MLB / Players

Cal Ripken

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 24, 1960 · Havre de Grace, MD, USA

MLB debutAugust 10, 1981

Final gameOctober 6, 2001

Seasons21 (1981–2001)

Baltimore Orioles 1981–2001

Percentile snapshot

2001 season — qualified batters

128

5.8

516

10.3

477

17.9

1.9

114

6.4

0.6

33.3

RBI

38.5

4.5

71.2

.239

4.5

OBP

.276

SLG

.361

8.3

OPS

.637

0.6

wRC+

69.7

4.5

OPS+

72.4

4.5

wOBA

.279

0.6

sWAR

-0.2

2.6

of 157 qualified 2001 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.3

64.4

OPS+

112.8

sWAR

74.8

99.7

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
1981	23	40	39	1	5	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	0	.128	.150	.128	.278	-31.0	-18.4	.135	-0.4
1982	160	655	598	90	158	32	5	28	93	46	95	3	3	.264	.317	.475	.792	114.2	115.8	.347	4.0
1983	162	726	663	121	211	47	2	27	102	58	97	0	4	.318	.371	.517	.888	147.3	145.2	.394	7.6
1984	162	716	641	103	195	37	7	27	86	71	89	2	1	.304	.374	.510	.884	149.0	145.8	.394	7.6
1985	161	718	642	116	181	32	5	26	110	67	68	2	3	.282	.347	.469	.816	124.8	124.0	.361	5.5
1986	162	707	627	98	177	35	1	25	81	70	60	4	2	.282	.355	.461	.816	121.7	121.5	.361	5.1
1987	162	717	624	97	157	28	3	27	98	81	77	3	5	.252	.333	.436	.769	104.7	103.8	.339	3.7
1988	161	689	575	87	152	25	1	23	81	102	69	2	2	.264	.372	.431	.803	128.9	126.7	.364	5.6
1989	162	712	646	80	166	30	0	21	93	57	72	3	2	.257	.317	.401	.718	103.0	104.2	.327	3.6
1990	161	695	600	78	150	28	4	21	84	82	66	3	1	.250	.341	.415	.756	109.4	113.6	.338	4.0
1991	162	717	650	99	210	46	5	34	114	53	46	6	1	.323	.374	.566	.940	155.0	159.7	.407	8.0
1992	162	715	637	73	160	29	1	14	72	64	50	4	3	.251	.323	.366	.689	89.6	93.3	.313	2.4
1993	162	718	641	87	165	26	3	24	90	65	58	1	4	.257	.329	.420	.748	92.5	98.2	.329	2.6
1994	112	484	444	71	140	19	3	13	75	32	41	1	0	.315	.364	.459	.823	108.3	108.2	.363	2.6
1995	144	613	550	71	144	33	2	17	88	52	59	0	1	.262	.324	.422	.745	90.2	93.1	.328	2.0
1996	163	707	640	94	178	40	1	26	102	59	78	1	2	.278	.341	.466	.807	103.2	103.6	.353	3.3
1997	162	686	615	79	166	30	0	17	84	56	73	1	0	.270	.331	.402	.733	93.4	93.9	.326	2.0
1998	161	659	601	65	163	27	1	14	61	51	68	0	2	.271	.331	.389	.721	91.1	89.5	.323	1.8
1999	86	354	332	51	113	27	0	18	57	13	31	0	1	.340	.368	.584	.952	139.8	142.9	.405	3.0
2000	83	339	309	43	79	16	0	15	56	23	37	0	0	.256	.310	.453	.763	94.7	96.6	.331	0.9
2001	128	516	477	43	114	16	0	14	68	26	63	0	2	.239	.276	.361	.637	69.7	72.4	.279	-0.2

Career totals

3,001

10th-most career G

12,883

7th-most career PA

11,551

4th-most career AB

1,647

36th-most career R

3,184

16th-most career H

603

17th-most career 2B

431

51st-most career HR

RBI

1,695

29th-most career RBI

1,129

78th-most career BB

1,305

167th-most career SO

.2756

OBP

.3402

SLG

.4474

OPS

.7876

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
1999-06-13	BAL @ ATL Gameday	6	5	6	1	0	2	6	13
1983-09-03	BAL @ MIN Gameday	6	3	5	2	0	2	4	13
1991-04-13	BAL @ TEX Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	2	7	12
1996-05-28	BAL @ SEA Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	8	12
1985-09-16	BAL @ DET Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	2	3	11

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

Hall of Fame, 2007 (BBWAA)

8× Silver Slugger2× Most Valuable Player2× All-Star Game MVP2× Gold Glove1× Rookie of the Year19× 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.