MLB / Players

Jorge Posada

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornAugust 17, 1970 · Santurce, P.R.

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1995

Final gameSeptember 28, 2011

Seasons17 (1995–2011)

New York Yankees 1995–2011

Percentile snapshot

2007 season — qualified batters

144

589

35.4

506

69.6

171

70.8

83.9

12.4

RBI

68.3

80.1

47.2

21.7

88.2

.338

97.5

OBP

.426

97.5

SLG

.543

87.6

OPS

.970

93.2

wRC+

156.0

96.3

OPS+

154.3

95.7

wOBA

.425

96.3

sWAR

7.1

98.1

of 162 qualified 2007 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.8

84.6

OPS+

122.9

83.6

sWAR

55.3

99.2

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
1995	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1996	8	15	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	.071	.133	.071	.205	-48.4	-45.6	.109	-0.2
1997	60	224	188	29	47	12	0	6	25	30	33	1	2	.250	.359	.410	.768	105.3	103.1	.345	1.4
1998	111	409	358	56	96	23	0	17	63	47	92	0	1	.268	.350	.475	.824	114.2	117.9	.355	2.8
1999	112	437	379	50	93	19	2	12	57	53	91	1	0	.245	.341	.401	.742	94.3	92.5	.333	2.0
2000	151	624	505	92	145	35	1	28	86	107	151	2	2	.287	.417	.527	.943	140.7	141.2	.410	6.2
2001	138	557	484	59	134	28	1	22	95	62	132	2	6	.277	.363	.475	.838	118.7	120.6	.361	4.1
2002	143	598	511	79	137	40	1	20	99	81	143	1	0	.268	.370	.468	.837	123.8	123.8	.364	4.8
2003	142	588	481	83	135	24	0	30	101	93	110	2	4	.281	.405	.518	.922	146.6	145.0	.401	6.4
2004	137	547	449	72	122	31	0	21	81	88	92	1	3	.272	.400	.481	.881	134.2	130.7	.389	5.2
2005	142	546	474	67	124	23	0	19	71	66	94	1	0	.262	.352	.430	.782	110.2	109.2	.344	3.6
2006	143	545	465	65	129	27	2	23	93	64	97	3	0	.277	.374	.492	.867	124.9	122.3	.379	4.7
2007	144	589	506	91	171	42	1	20	90	74	98	2	0	.338	.426	.543	.970	156.0	154.3	.425	7.1
2008	51	195	168	18	45	13	1	3	22	24	38	0	0	.268	.364	.411	.775	106.2	105.3	.346	0.8
2009	111	438	383	55	109	25	0	22	81	48	101	1	0	.285	.363	.522	.885	126.7	127.6	.379	3.6
2010	120	451	383	49	95	23	1	18	57	59	99	3	1	.248	.357	.454	.811	120.2	117.2	.361	3.0
2011	115	387	344	34	81	14	0	14	44	39	76	0	2	.235	.315	.398	.714	90.7	91.8	.315	-0.3

Career totals

1,829

384th-most career G

7,150

429th-most career PA

6,092

489th-most career AB

900

482nd-most career R

1,664

379

251st-most career 2B

275

209th-most career HR

RBI

1,065

252nd-most career RBI

936

163rd-most career BB

1,453

92nd-most career SO

.2731

OBP

.3740

248th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4741

273rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8481

201st-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2007-09-04	SEA @ NYY Gameday	4	4	4	0	2	2	1	10
2001-06-02	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	5	0	10
2006-04-09	NYY @ LAA Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	5	1	10
2000-07-28	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	3	4	2	1	3	1	9
2002-05-12	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	2	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-04-11	TEX @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2000-06-11	NYM @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2000-06-12	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2000-07-15	MIA @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	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

5× Silver Slugger5× 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.