Craig Counsell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 21, 1970 · South Bend, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1995

Final gameSeptember 28, 2011

Seasons16 (1995–2011)

Colorado Rockies 1995; Colorado Rockies 1997; Florida Marlins 1997–1999; Los Angeles Dodgers 1999; Arizona Diamondbacks 2000–2003; Milwaukee Brewers 2004; Arizona Diamondbacks 2005–2006; Milwaukee Brewers 2007–2011

Percentile snapshot

2005 season — qualified batters

150

52.7

670

578

64.2

60.1

148

39.9

60.1

64.9

14.2

RBI

83.8

81.1

91.2

14.2

.256

15.5

OBP

.350

53.4

SLG

.375

11.5

OPS

.726

18.9

wRC+

90.8

18.9

OPS+

87.9

15.5

wOBA

.331

31.1

sWAR

1.7

29.1

of 149 qualified 2005 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.5

11.9

OPS+

79.3

8.7

sWAR

9.3

86.1

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
1995	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	99.3	33.8	.371	0.0
1997	52	189	164	20	49	9	2	1	16	18	17	1	1	.299	.376	.396	.773	109.2	106.8	.351	0.9
1998	107	399	335	43	84	19	5	4	40	51	47	3	0	.251	.355	.373	.729	97.0	96.0	.330	1.3
1999	87	195	174	24	38	7	0	0	11	14	24	1	0	.218	.274	.259	.532	39.2	39.6	.249	-0.8
2000	67	176	152	23	48	8	1	2	11	20	18	3	3	.316	.400	.421	.821	113.1	106.9	.373	1.0
2001	141	533	458	76	126	22	3	4	38	61	76	6	8	.275	.359	.362	.721	87.0	84.0	.327	1.3
2002	112	489	436	63	123	22	1	2	51	45	52	7	5	.282	.348	.351	.699	81.2	79.9	.322	0.8
2003	89	351	303	40	71	6	3	3	21	41	32	11	4	.234	.328	.304	.631	65.8	62.5	.297	-0.1
2004	140	545	473	59	114	19	5	2	23	59	88	17	4	.241	.330	.315	.645	66.9	67.9	.293	0.2
2005	150	670	578	85	148	34	4	9	42	78	69	26	7	.256	.350	.375	.726	90.8	87.9	.331	1.7
2006	105	415	372	56	95	14	4	4	30	31	47	15	8	.255	.327	.347	.674	72.5	70.3	.308	0.4
2007	122	334	282	31	62	12	2	3	24	41	47	4	2	.220	.323	.309	.632	66.6	65.6	.292	0.0
2008	110	302	248	31	56	14	1	1	14	46	42	3	1	.226	.355	.302	.658	85.5	77.4	.315	0.7
2009	130	459	404	61	115	22	8	4	39	42	54	3	4	.285	.357	.408	.766	108.0	104.4	.348	2.3
2010	102	230	204	16	51	8	0	2	21	21	29	1	1	.250	.322	.319	.640	77.6	74.9	.298	0.4
2011	107	187	157	19	28	2	1	1	9	20	21	2	1	.178	.280	.223	.503	36.9	39.3	.242	-0.6

Career totals

1,624

5,476

4,741

647

1,208

218

RBI

390

589

663

103

.2548

OBP

.3416

SLG

.3442

OPS

.6858

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	BB	TB
2000-06-04	AZ @ TEX Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	1	8
2005-05-20	AZ @ DET Gameday	5	0	4	3	0	2	0	7
2002-05-26	LAD @ AZ Gameday	6	2	5	1	0	2	0	6
2009-05-06	MIL @ CIN Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	1	0	6
1998-07-24	MIA @ PHI Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	3	0	6

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

1× NLCS MVP

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.