MLB / Players

Edgar Martinez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 2, 1963 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1987

Final gameOctober 3, 2004

Seasons18 (1987–2004)

Seattle Mariners 1987–2004

Percentile snapshot

2004 season — qualified batters

141

29.4

549

19.4

486

19.4

128

12.5

23.1

RBI

58.1

107

8.8

89.4

.263

19.4

OBP

.342

36.3

SLG

.385

10.6

OPS

.727

12.5

wRC+

88.2

14.4

OPS+

89.8

wOBA

.320

12.5

sWAR

-0.3

of 161 qualified 2004 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

148.3

98.1

OPS+

147.0

97.4

sWAR

65.0

99.5

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
1987	13	46	43	6	16	5	2	0	5	2	5	0	0	.372	.413	.581	.994	159.2	154.8	.431	0.5
1988	14	38	32	0	9	4	0	0	5	4	7	0	0	.281	.351	.406	.758	110.3	108.3	.345	0.2
1989	65	196	171	20	41	5	0	2	20	17	26	2	1	.240	.314	.304	.619	74.2	73.3	.292	0.2
1990	144	570	487	71	147	27	2	11	49	74	62	1	4	.302	.397	.433	.830	138.3	132.1	.384	4.9
1991	150	642	544	98	167	35	1	14	52	84	72	0	3	.307	.405	.452	.857	140.5	137.3	.389	5.5
1992	135	592	528	100	181	46	3	18	73	54	61	14	4	.343	.404	.544	.948	167.3	163.7	.427	6.7
1993	42	165	135	20	32	7	0	4	13	28	19	0	0	.237	.366	.378	.744	106.6	100.4	.348	0.4
1994	89	387	326	47	93	23	1	13	51	53	42	6	2	.285	.387	.482	.869	123.9	122.3	.384	2.3
1995	145	639	511	121	182	52	0	29	113	116	87	4	3	.356	.479	.628	1.107	183.1	185.7	.475	7.0
1996	139	634	499	121	163	52	2	26	103	123	84	3	3	.327	.464	.595	1.059	165.9	166.6	.456	5.7
1997	155	678	542	104	179	35	1	28	108	119	86	2	4	.330	.456	.554	1.009	166.1	163.8	.441	6.0
1998	154	672	556	86	179	46	1	29	102	106	96	1	1	.322	.429	.565	.993	157.6	155.8	.430	5.4
1999	142	608	502	86	169	35	1	24	86	97	99	7	2	.337	.447	.554	1.001	158.8	156.8	.438	4.9
2000	153	665	556	100	180	31	0	37	145	96	95	3	0	.324	.423	.579	1.002	153.8	156.2	.429	5.1
2001	132	581	470	80	144	40	1	23	116	93	90	4	1	.306	.423	.543	.966	159.7	161.7	.415	4.8
2002	97	407	328	42	91	23	0	15	59	67	69	1	1	.277	.403	.485	.888	140.5	141.7	.385	2.3
2003	145	603	497	72	146	25	0	24	98	92	95	0	1	.294	.406	.489	.895	142.3	141.0	.391	3.6
2004	141	549	486	45	128	23	0	12	63	58	107	1	0	.263	.342	.385	.727	88.2	89.8	.320	-0.3

Career totals

2,055

221st-most career G

8,672

192nd-most career PA

7,213

269th-most career AB

1,219

177th-most career R

2,247

176th-most career H

514

55th-most career 2B

309

151st-most career HR

RBI

1,261

134th-most career RBI

1,283

50th-most career BB

1,202

235th-most career SO

.3115

105th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4178

25th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5155

80th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9333

40th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1990-05-20	SEA @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	2	3	0	12
1999-05-18	MIN @ SEA Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	4	0	12
1996-07-06	SEA @ TEX Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	3	3	2	12
1997-06-25	ATH @ SEA Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	3	0	11
1996-04-21	TOR @ SEA Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	1	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, 2019 (BBWAA)

5× Silver Slugger7× 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.