Juan Gonzalez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 20, 1969 · Arecibo, P.R.

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1989

Final gameMay 31, 2005

Seasons17 (1989–2005)

Texas Rangers 1989–1999; Detroit Tigers 2000; Cleveland Indians 2001; Texas Rangers 2002–2003; Kansas City Royals 2004; Cleveland Indians 2005

Percentile snapshot

2001 season — qualified batters

140

25.6

595

39.7

532

42.3

71.2

173

78.8

65.4

14.1

85.3

RBI

140

97.4

28.2

42.9

4.5

96.2

.325

90.4

OBP

.370

68.6

SLG

.590

OPS

.960

87.2

wRC+

142.8

83.3

OPS+

145.8

84.6

wOBA

.402

85.3

sWAR

4.3

75.6

of 157 qualified 2001 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

128.7

89.3

OPS+

132.0

91.8

sWAR

40.1

97.9

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
1989	24	68	60	6	9	3	0	1	7	6	17	0	0	.150	.227	.250	.477	32.6	34.0	.230	-0.3
1990	25	95	90	11	26	7	1	4	12	2	18	0	1	.289	.316	.522	.838	129.4	130.9	.370	0.6
1991	142	595	545	78	144	34	1	27	102	42	118	4	4	.264	.321	.479	.800	117.1	120.3	.352	2.9
1992	155	632	584	77	152	24	2	43	109	35	143	0	1	.260	.304	.529	.833	129.4	133.0	.367	4.4
1993	140	587	536	105	166	33	1	46	118	37	99	4	1	.310	.368	.632	1.000	165.3	168.4	.432	5.9
1994	107	463	422	57	116	18	4	19	85	30	66	6	4	.275	.330	.472	.802	99.9	105.5	.343	1.0
1995	90	374	352	57	104	20	2	27	82	17	66	0	0	.295	.324	.594	.917	125.3	130.5	.387	1.5
1996	134	592	541	89	170	33	2	47	144	45	82	2	0	.314	.368	.643	1.011	140.5	145.2	.422	4.1
1997	133	579	533	87	158	24	3	42	131	33	107	0	0	.296	.335	.589	.924	126.4	131.0	.387	2.7
1998	154	669	606	110	193	50	2	45	157	46	126	2	1	.318	.366	.630	.997	145.5	149.6	.415	5.0
1999	144	629	562	114	183	36	1	39	128	51	105	3	3	.326	.378	.601	.980	137.6	141.2	.413	4.2
2000	115	496	461	69	133	30	2	22	67	32	84	1	2	.289	.337	.505	.842	110.6	112.7	.362	1.5
2001	140	595	532	97	173	34	1	35	140	41	94	1	0	.325	.370	.590	.960	142.8	145.8	.402	4.3
2002	70	296	277	38	78	21	1	8	35	17	56	2	0	.282	.324	.451	.776	96.7	97.4	.337	0.5
2003	82	346	327	49	96	17	1	24	70	14	73	1	1	.294	.329	.572	.901	122.8	122.5	.382	1.6
2004	33	138	127	17	35	4	1	5	17	9	19	0	1	.276	.326	.441	.767	96.3	97.9	.333	0.2
2005	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.7	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,689

7,155

427th-most career PA

6,556

387th-most career AB

1,061

307th-most career R

1,936

327th-most career H

388

234th-most career 2B

434

49th-most career HR

RBI

1,404

79th-most career RBI

457

1,273

185th-most career SO

.2953

298th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3432

SLG

.5607

21st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9039

70th-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	TB
1999-09-24	ATH @ TEX Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	3	5	13
1996-07-30	NYY @ TEX Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	2	2	12
1993-08-28	BAL @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	5	12
1992-06-07	MIN @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	12
1998-08-31	TEX @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	1	7	11

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

6× Silver Slugger2× Most Valuable Player3× 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.