MLB / Players

Luis Castillo

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 145 lb

BornSeptember 12, 1975 · San Pedro de Macoris, San Pedro de Macorís, D.R.

MLB debutAugust 8, 1996

Final gameOctober 3, 2010

Seasons15 (1996–2010)

Florida Marlins 1996–2005; Minnesota Twins 2006–2007; New York Mets 2007–2010

Percentile snapshot

2009 season — qualified batters

142

35.1

580

32.5

486

20.1

42.9

147

42.2

0.6

55.8

RBI

3.2

66.9

92.2

76.6

21.4

.302

78.6

OBP

.387

81.8

SLG

.346

3.2

OPS

.732

18.8

wRC+

104.7

OPS+

98.7

26.6

wOBA

.342

32.5

sWAR

2.4

40.3

of 155 qualified 2009 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.2

36.3

OPS+

91.8

sWAR

24.6

95.2

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
1996	41	180	164	26	43	2	1	1	8	14	46	17	4	.262	.320	.305	.625	73.0	69.4	.293	0.0
1997	75	291	263	27	63	8	0	0	8	27	53	16	10	.240	.310	.270	.580	60.1	56.9	.277	-0.4
1998	44	177	153	21	31	3	2	1	10	22	33	3	0	.203	.307	.268	.575	61.7	56.2	.277	-0.2
1999	128	563	487	76	147	23	4	0	28	67	85	50	17	.302	.384	.366	.750	101.7	95.5	.348	2.2
2000	136	626	539	101	180	17	3	2	17	78	86	62	22	.334	.418	.388	.806	118.5	110.3	.374	3.7
2001	134	612	537	76	141	16	10	2	45	67	90	33	16	.263	.344	.341	.685	86.3	81.4	.315	1.2
2002	146	668	606	86	185	18	5	2	39	55	76	48	15	.305	.364	.361	.726	99.5	96.3	.334	2.4
2003	152	676	595	99	187	19	6	6	39	63	60	21	19	.314	.381	.397	.778	113.4	108.0	.355	3.6
2004	150	649	564	91	164	12	7	2	47	75	68	21	4	.291	.373	.348	.720	94.5	89.0	.333	1.9
2005	122	524	439	72	132	12	4	4	30	65	32	10	7	.301	.391	.374	.765	114.4	107.0	.354	2.8
2006	142	652	584	84	173	22	6	3	49	56	58	25	11	.296	.358	.370	.728	95.3	91.5	.330	2.1
2007	135	615	548	91	165	19	5	1	38	53	45	19	6	.301	.362	.359	.721	97.9	93.7	.331	2.1
2008	87	359	298	46	73	7	1	3	28	50	35	17	2	.245	.355	.305	.660	84.5	78.4	.313	0.6
2009	142	580	486	77	147	12	3	1	40	69	58	20	6	.302	.387	.346	.732	104.7	98.7	.342	2.4
2010	86	299	247	28	58	4	2	0	17	39	25	8	3	.235	.337	.267	.604	74.9	68.8	.291	0.2

Career totals

1,720

488th-most career G

7,471

368th-most career PA

6,510

391st-most career AB

1,001

354th-most career R

1,889

354th-most career H

194

RBI

443

800

273rd-most career BB

850

370

94th-most career SB

.2902

402nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3676

334th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3510

OPS

.7186

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
2003-05-11	COL @ MIA Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	2	7
2002-06-05	MIA @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	1	7
2006-05-13	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	2	7
2006-04-15	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	2	6
2004-04-24	ATL @ MIA Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	0	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.

Honors

3× Gold Glove3× 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.