MLB / Players

Hank Blalock

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 192 lb

BornNovember 21, 1980 · San Diego, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 1, 2002

Final gameJune 27, 2010

Seasons9 (2002–2010)

Texas Rangers 2002–2009; Tampa Bay Rays 2010

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified batters

152

61.5

646

63.4

591

74.5

31.7

157

55.3

21.7

57.1

42.9

RBI

64.6

44.1

41.6

8.7

83.2

.266

18.6

OBP

.325

16.1

SLG

.401

21.7

OPS

.726

16.1

wRC+

84.3

8.7

OPS+

85.6

9.9

wOBA

.319

12.4

sWAR

0.8

11.2

of 162 qualified 2006 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.2

42.1

OPS+

101.1

43.8

sWAR

12.5

89.3

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
2002	49	172	147	16	31	8	0	3	17	20	43	0	0	.211	.306	.327	.632	63.6	63.6	.287	-0.1
2003	143	615	567	89	170	33	3	29	90	44	97	2	3	.300	.350	.522	.872	118.5	117.1	.375	3.7
2004	159	713	624	107	172	38	3	32	110	75	149	2	2	.276	.355	.500	.855	112.4	113.4	.367	3.7
2005	161	705	647	80	170	34	0	25	92	51	132	1	0	.263	.318	.431	.749	92.9	93.0	.327	2.1
2006	152	646	591	76	157	26	3	16	89	51	98	1	0	.266	.325	.401	.726	84.3	85.6	.319	0.8
2007	58	232	208	32	61	16	3	10	33	21	38	4	1	.293	.358	.543	.901	130.7	131.1	.389	1.5
2008	65	281	258	37	74	19	1	12	38	19	40	1	0	.287	.338	.508	.846	116.6	118.8	.364	1.3
2009	123	495	462	62	108	21	4	25	66	26	108	2	0	.234	.277	.459	.736	80.9	85.7	.313	-0.6
2010	26	69	63	8	16	3	0	1	7	6	15	1	1	.254	.319	.349	.668	89.7	87.7	.306	0.0

Career totals

936

3,928

3,567

507

959

198

153

RBI

542

313

720

.2689

OBP

.3288

SLG

.4626

361st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7914

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
2004-06-28	TEX @ SEA Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	3	10
2004-08-18	CLE @ TEX Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	3	10
2009-07-01	LAA @ TEX Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	10
2003-07-03	TEX @ LAA Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	2	10
2004-06-26	HOU @ TEX Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	2	9

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.