MLB / Players

Ian Desmond

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 217 lb

BornSeptember 20, 1985 · Sarasota, FL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 2009

Final gameSeptember 29, 2019

Seasons11 (2009–2019)

Washington Nationals 2009–2015; Texas Rangers 2016; Colorado Rockies 2017–2019

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified batters

160

92.8

619

61.2

555

60.4

61.9

131

32.4

15.1

92.8

54.7

RBI

77.7

49.6

146

18.7

84.9

12.9

.236

11.5

OBP

.307

18.7

SLG

.422

40.3

OPS

.729

28.8

wRC+

83.2

9.4

OPS+

83.9

6.5

wOBA

.321

30.2

sWAR

-0.5

1.4

of 140 qualified 2018 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.5

32.7

OPS+

96.2

sWAR

19.8

93.5

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
2009	21	89	82	9	23	7	2	4	12	5	14	1	0	.280	.318	.561	.879	125.9	126.8	.377	0.7
2010	154	574	525	59	141	27	4	10	65	28	109	17	5	.269	.308	.392	.700	85.9	88.6	.310	1.7
2011	154	639	584	65	148	27	5	8	49	35	139	25	10	.253	.298	.358	.656	78.5	80.7	.295	1.3
2012	130	547	513	72	150	33	2	25	73	30	113	21	6	.292	.335	.511	.845	128.1	126.0	.366	4.4
2013	158	655	600	77	168	38	3	20	80	43	145	21	6	.280	.331	.453	.784	115.2	114.3	.345	4.3
2014	154	648	593	73	151	26	3	24	91	46	183	24	5	.255	.313	.430	.743	107.1	105.6	.331	3.6
2015	156	641	583	69	136	27	2	19	62	45	187	13	5	.233	.290	.384	.674	81.8	82.9	.299	1.5
2016	156	677	625	107	178	29	3	22	86	44	160	21	6	.285	.335	.446	.782	104.1	103.4	.336	2.8
2017	95	373	339	47	93	11	1	7	40	24	87	15	4	.274	.326	.375	.701	70.8	73.1	.309	-0.7
2018	160	619	555	82	131	21	8	22	88	53	146	20	6	.236	.307	.422	.729	83.2	83.9	.321	-0.5
2019	140	482	443	64	113	31	4	20	65	34	119	3	3	.255	.310	.479	.788	88.3	89.9	.332	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2019	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	3.17	64.3	—	0.8

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,478

5,944

5,442

724

1,432

277

181

464th-most career HR

RBI

711

387

1,402

117th-most career SO

181

434th-most career SB

.2631

OBP

.3150

SLG

.4274

OPS

.7424

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

0.00

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	TB
2015-08-10	WSH @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	2	3	9
2017-05-03	COL @ SD Gameday	5	2	3	2	3	9
2018-06-15	COL @ TEX Gameday	5	2	3	2	2	9
2014-07-21	WSH @ COL Gameday	5	3	5	1	2	8
2010-08-11	MIA @ WSH Gameday	5	2	2	2	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2019-09-02	COL @ LAD Gameday	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0

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

3× Silver Slugger2× 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.