A. J. Pierzynski

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 250 lb

BornDecember 30, 1976 · Bridgehampton, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1998

Final gameSeptember 10, 2016

Seasons19 (1998–2016)

Minnesota Twins 1998–2003; San Francisco Giants 2004; Chicago White Sox 2005–2012; Texas Rangers 2013; Boston Red Sox 2014; St. Louis Cardinals 2014; Atlanta Braves 2015–2016

Percentile snapshot

2013 season — qualified batters

134

14.4

529

17.3

503

27.3

2.9

137

33.8

19.4

20.9

47.5

RBI

48.9

10.8

60.4

.272

48.2

OBP

.297

8.6

SLG

.425

46.8

OPS

.722

25.9

wRC+

91.4

OPS+

94.9

19.4

wOBA

.313

18.7

sWAR

2.2

37.4

of 140 qualified 2013 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.3

25.3

OPS+

94.1

29.6

sWAR

34.2

97.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1998	7	13	10	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.300	.385	.300	.685	85.5	81.2	.320	0.1
1999	9	24	22	3	6	2	0	0	3	1	4	0	0	.273	.333	.364	.697	77.6	76.0	.317	0.1
2000	33	96	88	12	27	5	1	2	11	5	14	1	0	.307	.354	.455	.809	100.9	100.5	.356	0.6
2001	114	405	381	51	110	33	2	7	55	16	57	1	7	.289	.322	.441	.763	94.6	97.6	.328	2.0
2002	130	469	440	54	132	31	6	6	49	13	61	1	2	.300	.334	.439	.773	103.7	103.9	.337	2.8
2003	137	533	487	63	152	35	3	11	74	24	55	3	1	.312	.360	.464	.824	111.1	114.9	.352	3.6
2004	131	510	471	45	128	28	2	11	77	19	27	0	1	.272	.319	.410	.729	85.1	87.0	.319	1.7
2005	128	497	460	61	118	21	0	18	56	23	68	0	2	.257	.308	.420	.728	86.3	88.9	.315	1.9
2006	140	543	509	65	150	24	0	16	64	22	72	1	0	.295	.333	.436	.769	93.1	95.3	.333	2.5
2007	136	509	472	54	124	24	0	14	50	25	66	1	1	.263	.309	.403	.712	80.1	83.5	.313	1.5
2008	134	570	534	66	150	31	1	13	60	19	71	1	0	.281	.312	.416	.728	84.7	88.8	.318	2.0
2009	138	535	504	57	151	22	1	13	49	24	52	1	1	.300	.331	.425	.755	90.2	93.7	.327	2.2
2010	128	503	474	43	128	29	0	9	56	15	39	3	4	.270	.300	.388	.688	81.5	84.8	.304	1.7
2011	129	500	464	38	133	29	1	8	48	23	33	0	0	.287	.323	.405	.728	91.1	94.9	.317	2.1
2012	135	520	479	68	133	18	4	27	77	28	78	0	0	.278	.326	.501	.827	118.8	120.3	.351	4.1
2013	134	529	503	48	137	24	1	17	70	11	76	1	1	.272	.297	.425	.722	91.4	94.9	.313	2.2
2014	102	362	338	25	85	12	1	5	37	14	54	0	1	.251	.288	.337	.625	71.0	75.4	.279	0.7
2015	113	436	407	38	122	24	1	9	49	19	37	0	2	.300	.339	.430	.769	110.8	110.2	.338	3.0
2016	81	259	247	15	54	15	0	2	23	6	29	1	0	.219	.243	.304	.547	37.2	45.1	.239	-0.6

Career totals

2,059

217th-most career G

7,813

321st-most career PA

7,290

252nd-most career AB

807

2,043

273rd-most career H

407

184th-most career 2B

188

437th-most career HR

RBI

909

399th-most career RBI

308

895

.2802

OBP

.3186

SLG

.4200

OPS

.7386

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2011-09-18	CWS @ KC Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	4	10
2005-10-04	BOS @ CWS Gameday	3	4	3	1	2	4	10
2003-06-12	COL @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	7	9
2012-06-29	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3	9
2015-09-29	WSH @ ATL Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	2	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Silver Slugger2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.