MLB / Players

Carlos Guillen

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 215 lb

BornSeptember 30, 1975 · Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1998

Final gameSeptember 18, 2011

Seasons14 (1998–2011)

Seattle Mariners 1998–2003; Detroit Tigers 2004–2011

Percentile snapshot

2007 season — qualified batters

151

60.2

630

55.9

564

61.5

57.8

167

68.3

59.6

94.4

57.8

RBI

102

82.6

49.7

54.7

67.7

6.8

.296

70.2

OBP

.357

55.3

SLG

.502

78.3

OPS

.859

75.2

wRC+

119.3

64.6

OPS+

122.5

73.3

wOBA

.370

65.8

sWAR

3.9

77.6

of 162 qualified 2007 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.4

64.6

OPS+

110.8

63.6

sWAR

28.2

96.2

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
1998	10	42	39	9	13	1	1	0	5	3	9	2	0	.333	.381	.410	.791	109.9	106.2	.357	0.2
1999	5	21	19	2	3	0	0	1	3	1	6	0	0	.158	.200	.316	.516	24.7	30.4	.227	-0.1
2000	90	328	288	45	74	15	2	7	42	28	53	1	3	.257	.324	.396	.720	86.3	85.4	.321	0.7
2001	140	523	456	72	118	21	4	5	53	53	89	4	1	.259	.333	.355	.689	91.8	88.7	.312	1.9
2002	134	528	475	73	124	24	6	9	56	46	91	4	5	.261	.326	.394	.719	95.5	95.8	.317	2.1
2003	109	451	388	63	107	19	3	7	52	52	64	4	4	.276	.359	.394	.753	106.6	103.9	.337	2.3
2004	136	583	522	97	166	37	10	20	97	52	87	12	5	.318	.379	.542	.921	140.4	140.4	.396	5.5
2005	87	361	334	48	107	15	4	5	23	24	45	2	3	.320	.368	.434	.803	116.2	115.3	.353	2.2
2006	153	622	543	100	174	41	5	19	85	71	87	20	9	.320	.400	.519	.920	136.8	136.3	.396	5.6
2007	151	630	564	86	167	35	9	21	102	55	93	13	8	.296	.357	.502	.859	119.3	122.5	.370	3.9
2008	113	489	420	68	120	29	2	10	54	60	67	9	3	.286	.376	.436	.811	116.6	113.6	.364	2.6
2009	81	322	277	36	67	10	3	11	41	39	56	1	3	.242	.339	.419	.757	98.1	97.4	.335	0.4
2010	68	275	253	26	69	17	1	6	34	21	41	1	2	.273	.327	.419	.746	101.1	102.0	.330	0.9
2011	28	102	95	8	22	2	1	3	13	5	16	1	1	.232	.265	.368	.633	66.8	71.2	.277	0.0

Career totals

1,305

5,277

4,673

733

1,331

266

124

RBI

660

510

804

.2848

OBP

.3549

SLG

.4432

OPS

.7981

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
2009-08-31	TB @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	4	10
2006-08-01	DET @ TB Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	2	10
2006-04-29	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	5	10
2009-09-23	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4	10
2004-07-24	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	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× 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.