MLB / Players

J. J. Hardy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 19, 1982 · Tucson, AZ, USA

MLB debutApril 4, 2005

Final gameOctober 1, 2017

Seasons13 (2005–2017)

Milwaukee Brewers 2005–2009; Minnesota Twins 2010; Baltimore Orioles 2011–2017

Percentile snapshot

2014 season — qualified batters

141

32.2

569

34.9

529

42.5

19.2

142

45.2

47.3

RBI

23.3

12.3

104

49.3

86.3

.268

44.5

OBP

.309

21.2

SLG

.372

20.5

OPS

.682

15.8

wRC+

90.3

15.1

OPS+

91.1

15.1

wOBA

.306

17.8

sWAR

2.1

31.5

of 147 qualified 2014 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

89.0

22.2

OPS+

90.4

23.6

sWAR

20.9

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
2005	124	427	372	46	92	22	1	9	50	44	48	0	0	.247	.327	.384	.711	83.4	85.9	.315	1.1
2006	35	139	128	13	31	5	0	5	14	10	23	1	1	.242	.295	.398	.693	75.2	76.1	.305	0.2
2007	151	638	592	89	164	30	1	26	80	40	73	2	3	.277	.323	.463	.786	101.4	101.1	.344	2.9
2008	146	629	569	78	161	31	4	24	74	52	98	2	1	.283	.343	.478	.821	116.1	115.3	.360	4.0
2009	115	465	414	53	95	16	2	11	47	43	85	0	1	.229	.302	.357	.659	75.4	75.6	.300	0.7
2010	101	375	340	44	91	19	3	6	38	28	54	1	1	.268	.320	.394	.714	93.7	94.5	.319	1.5
2011	129	567	527	76	142	27	0	30	80	31	92	0	0	.269	.310	.491	.801	111.2	113.0	.344	3.4
2012	158	713	663	85	158	30	2	22	68	38	106	0	0	.238	.282	.389	.671	77.3	80.5	.291	1.3
2013	159	644	601	66	158	27	0	25	76	38	73	2	1	.263	.306	.433	.738	98.7	100.1	.322	3.0
2014	141	569	529	56	142	28	0	9	52	29	104	0	0	.268	.309	.372	.682	90.3	91.1	.306	2.1
2015	114	437	411	45	90	14	0	8	37	20	88	0	0	.219	.253	.311	.564	49.9	54.5	.248	-0.5
2016	115	438	405	43	109	29	0	9	48	26	68	0	0	.269	.309	.407	.716	88.6	90.7	.308	1.5
2017	73	268	254	24	55	13	1	4	24	12	48	0	1	.217	.255	.323	.578	51.4	54.2	.252	-0.3

Career totals

1,561

6,309

5,805

718

1,488

291

188

437th-most career HR

RBI

688

411

960

435th-most career SO

.2563

OBP

.3053

SLG

.4084

OPS

.7137

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	BB	TB
2012-05-06	BAL @ BOS Gameday	8	3	5	1	2	2	0	12
2012-09-11	TB @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	5	0	11
2008-07-06	PIT @ MIL Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	1	10
2016-08-18	HOU @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	3	0	10
2011-07-28	BAL @ TOR Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	2	0	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

3× Gold Glove1× 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.