Alex Rios

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 210 lb

BornFebruary 18, 1981 · Coffee, AL, USA

MLB debutMay 27, 2004

Final gameOctober 4, 2015

Seasons12 (2004–2015)

Toronto Blue Jays 2004–2008; Chicago White Sox 2009; Toronto Blue Jays 2009; Chicago White Sox 2010–2013; Texas Rangers 2013–2014; Kansas City Royals 2015

Percentile snapshot

2014 season — qualified batters

131

10.3

521

10.3

492

20.5

13.7

138

39.7

55.5

92.5

5.5

RBI

27.4

3.4

62.3

77.4

6.2

.280

67.1

OBP

.311

SLG

.398

39.7

OPS

.709

32.2

wRC+

95.6

24.7

OPS+

98.1

wOBA

.313

sWAR

0.7

of 147 qualified 2014 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.9

39.2

OPS+

100.0

41.7

sWAR

17.2

92.3

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
2004	111	460	426	55	122	24	7	1	28	31	84	15	3	.286	.338	.383	.720	86.5	84.7	.323	0.3
2005	146	519	481	71	126	23	6	10	59	28	101	14	9	.262	.306	.397	.703	81.7	83.1	.308	-0.1
2006	128	498	450	68	136	33	6	17	82	35	89	15	6	.302	.349	.516	.865	118.6	119.7	.370	2.3
2007	161	711	643	114	191	43	7	24	85	55	103	17	4	.297	.354	.498	.852	122.2	122.7	.372	3.7
2008	155	686	635	91	185	47	8	15	79	44	112	32	8	.291	.337	.461	.798	111.9	112.3	.350	3.0
2009	149	633	582	63	144	31	2	17	71	37	107	24	5	.247	.296	.395	.691	77.4	80.3	.303	-0.1
2010	147	617	567	89	161	29	3	21	88	38	93	34	14	.284	.334	.457	.791	110.8	111.7	.347	3.2
2011	145	570	537	64	122	22	2	13	44	27	68	11	6	.227	.265	.348	.613	57.6	63.6	.269	-0.7
2012	157	640	605	93	184	37	8	25	91	26	92	23	6	.304	.334	.516	.850	126.6	126.6	.362	3.5
2013	156	661	616	83	171	33	4	18	81	41	108	42	7	.278	.324	.432	.756	104.4	103.9	.332	1.8
2014	131	521	492	54	138	30	8	4	54	23	93	17	9	.280	.311	.398	.709	95.6	98.1	.313	0.7
2015	105	411	385	40	98	22	2	4	32	15	67	9	0	.255	.287	.353	.640	70.5	73.7	.280	-0.6

Career totals

1,691

6,927

480th-most career PA

6,419

418th-most career AB

885

1,778

422nd-most career H

374

259th-most career 2B

493rd-most career 3B

169

RBI

794

400

1,117

297th-most career SO

253

236th-most career SB

.2770

OBP

.3210

SLG

.4339

OPS

.7549

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
2013-09-23	HOU @ TEX Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	1	4	0	10
2012-06-15	CWS @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
2010-08-30	CWS @ CLE Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	1	4	1	9
2008-08-17	TOR @ BOS Gameday	6	3	5	4	0	0	2	0	9
2012-08-03	LAA @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	4	0	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

2× 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.