MLB / Players

Carlos Zambrano

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 275 lb

BornJune 1, 1981 · Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela

MLB debutAugust 20, 2001

Final gameSeptember 21, 2012

Seasons12 (2001–2012)

Chicago Cubs 2001–2011; Miami Marlins 2012

Percentile snapshot

2009 season — qualified pitchers

6.5

9.1

7.8

85.7

32.5

SHO

59.7

155

93.5

81.8

15.6

152

53.2

96.1

169.3

7.8

ERA

3.77

WHIP

1.376

23.4

K/9

8.08

72.7

FIP

3.57

76.6

FIP-

81.1

75.3

ERA+

116.6

59.7

sWAR

3.6

59.7

of 78 qualified 2009 pitchers (min 161 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

118.0

87.2

sWAR

39.1

97.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2001	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.4	-100.0	.000	-0.9
2002	32	32	30	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	15	0	.033	.033	.067	.100	-99.0	-74.0	.043	1.2
2003	32	80	75	9	18	5	0	2	6	1	26	0	.240	.250	.387	.637	57.3	63.1	.277	5.6
2004	31	82	70	8	16	1	0	1	5	3	29	0	.229	.257	.286	.542	35.1	40.8	.244	6.1
2005	34	84	80	8	24	6	2	1	6	0	25	0	.300	.300	.463	.763	92.4	94.5	.331	5.8
2006	37	80	73	9	11	0	0	6	11	1	27	1	.151	.160	.397	.557	21.8	34.5	.229	5.3
2007	37	86	81	9	20	2	0	2	5	0	29	0	.247	.247	.346	.593	40.2	48.5	.259	4.2
2008	38	85	83	9	28	4	1	4	14	0	24	0	.337	.337	.554	.892	126.5	124.0	.386	4.4
2009	35	72	69	7	15	5	0	4	11	1	28	0	.217	.225	.464	.689	62.7	72.3	.292	3.6
2010	42	57	52	5	12	0	0	1	6	2	15	0	.231	.255	.288	.543	37.1	44.5	.245	2.8
2011	25	48	44	8	14	2	0	2	5	2	14	0	.318	.348	.500	.848	132.9	128.8	.375	0.5
2012	35	36	34	3	6	0	0	1	2	0	8	0	.176	.176	.265	.441	4.2	18.0	.192	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2001	6	1	1	2	0	0	11	13	8	4	2	7.7	15.26	2.478	4.70	8.88	214.6	27.1	-0.9
2002	32	16	4	8	0	0	94	44	63	93	9	108.3	3.66	1.449	7.73	4.10	102.6	109.2	1.2
2003	32	32	13	11	3	1	188	74	94	168	9	214.0	3.11	1.318	7.07	3.41	79.5	137.9	5.6
2004	31	31	16	8	1	1	174	64	81	188	14	209.7	2.75	1.216	8.07	3.47	80.8	156.5	6.1
2005	33	33	14	6	2	0	170	81	86	202	21	223.3	3.26	1.146	8.14	3.67	84.8	132.6	5.8
2006	33	33	16	7	0	0	162	81	115	210	20	214.0	3.41	1.294	8.83	4.10	88.6	135.9	5.3
2007	34	34	18	13	1	0	187	95	101	177	23	216.3	3.95	1.331	7.36	4.52	97.9	116.8	4.2
2008	30	30	14	6	1	1	172	82	72	130	18	188.7	3.91	1.293	6.20	4.21	93.3	115.2	4.4
2009	28	28	9	7	1	1	155	71	78	152	10	169.3	3.77	1.376	8.08	3.57	81.1	116.6	3.6
2010	36	20	11	6	0	0	119	48	69	117	7	129.7	3.33	1.450	8.12	3.74	90.2	124.4	2.8
2011	24	24	9	7	0	0	154	78	56	101	19	145.7	4.82	1.442	6.24	4.56	117.5	80.5	0.5
2012	35	20	7	10	1	1	123	66	75	95	9	132.3	4.49	1.496	6.46	4.51	114.1	88.1	0.6

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

384

744

693

165

RBI

240

.2381

OBP

.2475

SLG

.3882

OPS

.6357

Pitching

G (P)

354

302

346th-most career GS

132

360th-most career W

SHO

1,959

473rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,637

183rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

898

165th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.662

WHIP

1.3308

K/9

7.52

136th-highest career K/9

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
2009-04-28	CHC @ AZ Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	1	2	7
2007-04-13	CIN @ CHC Gameday	2	2	2	1	0	1	1	6
2008-06-02	CHC @ SD Gameday	3	0	3	0	1	0	1	5
2006-06-27	MIL @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	5
2012-06-03	MIA @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2005-07-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	0	12	1
2007-06-22	CHC @ CWS Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	1	12	1
2004-05-02	CHC @ STL Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	3	12	0
2006-04-24	MIA @ CHC Gameday	7.0	6	3	3	3	12	1
2004-05-13	CHC @ LAD Gameday	8.0	2	1	0	2	11	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

3× 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.