Aaron Boone

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 9, 1973 · La Mesa, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 20, 1997

Final gameOctober 4, 2009

Seasons12 (1997–2009)

Cincinnati Reds 1997–2003; New York Yankees 2003; Cleveland Indians 2005–2006; Florida Marlins 2007; Washington Nationals 2008; Houston Astros 2009

Percentile snapshot

2005 season — qualified batters

143

34.5

565

28.4

511

31.1

10.8

124

11.5

4.1

11.5

38.5

RBI

25.7

16.9

49.3

60.8

41.9

.243

2.7

OBP

.299

3.4

SLG

.378

13.5

OPS

.677

6.1

wRC+

80.1

6.1

OPS+

81.7

8.1

wOBA

.297

sWAR

0.8

13.5

of 149 qualified 2005 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.4

28.8

OPS+

93.7

28.9

sWAR

11.7

88.5

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
1997	16	52	49	5	12	1	0	0	5	2	5	1	0	.245	.275	.265	.540	38.0	41.9	.250	-0.2
1998	58	206	181	24	51	13	2	2	28	15	36	6	1	.282	.350	.409	.759	99.7	98.6	.340	0.8
1999	139	520	472	56	132	26	5	14	72	30	79	17	6	.280	.330	.445	.775	90.9	92.5	.340	1.3
2000	84	331	291	44	83	18	0	12	43	24	52	6	1	.285	.356	.471	.826	106.1	105.6	.362	1.5
2001	103	427	381	54	112	26	2	14	62	29	71	6	3	.294	.351	.483	.834	110.6	109.5	.361	2.2
2002	162	685	606	83	146	38	2	26	87	56	111	32	8	.241	.314	.439	.753	93.8	94.7	.333	2.1
2003	160	654	592	92	158	32	3	24	96	46	104	23	3	.267	.327	.453	.780	103.6	103.1	.342	2.8
2005	143	565	511	61	124	19	1	16	60	35	92	9	3	.243	.299	.378	.677	80.1	81.7	.297	0.8
2006	104	392	354	50	89	19	1	7	46	27	62	5	4	.251	.314	.370	.684	78.2	77.5	.306	0.4
2007	69	228	189	27	54	11	0	5	28	21	41	2	0	.286	.388	.423	.811	112.6	111.3	.360	0.7
2008	104	255	232	23	56	13	1	6	28	18	52	0	1	.241	.299	.384	.683	77.1	79.1	.304	-0.3
2009	10	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.071	.000	.071	-94.1	-78.7	.053	-0.3

Career totals

1,152

4,329

3,871

519

1,017

216

126

RBI

555

303

707

107

.2627

OBP

.3263

SLG

.4250

OPS

.7513

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
2002-08-09	SD @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	5	13
2003-05-08	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	3	12
1999-09-07	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	3	10
2001-07-16	DET @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	2	9
2002-06-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	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× 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.