MLB / Players

Josh Hamilton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 240 lb

BornMay 21, 1981 · Raleigh, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 2, 2007

Final gameOctober 4, 2015

Seasons9 (2007–2015)

Cincinnati Reds 2007; Texas Rangers 2008–2012; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2013–2014; Texas Rangers 2015

Percentile snapshot

2013 season — qualified batters

151

58.3

636

63.3

576

64.7

48.9

144

61.9

81.3

61.9

RBI

62.6

158

7.2

40.3

76.3

.250

21.6

OBP

.307

16.5

SLG

.432

50.4

OPS

.739

37.4

wRC+

103.7

35.3

OPS+

106.3

42.4

wOBA

.321

24.5

sWAR

1.5

20.1

of 140 qualified 2013 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.5

87.2

OPS+

127.9

88.6

sWAR

25.6

95.5

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
2007	90	337	298	52	87	17	2	19	47	33	65	3	3	.292	.368	.554	.922	130.7	130.0	.394	2.4
2008	156	704	624	98	190	35	5	32	130	64	126	9	1	.304	.371	.530	.901	132.3	133.7	.388	5.1
2009	89	365	336	43	90	19	2	10	54	24	79	8	3	.268	.315	.426	.741	86.4	89.3	.322	0.5
2010	133	571	518	95	186	40	3	32	100	43	95	8	1	.359	.411	.633	1.044	176.8	171.6	.448	6.7
2011	121	538	487	80	145	31	5	25	94	39	93	8	1	.298	.346	.536	.882	124.1	129.2	.369	2.9
2012	148	636	562	103	160	31	2	43	128	60	162	7	4	.285	.354	.577	.930	139.8	142.5	.387	4.9
2013	151	636	576	73	144	32	5	21	79	47	158	4	0	.250	.307	.432	.739	103.7	106.3	.321	1.5
2014	89	381	338	43	89	21	0	10	44	32	108	3	3	.263	.331	.414	.745	111.6	113.9	.328	1.3
2015	50	182	170	22	43	8	0	8	25	10	52	0	0	.253	.291	.441	.732	92.5	94.2	.314	0.2

Career totals

1,027

4,350

3,909

609

1,134

234

200

384th-most career HR

RBI

701

352

938

461st-most career SO

.2901

408th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3493

SLG

.5157

77th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8650

137th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2012-05-08	TEX @ BAL Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	4	8	0	18
2008-05-16	HOU @ TEX Gameday	5	4	5	0	1	2	5	1	13
2011-07-09	ATH @ TEX Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	3	0	9
2011-07-02	MIA @ TEX Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
2012-05-11	LAA @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	2	1	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

3× Silver Slugger1× ALCS MVP1× Most Valuable Player5× 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.