBc	CSc	CS%
	Totals					38	183	17	1	0.995	283.7	1	12	6	0.33

Steve Yeager played in four World Series, including the 1981 Fall Classic when the Dodgers came back from a two-games-to-none deficit to defeat the New York Yankees and win their first crown in 16 years.  During that series, Yeager hit .286 and belted a pair of home runs, including a seventh-inning shot that broke a 1-1 tie in the Dodgers’ 2-1 Game 5 triumph.  He was subsequently honored as the World Series Tri-Most Valuable Player, sharing the accolades with teammates Ron Cey and Pedro Guerrero. Overall in 21 World Series contests, Yeager batted .316 with four homers and 10 RBI, having also played in the 1974, 1977 and 1978 series.

In addition to the four pennant winners, Yeager played on two other division championship squads (1983 and 1985) with the Dodgers and five division runner-ups.  He ranks third on the Los Angeles Dodgers’ all-time list in games caught with 1,230.

A one-team career catcher, Yeager was well-respected behind the plate, and Lou Brock called him "the best-throwing catcher in the game." He was an intelligent game-caller and a team leader on six Dodger division winners.

In an extra-inning game on August 8, 1972, Yeager tied a NL record for catchers with 22 putouts and set another with 24 chances accepted. In 1974 the Dodgers won their first 24 games in which Yeager started behind the plate. He never batted more than .256 as a regular, but he reached double figures in home runs six times.

Yeager introduced the neck protector (aka. billygoat), the flap attached to the catcher's mask, first donning it after a freak 1976 accident; he was hit with the jagged end of a broken bat while in the on-deck circle, and had nine splinters removed from his neck. The nephew of legendary pilot Chuck Yeager, Steve became accustomed to notoriety. He gained attention by posing for a Playgirl centerfold. The best man at his wedding was Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley.

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