Josh Willingham

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 230 lb

BornFebruary 17, 1979 · Florence, AL, USA

MLB debutJuly 6, 2004

Final gameSeptember 28, 2014

Seasons11 (2004–2014)

Florida Marlins 2004–2008; Washington Nationals 2009–2010; Oakland Athletics 2011; Minnesota Twins 2012–2013; Kansas City Royals 2014; Minnesota Twins 2014

Percentile snapshot

2012 season — qualified batters

145

37.1

615

50.3

519

34.3

67.1

135

53.1

14.7

95.1

RBI

110

96.5

92.3

141

17.5

24.5

61.5

.260

33.6

OBP

.366

81.8

SLG

.524

92.3

OPS

.890

92.3

wRC+

143.0

92.3

OPS+

141.7

92.3

wOBA

.381

89.5

sWAR

4.5

83.9

of 144 qualified 2012 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.5

82.6

OPS+

119.5

78.5

sWAR

21.9

94.3

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
2004	12	29	25	2	5	0	0	1	1	4	8	0	0	.200	.310	.320	.630	68.8	64.4	.294	0.0
2005	16	28	23	3	7	1	0	0	4	2	5	0	0	.304	.407	.348	.755	116.2	105.7	.357	0.2
2006	142	573	502	62	139	28	2	26	74	54	109	2	0	.277	.356	.496	.852	119.4	118.1	.370	2.6
2007	144	604	521	75	138	32	4	21	89	66	122	8	1	.265	.364	.463	.827	117.8	113.4	.368	2.6
2008	102	416	351	54	89	21	5	15	51	48	82	3	2	.254	.364	.470	.834	118.8	115.2	.370	1.8
2009	133	502	427	70	111	29	0	24	61	61	104	4	3	.260	.367	.496	.863	129.4	125.8	.382	2.8
2010	114	450	370	54	99	19	2	16	56	67	85	8	0	.268	.389	.459	.848	134.6	129.4	.381	2.8
2011	136	563	488	69	120	26	0	29	98	56	150	4	1	.246	.332	.477	.810	122.2	122.9	.351	2.6
2012	145	615	519	85	135	30	1	35	110	76	141	3	2	.260	.366	.524	.890	143.0	141.7	.381	4.5
2013	111	471	389	42	81	20	0	14	48	66	128	1	0	.208	.342	.368	.709	100.8	95.1	.325	0.9
2014	92	364	297	48	64	10	1	14	40	53	102	2	0	.215	.346	.397	.743	113.2	109.5	.337	1.1

Career totals

1,147

4,615

3,912

564

988

216

195

404th-most career HR

RBI

632

553

1,036

360th-most career SO

.2526

OBP

.3583

SLG

.4650

333rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8233

323rd-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
2009-08-25	WSH @ CHC Gameday	4	5	4	0	2	6	1	10
2009-07-27	WSH @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	8	0	10
2009-07-11	WSH @ HOU Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	4	1	10
2009-07-22	NYM @ WSH Gameday	4	1	4	2	1	2	0	9
2006-07-30	MIA @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	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

1× Silver Slugger

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.