MLB / Players

Jose Castillo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 210 lb

BornMarch 19, 1981 · Las Mercedes, Guárico, Venezuela

MLB debutApril 7, 2004

Final gameSeptember 28, 2008

Seasons5 (2004–2008)

Pittsburgh Pirates 2004–2007; Houston Astros 2008; San Francisco Giants 2008

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified batters

148

48.4

562

24.8

518

32.9

4.3

131

11.2

16.1

33.5

RBI

31.7

13.7

41.6

47.2

32.9

.253

6.2

OBP

.299

3.7

SLG

.382

9.9

OPS

.682

4.3

wRC+

69.0

3.7

OPS+

74.2

3.7

wOBA

.295

3.7

sWAR

-0.1

3.1

of 162 qualified 2006 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.1

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
2004	129	414	383	44	98	15	2	8	39	23	92	3	2	.256	.298	.368	.666	68.2	72.9	.292	-0.1
2005	101	398	370	49	99	16	3	11	53	23	59	2	3	.268	.307	.416	.724	85.2	88.9	.316	0.7
2006	148	562	518	54	131	25	0	14	65	32	98	6	4	.253	.299	.382	.682	69.0	74.2	.295	-0.1
2007	87	230	221	18	54	18	1	0	24	6	48	0	0	.244	.270	.335	.604	50.4	57.1	.265	-0.5
2008	127	455	426	46	105	29	4	6	37	27	81	2	2	.246	.292	.376	.668	71.1	73.4	.298	0.1

Career totals

592

2,059

1,918

211

487

103

RBI

218

111

378

.2539

OBP

.2958

SLG

.3790

OPS

.6748

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
2006-05-30	MIL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	6	1	11
2005-05-05	PIT @ AZ Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
2005-07-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
2008-06-25	SF @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
2005-06-11	TB @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	5	1	6

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.