Luis Gonzalez

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornSeptember 3, 1967 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1990

Final gameSeptember 28, 2008

Seasons19 (1990–2008)

Houston Astros 1990–1994; Chicago Cubs 1995; Houston Astros 1995; Chicago Cubs 1996; Houston Astros 1997; Detroit Tigers 1998; Arizona Diamondbacks 1999–2006; Los Angeles Dodgers 2007; Florida Marlins 2008

Percentile snapshot

2007 season — qualified batters

139

25.5

526

10.6

464

8.1

25.5

129

14.9

12.4

35.4

37.3

RBI

32.9

53.4

90.7

50.3

51.6

.278

44.7

OBP

.359

56.5

SLG

.433

36.6

OPS

.793

wRC+

107.3

46.6

OPS+

105.1

42.2

wOBA

.352

46.6

sWAR

1.5

20.5

of 162 qualified 2007 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.9

77.5

OPS+

118.7

77.4

sWAR

46.3

98.6

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
1990	12	23	21	1	4	2	0	0	0	2	5	0	0	.190	.261	.286	.547	38.5	52.5	.237	-0.1
1991	137	526	473	51	120	28	9	13	69	40	101	10	7	.254	.320	.433	.753	114.5	115.4	.340	2.0
1992	122	416	387	40	94	19	3	10	55	24	52	7	7	.243	.289	.385	.674	90.0	92.9	.307	0.3
1993	154	610	540	82	162	34	3	15	72	47	83	20	9	.300	.361	.457	.818	120.9	122.1	.363	2.8
1994	112	450	392	57	107	29	4	8	67	49	57	15	13	.273	.353	.429	.782	108.0	108.5	.346	1.4
1995	133	541	471	69	130	29	8	13	69	57	63	6	8	.276	.357	.454	.812	115.0	116.4	.358	2.1
1996	146	555	483	70	131	30	4	15	79	61	49	9	6	.271	.354	.443	.797	106.4	107.1	.352	1.5
1997	152	631	550	78	142	31	2	10	68	71	67	10	7	.258	.345	.376	.722	94.1	93.2	.328	0.9
1998	154	620	547	84	146	35	5	23	71	57	62	12	7	.267	.340	.475	.816	106.5	109.2	.351	1.7
1999	153	693	614	112	206	45	4	26	111	66	63	9	5	.336	.403	.549	.952	139.1	138.1	.413	5.0
2000	162	722	618	106	192	47	2	31	114	78	85	2	4	.311	.392	.544	.935	131.6	131.9	.403	4.4
2001	162	728	609	128	198	36	7	57	142	100	83	1	1	.325	.429	.688	1.117	174.9	176.6	.460	8.3
2002	148	633	524	90	151	19	3	28	103	97	76	9	2	.288	.400	.496	.896	132.2	127.8	.396	3.9
2003	156	679	579	92	176	46	4	26	104	94	67	5	3	.304	.402	.532	.934	136.1	135.5	.402	4.5
2004	105	451	379	69	98	28	5	17	48	68	58	2	2	.259	.373	.493	.866	117.0	117.6	.373	1.9
2005	155	672	579	90	157	37	0	24	79	78	90	4	1	.271	.366	.459	.825	112.2	111.8	.362	2.4
2006	153	668	586	93	159	52	2	15	73	69	58	0	1	.271	.352	.444	.795	98.1	98.9	.346	1.2
2007	139	526	464	70	129	23	2	15	68	56	56	6	2	.278	.359	.433	.793	107.3	105.1	.352	1.5
2008	136	387	341	30	89	26	1	8	47	41	43	1	2	.261	.336	.413	.749	94.8	93.9	.335	0.5

Career totals

2,591

44th-most career G

10,531

55th-most career PA

9,157

66th-most career AB

1,412

93rd-most career R

2,591

86th-most career H

596

19th-most career 2B

419th-most career 3B

354

98th-most career HR

RBI

1,439

67th-most career RBI

1,155

73rd-most career BB

1,218

224th-most career SO

128

.2830

OBP

.3666

351st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4789

229th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8455

222nd-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
2001-06-08	AZ @ KC Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	4	1	12
2004-05-10	NYM @ AZ Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	4	0	12
2000-07-05	AZ @ HOU Gameday	6	4	4	1	1	1	1	0	10
1997-07-20	HOU @ WSH Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	6	0	10
2001-06-19	AZ @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	6	0	10

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 Slugger5× 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.