MLB / Players

Carlos Gonzalez

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 220 lb

BornOctober 17, 1985 · Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela

MLB debutMay 30, 2008

Final gameJune 27, 2019

Seasons12 (2008–2019)

Oakland Athletics 2008; Colorado Rockies 2009–2018; Chicago Cubs 2019; Cleveland Indians 2019

Percentile snapshot

2017 season — qualified batters

136

17.5

534

14.7

470

12.6

30.1

123

14.7

73.4

18.2

RBI

14.7

53.1

119

43.4

26.6

.262

38.5

OBP

.339

50.3

SLG

.423

29.4

OPS

.762

33.6

wRC+

86.6

13.3

OPS+

87.3

12.6

wOBA

.332

37.1

sWAR

0.2

9.1

of 144 qualified 2017 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.7

65.1

OPS+

111.6

65.6

sWAR

20.7

93.9

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
2008	85	316	302	31	73	22	1	4	26	13	81	4	1	.242	.273	.361	.634	67.0	70.2	.281	-0.3
2009	89	317	278	53	79	14	7	13	29	28	70	16	4	.284	.353	.525	.878	119.1	118.8	.380	1.5
2010	145	636	587	111	197	34	9	34	117	40	135	26	8	.336	.376	.598	.974	146.4	143.7	.417	5.3
2011	127	542	481	92	142	27	3	26	92	48	105	20	5	.295	.363	.526	.889	126.0	124.3	.386	3.0
2012	135	579	518	89	157	31	5	22	85	56	115	20	5	.303	.371	.510	.881	121.9	120.7	.379	2.8
2013	110	436	391	72	118	23	6	26	70	41	118	21	3	.302	.367	.591	.958	149.0	141.6	.412	3.5
2014	70	281	260	35	62	15	1	11	38	19	70	3	0	.238	.292	.431	.723	82.5	86.5	.317	0.0
2015	153	608	554	87	150	25	2	40	97	46	133	2	0	.271	.325	.540	.864	114.7	115.0	.367	2.3
2016	150	632	584	87	174	42	2	25	100	46	129	2	2	.298	.350	.505	.855	110.9	110.2	.367	2.2
2017	136	534	470	72	123	34	0	14	57	56	119	3	0	.262	.339	.423	.762	86.6	87.3	.332	0.2
2018	132	504	463	71	128	32	4	16	64	37	113	5	2	.276	.329	.467	.796	99.1	100.3	.344	1.0
2019	45	166	145	21	29	3	0	3	10	18	52	0	3	.200	.289	.283	.572	52.2	52.3	.256	-0.7

Career totals

1,377

5,551

5,033

821

1,432

302

481st-most career 2B

234

298th-most career HR

RBI

785

448

1,240

200th-most career SO

122

.2845

OBP

.3431

SLG

.4999

122nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8430

228th-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	TB
2012-05-30	HOU @ COL Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	4	13
2013-05-14	COL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	5	1	2	3	12
2013-06-05	COL @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	6	12
2015-09-03	SF @ COL Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	4	11
2015-07-27	COL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	4	10

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

3× Gold Glove2× 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.