MLB / Players

David Ortiz

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 230 lb

BornNovember 18, 1975 · Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1997

Final gameOctober 2, 2016

Seasons20 (1997–2016)

Minnesota Twins 1997–2002; Boston Red Sox 2003–2016

Percentile snapshot

2016 season — qualified batters

151

47.6

626

52.4

537

38.6

169

77.9

100

14.5

91.7

RBI

127

98.6

90.3

78.6

22.1

83.4

.315

93.1

OBP

.401

96.6

SLG

.620

100

OPS

1.021

100

wRC+

164.0

99.3

OPS+

164.5

99.3

wOBA

.420

98.6

sWAR

5.3

of 146 qualified 2016 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

139.8

OPS+

141.9

96.1

sWAR

57.4

99.3

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
1997	15	51	49	10	16	3	0	1	6	2	19	0	0	.327	.353	.449	.802	108.3	106.9	.356	0.1
1998	86	326	278	47	77	20	0	9	46	39	72	1	0	.277	.371	.446	.817	111.7	110.8	.360	0.9
1999	10	25	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	12	0	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-30.2	-43.3	.147	-0.4
2000	130	478	415	59	117	36	1	10	63	57	81	1	0	.282	.364	.446	.810	102.3	101.4	.358	0.6
2001	89	347	303	46	71	17	1	18	48	40	68	1	0	.234	.324	.475	.799	101.2	106.1	.338	0.2
2002	125	466	412	52	112	32	1	20	75	43	87	1	2	.272	.339	.500	.839	119.4	119.8	.361	1.5
2003	128	509	448	79	129	39	2	31	101	58	83	0	0	.288	.369	.592	.961	143.7	145.3	.404	3.2
2004	150	669	582	94	175	47	3	41	139	75	133	0	0	.301	.380	.603	.983	145.3	147.4	.413	4.4
2005	159	713	601	119	180	40	1	47	148	102	124	1	0	.300	.397	.604	1.001	158.0	159.1	.421	5.7
2006	151	686	558	115	160	29	2	54	137	119	117	1	0	.287	.413	.636	1.049	158.1	162.9	.433	5.6
2007	149	667	549	116	182	52	1	35	117	111	103	3	1	.332	.445	.621	1.066	174.0	173.7	.457	6.7
2008	109	491	416	74	110	30	1	23	89	70	74	1	0	.264	.369	.507	.877	123.7	126.3	.377	1.8
2009	150	627	541	77	129	35	1	28	99	74	134	0	2	.238	.332	.462	.794	102.3	103.6	.344	0.7
2010	145	606	518	86	140	36	1	32	102	82	145	0	1	.270	.370	.529	.899	136.3	138.0	.386	3.0
2011	146	605	525	84	162	40	1	29	96	78	83	1	1	.309	.398	.554	.953	154.0	152.2	.409	4.3
2012	90	383	324	65	103	26	0	23	60	56	51	0	1	.318	.415	.611	1.026	170.9	172.9	.427	3.5
2013	137	600	518	84	160	38	2	30	103	76	88	4	0	.309	.395	.564	.959	154.0	158.6	.400	4.1
2014	142	602	518	59	136	27	0	35	104	75	95	0	0	.263	.355	.517	.873	135.9	141.6	.370	2.9
2015	146	614	528	73	144	37	0	37	108	77	95	0	1	.273	.360	.553	.913	136.8	140.2	.378	3.1
2016	151	626	537	79	169	48	1	38	127	80	86	2	0	.315	.401	.620	1.021	164.0	164.5	.420	5.3

Career totals

2,408

85th-most career G

10,091

81st-most career PA

8,640

100th-most career AB

1,419

91st-most career R

2,472

104th-most career H

632

12th-most career 2B

541

17th-most career HR

RBI

1,768

23rd-most career RBI

1,319

43rd-most career BB

1,750

34th-most career SO

.2861

OBP

.3795

193rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5515

29th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9310

43rd-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
2005-08-12	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	6	11
2015-07-26	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	7	10
2005-05-29	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	4	10
2005-09-20	BOS @ TB Gameday	5	4	4	0	2	4	10
2014-05-13	BOS @ MIN 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

Hall of Fame, 2022 (BBWAA)

7× Silver Slugger1× ALCS MVP1× World Series MVP10× 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.