MLB / Players

Aaron Rowand

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 210 lb

BornAugust 29, 1977 · Portland, OR, USA

MLB debutJune 16, 2001

Final gameAugust 30, 2011

Seasons11 (2001–2011)

Chicago White Sox 2001–2005; Philadelphia Phillies 2006–2007; San Francisco Giants 2008–2011

Percentile snapshot

2009 season — qualified batters

144

38.3

546

20.1

499

25.3

8.4

130

19.5

45.5

40.3

RBI

27.3

6.5

125

16.9

30.5

72.1

.261

OBP

.319

16.2

SLG

.419

29.2

OPS

.738

22.7

wRC+

92.1

20.8

OPS+

92.8

19.5

wOBA

.328

22.7

sWAR

1.5

18.8

of 155 qualified 2009 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.5

40.6

OPS+

99.2

40.1

sWAR

16.3

91.8

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
2001	63	148	123	21	36	5	0	4	20	15	28	5	1	.293	.385	.431	.816	117.5	112.1	.366	0.6
2002	126	331	302	41	78	16	2	7	29	12	54	0	1	.258	.298	.394	.692	79.2	81.1	.303	0.2
2003	93	170	157	22	45	8	0	6	24	7	21	0	0	.287	.327	.452	.780	106.9	106.7	.340	0.6
2004	140	534	487	94	151	38	2	24	69	30	91	17	5	.310	.361	.544	.905	130.8	129.7	.389	3.9
2005	157	640	578	77	156	30	5	13	69	32	116	16	5	.270	.329	.407	.736	92.1	92.1	.324	1.8
2006	109	445	405	59	106	24	3	12	47	18	76	10	4	.262	.321	.425	.745	86.4	86.8	.327	0.9
2007	161	684	612	105	189	45	0	27	89	47	119	6	3	.309	.374	.515	.889	128.3	125.5	.387	4.9
2008	152	611	549	57	149	37	0	13	70	44	126	2	4	.271	.339	.410	.749	93.9	94.9	.332	1.7
2009	144	546	499	61	130	30	2	15	64	30	125	4	1	.261	.319	.419	.738	92.1	92.8	.328	1.5
2010	105	357	331	42	76	12	2	11	34	16	74	5	3	.230	.281	.378	.659	75.3	79.1	.291	0.2
2011	108	351	331	34	77	22	2	4	21	10	84	2	3	.233	.274	.347	.621	73.5	76.6	.279	-0.2

Career totals

1,358

4,817

4,374

613

1,193

267

136

RBI

536

261

914

492nd-most career SO

.2727

OBP

.3301

SLG

.4353

OPS

.7654

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
2007-07-17	PHI @ LAD Gameday	6	3	5	3	1	2	11
2007-07-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	3	1	1	10
2004-08-13	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	9
2007-09-17	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3	9
2004-05-23	CWS @ MIN Gameday	7	4	4	1	1	3	8

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× Gold Glove1× 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.