MLB / Players

Alex Gordon

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 220 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1984 · Lincoln, NE, USA

MLB debutApril 2, 2007

Final gameSeptember 27, 2020

Seasons14 (2007–2020)

Kansas City Royals 2007–2020

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified batters

150

61.2

633

64.2

556

61.9

35.1

148

51.5

56.7

11.9

11.2

RBI

48.5

100

73.9

32.1

.266

OBP

.345

54.5

SLG

.396

7.5

OPS

.741

17.9

wRC+

95.2

21.6

OPS+

94.6

20.9

wOBA

.319

19.4

sWAR

0.7

10.4

of 135 qualified 2019 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.7

46.8

OPS+

102.1

45.8

sWAR

20.6

93.8

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
2007	151	600	543	60	134	36	4	15	60	41	137	14	4	.247	.314	.411	.725	87.4	88.4	.321	1.1
2008	134	571	493	72	128	35	1	16	59	66	120	9	2	.260	.351	.432	.783	107.3	106.5	.348	2.7
2009	49	189	164	28	38	6	0	6	22	21	43	5	0	.232	.324	.378	.703	86.8	84.3	.317	0.4
2010	74	281	242	34	52	10	0	8	20	34	62	1	5	.215	.315	.355	.671	84.6	82.4	.307	0.1
2011	151	688	611	101	185	45	4	23	87	67	139	17	8	.303	.376	.502	.879	142.7	139.3	.385	5.2
2012	161	721	642	93	189	51	5	14	72	73	140	10	5	.294	.368	.455	.822	127.4	124.2	.361	4.1
2013	156	700	633	90	168	27	6	20	81	52	141	11	3	.265	.327	.422	.749	103.1	104.5	.327	1.9
2014	156	643	563	87	150	34	1	19	74	65	126	12	3	.266	.351	.432	.783	122.6	120.1	.350	3.2
2015	104	422	354	40	96	18	0	13	48	49	92	2	5	.271	.377	.432	.809	121.8	120.4	.352	2.1
2016	128	506	445	62	98	16	2	17	40	52	148	8	1	.220	.312	.380	.692	86.5	85.8	.304	0.3
2017	148	541	476	52	99	20	2	9	45	45	126	7	4	.208	.293	.315	.608	62.2	62.6	.271	-1.3
2018	141	568	506	56	124	24	0	13	54	50	124	12	2	.245	.324	.370	.694	90.3	89.9	.306	0.6
2019	150	633	556	77	148	31	1	13	76	51	100	5	3	.266	.345	.396	.741	95.2	94.6	.319	0.7
2020	50	184	163	15	34	4	0	4	11	18	37	0	0	.209	.299	.307	.606	67.4	64.9	.276	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2019	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	5	2	0	1	2.3	19.29	4.286	0.00	11.40	242.0	24.4	0.7

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

1,753

459th-most career G

7,247

405th-most career PA

6,391

420th-most career AB

867

1,643

357

299th-most career 2B

190

427th-most career HR

RBI

749

684

401st-most career BB

1,535

74th-most career SO

113

.2571

OBP

.3382

SLG

.4103

OPS

.7485

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

19.286

WHIP

4.2857

K/9

0.00

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	TB
2014-05-18	BAL @ KC Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	6	10
2016-08-20	MIN @ KC Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	2	10
2019-04-12	CLE @ KC Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	3	9
2011-06-21	AZ @ KC Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	2	9
2007-07-26	NYY @ KC Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	1	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2019-08-26	ATH @ KC Gameday	1.1	5	3	3	1	0	1
2019-08-30	BAL @ KC Gameday	1.0	3	2	2	1	0	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

8× Gold Glove3× 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.