Carlos Baerga

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornNovember 4, 1968 · Santurce, P.R.

MLB debutApril 14, 1990

Final gameSeptember 30, 2005

Seasons14 (1990–2005)

Cleveland Indians 1990–1996; New York Mets 1996–1998; Cleveland Indians 1999; San Diego Padres 1999; Boston Red Sox 2002; Arizona Diamondbacks 2003–2004; Washington Nationals 2005

Percentile snapshot

1998 season — qualified batters

147

37.3

551

15.2

511

24.7

1.3

136

15.2

25.3

8.2

11.4

RBI

13.9

3.2

91.1

86.7

.266

20.9

OBP

.303

6.3

SLG

.364

9.5

OPS

.667

3.8

wRC+

71.6

4.4

OPS+

76.7

6.3

wOBA

.294

2.5

sWAR

0.1

5.1

of 159 qualified 1998 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.5

38.7

OPS+

100.9

43.4

sWAR

20.2

93.7

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
1990	108	338	312	46	81	17	2	7	47	16	57	0	2	.260	.300	.394	.694	89.6	93.4	.312	1.1
1991	158	654	593	80	171	28	2	11	69	48	74	3	2	.288	.346	.398	.744	105.8	105.2	.339	3.0
1992	161	716	657	92	205	32	1	20	105	35	76	10	2	.312	.354	.455	.809	125.2	127.8	.363	4.9
1993	154	680	624	105	200	28	6	21	114	34	68	15	4	.321	.355	.486	.840	121.2	124.2	.370	4.3
1994	103	469	442	81	139	32	2	19	80	10	45	8	2	.314	.333	.525	.858	117.5	121.0	.368	2.7
1995	135	600	557	87	175	28	2	15	90	35	31	11	2	.314	.355	.452	.807	107.6	109.4	.356	2.8
1996	126	544	507	59	129	28	0	12	66	21	27	1	1	.254	.293	.381	.674	71.0	71.8	.299	-0.2
1997	133	498	467	53	131	25	1	9	52	20	54	2	6	.281	.311	.396	.707	85.1	87.3	.315	0.9
1998	147	551	511	46	136	27	1	7	53	24	55	0	1	.266	.303	.364	.667	71.6	76.7	.294	0.1
1999	55	152	137	10	33	1	0	3	10	10	24	2	1	.241	.300	.314	.614	57.5	59.3	.279	-0.3
2002	73	194	182	17	52	11	0	2	19	7	20	6	0	.286	.316	.379	.695	80.2	82.5	.305	-0.1
2003	105	231	207	31	71	13	0	4	39	18	20	1	1	.343	.396	.464	.859	121.9	118.2	.381	1.2
2004	79	94	85	6	20	2	0	2	11	6	12	0	0	.235	.309	.329	.638	63.4	62.5	.293	-0.2
2005	93	174	158	18	40	7	0	2	19	7	17	0	0	.253	.318	.335	.653	77.4	75.6	.300	0.0

Career totals

1,630

5,895

5,439

731

1,583

279

134

RBI

774

291

580

.2910

381st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3317

SLG

.4225

OPS

.7542

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
1993-06-17	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	5	12
1993-04-08	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	3	11
2003-04-17	COL @ AZ Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	7	10
1995-05-21	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	3	10
1990-09-20	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	3	1	0	3	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× Silver Slugger3× 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.