Ben Zobrist

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornMay 26, 1981 · Eureka, IL, USA

MLB debutAugust 1, 2006

Final gameSeptember 29, 2019

Seasons14 (2006–2019)

Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2006–2007; Tampa Bay Rays 2008–2014; Kansas City Royals 2015; Oakland Athletics 2015; Chicago Cubs 2016–2019

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified batters

139

25.2

520

7.2

455

2.2

29.5

139

47.5

42.4

50.4

7.2

RBI

22.3

54.7

97.8

28.1

27.3

.305

92.1

OBP

.378

90.6

SLG

.440

51.1

OPS

.817

66.2

wRC+

122.9

65.5

OPS+

119.2

59.7

wOBA

.362

74.8

sWAR

2.7

49.6

of 140 qualified 2018 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.6

74.1

OPS+

114.8

71.6

sWAR

36.3

97.5

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
2006	52	198	183	10	41	6	2	2	18	10	26	2	3	.224	.260	.311	.572	43.4	48.5	.252	-0.5
2007	31	105	97	8	15	2	0	1	9	3	21	2	0	.155	.184	.206	.391	-2.5	4.0	.178	-0.8
2008	62	227	198	32	50	10	2	12	30	25	37	3	0	.253	.339	.505	.844	122.8	123.6	.367	1.5
2009	152	599	501	91	149	28	7	27	91	91	104	17	6	.297	.405	.543	.948	152.5	151.1	.410	5.8
2010	151	655	541	77	129	28	2	10	75	92	107	24	3	.238	.346	.353	.699	101.4	97.1	.323	1.8
2011	156	674	588	99	158	46	6	20	91	77	128	19	6	.269	.353	.469	.822	133.4	131.9	.362	5.1
2012	157	668	560	88	151	39	7	20	74	97	103	14	9	.270	.377	.471	.848	139.3	138.3	.369	5.5
2013	157	698	612	77	168	36	3	12	71	72	91	11	3	.275	.354	.402	.756	114.8	112.4	.338	3.8
2014	146	654	570	83	155	34	3	10	52	75	84	10	5	.272	.354	.395	.749	117.3	114.3	.339	3.6
2015	126	535	467	76	129	36	3	13	56	62	56	3	4	.276	.359	.450	.809	124.2	122.0	.352	3.3
2016	147	631	523	94	142	31	3	18	76	96	82	6	4	.272	.386	.446	.831	126.4	122.2	.368	4.0
2017	128	496	435	58	101	20	3	12	50	54	71	2	2	.232	.318	.375	.693	80.8	80.0	.307	0.2
2018	139	520	455	67	139	28	3	9	58	55	60	3	4	.305	.378	.440	.817	122.9	119.2	.362	2.7
2019	47	176	150	24	39	5	0	1	17	23	24	0	0	.260	.358	.313	.671	85.7	79.9	.307	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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1.0	0.00	2.000	9.00	7.17	165.7	—	0.3

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

1,651

6,836

5,880

884

1,566

349

318th-most career 2B

167

RBI

768

832

243rd-most career BB

994

397th-most career SO

116

.2663

OBP

.3567

SLG

.4259

OPS

.7826

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

9.00

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	BB	TB
2016-09-30	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	3	0	10
2015-08-01	KC @ TOR Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
2011-04-28	TB @ MIN Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	1	8	0	9
2011-06-11	TB @ BAL Gameday	6	4	4	3	1	0	1	0	9
2012-06-09	TB @ MIA Gameday	3	4	3	0	0	2	4	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2019-09-29	CHC @ STL Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	2	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× World Series MVP3× 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.