Alex Avila

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 228 lb

BornJanuary 29, 1987 · Hialeah, FL, USA

MLB debutAugust 6, 2009

Final gameOctober 3, 2021

Seasons13 (2009–2021)

Detroit Tigers 2009–2015; Chicago White Sox 2016; Chicago Cubs 2017; Detroit Tigers 2017; Arizona Diamondbacks 2018–2019; Minnesota Twins 2020; Washington Nationals 2021

Percentile snapshot

2011 season — qualified batters

141

34.7

551

23.6

464

8.3

137

40.3

72.2

64.6

51.4

RBI

62.5

82.6

131

15.3

25.7

74.3

.295

OBP

.389

93.8

SLG

.506

81.9

OPS

.895

87.5

wRC+

142.9

88.2

OPS+

142.9

88.9

wOBA

.387

87.5

sWAR

5.8

93.8

of 145 qualified 2011 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

105.3

52.5

OPS+

101.5

44.9

sWAR

22.4

94.5

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
2009	29	72	61	9	17	4	0	5	14	10	18	0	0	.279	.375	.590	.965	148.0	147.9	.410	0.9
2010	104	333	294	28	67	12	0	7	31	36	71	2	2	.228	.316	.340	.656	82.5	79.4	.304	1.3
2011	141	551	464	63	137	33	4	19	82	73	131	3	1	.295	.389	.506	.895	142.9	142.9	.387	5.8
2012	116	434	367	42	89	21	2	9	48	61	104	2	0	.243	.352	.384	.736	104.6	100.2	.331	2.8
2013	102	379	330	39	75	14	1	11	47	44	112	0	0	.227	.317	.376	.693	91.7	89.3	.313	1.8
2014	124	457	390	44	85	22	0	11	47	61	151	0	3	.218	.327	.359	.686	99.5	94.7	.316	2.7
2015	67	219	178	21	34	5	0	4	13	40	66	0	1	.191	.339	.287	.626	87.1	77.0	.298	0.6
2016	57	209	169	19	36	6	0	7	11	38	78	0	0	.213	.359	.373	.732	109.4	101.8	.332	1.4
2017	112	376	311	41	82	13	1	14	49	62	120	0	1	.264	.387	.447	.834	125.4	120.4	.366	2.9
2018	80	234	194	13	32	6	0	7	20	37	90	0	0	.165	.299	.304	.603	64.0	62.2	.279	0.4
2019	63	201	164	22	34	8	0	9	24	36	68	1	0	.207	.353	.421	.774	97.0	100.2	.328	1.0
2020	23	62	49	6	9	2	0	1	2	11	22	0	0	.184	.355	.286	.641	93.1	81.3	.307	0.3
2021	34	111	89	5	17	9	1	1	9	19	37	0	0	.191	.345	.348	.694	96.8	91.0	.318	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2018	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	0.00	.500	0.00	3.12	75.4	—	0.4
2019	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	2.0	4.50	1.500	4.50	3.67	82.7	98.7	1.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,052

3,638

3,060

352

714

155

105

RBI

397

528

1,068

338th-most career SO

.2333

OBP

.3477

SLG

.3928

OPS

.7405

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

2.250

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

2.25

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2011-05-24	TB @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	0	8
2013-09-15	KC @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	0	8
2016-06-10	KC @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	0	8
2010-05-05	DET @ MIN Gameday	3	2	2	2	2	1	8
2011-05-02	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	2	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
2019-08-17	SF @ AZ Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	0	1
2018-07-11	AZ @ COL Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	0	0
2019-08-11	AZ @ LAD Gameday	1.0	2	1	1	1	0

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 Slugger1× 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.