Delmon Young

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 240 lb

BornSeptember 14, 1985 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutAugust 29, 2006

Final gameJune 29, 2015

Seasons10 (2006–2015)

Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2006–2007; Minnesota Twins 2008–2010; Detroit Tigers 2011; Minnesota Twins 2011; Detroit Tigers 2012; Philadelphia Phillies 2013; Tampa Bay Rays 2013; Baltimore Orioles 2014–2015

Percentile snapshot

2012 season — qualified batters

151

57.3

608

45.5

574

67.1

5.6

153

60.8

35.7

14.7

45.5

RBI

49.7

0.7

112

44.1

61.5

.267

39.2

OBP

.296

SLG

.411

33.6

OPS

.707

20.3

wRC+

86.9

13.3

OPS+

89.4

16.1

wOBA

.306

16.8

sWAR

-0.4

3.5

of 144 qualified 2012 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.9

33.6

OPS+

98.1

37.7

sWAR

6.3

81.8

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
2006	30	131	126	16	40	9	1	3	10	1	24	2	2	.317	.336	.476	.812	108.4	108.7	.351	0.5
2007	162	681	645	65	186	38	0	13	93	26	127	10	3	.288	.316	.408	.723	89.1	91.1	.319	0.8
2008	152	623	575	80	167	28	4	10	69	35	105	14	5	.290	.336	.405	.741	96.4	98.6	.327	1.1
2009	108	416	395	50	112	16	2	12	60	12	92	2	5	.284	.308	.425	.733	88.5	91.6	.317	0.3
2010	153	613	570	77	170	46	1	21	112	28	81	5	4	.298	.333	.493	.826	120.0	122.7	.356	2.8
2011	124	503	473	54	127	21	1	12	64	23	85	1	0	.268	.302	.393	.695	87.5	89.9	.305	0.3
2012	151	608	574	54	153	27	1	18	74	20	112	0	2	.267	.296	.411	.707	86.9	89.4	.306	-0.4
2013	103	361	334	30	87	16	0	11	38	20	78	0	0	.260	.307	.407	.715	97.0	97.4	.318	0.4
2014	83	255	242	27	73	11	1	7	30	10	51	2	0	.302	.337	.442	.779	120.1	117.6	.347	0.9
2015	52	180	174	20	47	6	0	2	16	4	29	0	0	.270	.289	.339	.628	69.2	72.4	.276	-0.3

Career totals

1,118

4,371

4,108

473

1,162

218

109

RBI

566

179

784

.2829

OBP

.3160

SLG

.4209

OPS

.7369

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2015-05-31	TB @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	2	2	1	9
2007-05-17	TEX @ TB Gameday	5	2	2	2	5	0	8
2011-08-03	MIN @ LAA Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	1	8
2011-10-13	TEX @ DET Gameday	3	2	2	2	3	0	8
2009-10-04	KC @ MIN Gameday	5	2	2	2	2	0	8

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× ALCS 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.