Alex Gonzalez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 210 lb

BornFebruary 15, 1977 · Cagua, Aragua, Venezuela

MLB debutAugust 25, 1998

Final gameApril 17, 2014

Seasons16 (1998–2014)

Florida Marlins 1998–2005; Boston Red Sox 2006; Cincinnati Reds 2007; Boston Red Sox 2009; Cincinnati Reds 2009; Atlanta Braves 2010; Toronto Blue Jays 2010; Atlanta Braves 2011; Milwaukee Brewers 2012–2013; Detroit Tigers 2014

Percentile snapshot

2011 season — qualified batters

149

54.2

593

50.7

564

18.1

136

36.1

39.6

17.4

38.2

RBI

23.6

2.8

126

18.8

13.9

92.4

.241

12.5

OBP

.270

2.1

SLG

.372

OPS

.642

4.9

wRC+

70.7

3.5

OPS+

75.0

3.5

wOBA

.286

4.9

sWAR

0.7

13.9

of 145 qualified 2011 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

74.6

5.5

OPS+

78.7

8.2

sWAR

8.5

85.1

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	25	98	86	11	13	2	0	3	7	9	30	0	0	.151	.240	.279	.519	38.4	38.7	.242	-0.3
1999	136	591	560	81	155	28	8	14	59	15	113	3	5	.277	.308	.430	.739	86.6	88.4	.324	1.6
2000	109	407	385	35	77	17	4	7	42	13	77	7	1	.200	.229	.319	.548	34.7	39.6	.242	-1.5
2001	145	561	515	57	129	36	1	9	48	30	107	2	2	.250	.303	.377	.680	74.9	77.5	.297	0.8
2002	42	172	151	15	34	7	1	2	18	12	32	3	1	.225	.296	.325	.620	65.4	66.8	.284	0.0
2003	150	582	528	52	135	33	6	18	77	33	106	0	4	.256	.313	.443	.756	91.8	98.5	.323	2.1
2004	159	599	561	67	130	30	3	23	79	27	126	3	1	.232	.270	.419	.689	67.4	75.3	.292	0.3
2005	130	478	435	45	115	30	0	5	45	31	81	5	3	.264	.319	.368	.686	78.0	83.7	.301	0.9
2006	111	429	388	48	99	24	2	9	50	22	67	1	0	.255	.299	.397	.695	73.0	76.0	.303	0.6
2007	110	430	393	55	107	27	1	16	55	24	75	0	1	.272	.325	.468	.793	98.1	98.4	.345	1.8
2009	112	429	391	42	93	22	0	8	41	20	65	2	1	.238	.279	.355	.635	58.5	64.8	.279	-0.2
2010	157	640	595	74	149	42	3	23	88	31	118	1	2	.250	.294	.447	.741	95.6	98.0	.323	2.6
2011	149	593	564	59	136	27	1	15	56	22	126	2	0	.241	.270	.372	.642	70.7	75.0	.286	0.7
2012	24	89	81	8	21	4	0	4	15	6	15	1	1	.259	.326	.457	.783	108.6	105.9	.345	0.5
2013	41	118	113	14	20	3	0	1	8	3	26	0	0	.177	.203	.230	.433	4.4	18.4	.197	-1.2
2014	9	32	30	4	5	0	1	0	2	2	4	0	0	.167	.219	.233	.452	23.5	28.6	.211	-0.1

Career totals

1,609

6,248

5,776

667

1,418

332

373rd-most career 2B

157

RBI

690

300

1,168

256th-most career SO

.2455

OBP

.2899

SLG

.3953

OPS

.6852

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2007-04-24	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	5	0	11
2001-07-13	NYY @ MIA Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
2003-04-04	MIA @ ATL Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	3	1	9
2004-09-24	MIA @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
2003-04-05	MIA @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	5	1	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× 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.