Cristian Guzman

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 21, 1978 · Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, D.R.

MLB debutApril 6, 1999

Final gameSeptember 8, 2010

Seasons11 (1999–2010)

Minnesota Twins 1999–2004; Washington Nationals 2005; Washington Nationals 2007–2009; Texas Rangers 2010; Washington Nationals 2010

Percentile snapshot

2009 season — qualified batters

135

18.2

555

21.4

531

42.9

35.1

151

46.1

18.8

7.8

RBI

13.6

0.6

71.4

30.5

29.2

.284

55.8

OBP

.306

7.1

SLG

.390

13.6

OPS

.696

8.4

wRC+

80.5

6.5

OPS+

82.6

7.1

wOBA

.311

8.4

sWAR

1.1

10.4

of 155 qualified 2009 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

77.3

7.7

OPS+

79.5

8.9

sWAR

9.5

86.3

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
1999	131	456	420	47	95	12	3	1	26	22	90	9	7	.226	.267	.276	.543	34.2	37.6	.249	-1.6
2000	156	690	631	89	156	25	20	8	54	46	101	28	10	.247	.299	.388	.687	68.3	70.2	.304	0.3
2001	118	527	493	80	149	28	14	10	51	21	78	25	8	.302	.337	.477	.814	111.6	110.4	.354	3.1
2002	148	656	623	80	170	31	6	9	59	17	79	12	13	.273	.292	.385	.677	75.2	78.5	.294	0.9
2003	143	585	534	78	143	15	14	3	53	30	79	18	9	.268	.311	.365	.676	77.3	77.3	.301	1.0
2004	145	624	576	84	158	31	4	8	46	30	64	10	5	.274	.309	.384	.693	76.0	78.7	.303	0.9
2005	142	492	456	39	100	19	6	4	31	25	76	7	4	.219	.260	.314	.574	44.9	53.0	.253	-1.0
2007	46	192	174	31	57	6	6	2	14	15	21	2	0	.328	.380	.466	.846	122.4	120.2	.373	1.4
2008	138	612	579	77	183	35	5	9	55	23	57	6	5	.316	.345	.440	.786	106.8	106.2	.348	3.2
2009	135	555	531	74	151	24	7	6	52	16	75	4	5	.284	.306	.390	.696	80.5	82.6	.311	1.1
2010	104	396	365	48	97	12	4	2	26	20	63	4	2	.266	.311	.337	.648	73.2	75.8	.293	0.2

Career totals

1,406

5,785

5,382

727

1,459

238

220th-most career 3B

RBI

467

265

783

125

.2711

OBP

.3073

SLG

.3829

OPS

.6902

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	BB	TB
2008-08-28	LAD @ WSH Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	3	0	10
2001-09-05	MIN @ TEX Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	3	0	9
2008-09-10	WSH @ NYM Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
2008-05-03	PIT @ WSH Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	6	0	8
2004-05-07	MIN @ ATH Gameday	6	2	5	2	0	0	0	1	7

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× 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.