MLB / Players

Magglio Ordonez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 215 lb

BornJanuary 28, 1974 · Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela

MLB debutAugust 29, 1997

Final gameSeptember 27, 2011

Seasons15 (1997–2011)

Chicago White Sox 1997–2004; Detroit Tigers 2005–2011

Percentile snapshot

2009 season — qualified batters

131

10.4

518

6.5

465

10.4

4.5

144

18.8

40.3

15.6

RBI

39.6

86.4

23.4

72.1

.310

87.7

OBP

.376

74.7

SLG

.428

OPS

.804

48.7

wRC+

113.7

50.6

OPS+

110.7

49.4

wOBA

.358

51.3

sWAR

1.9

30.5

of 155 qualified 2009 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.5

87.1

OPS+

126.0

86.8

sWAR

42.4

98.2

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
1997	21	72	69	12	22	6	0	4	11	2	8	1	2	.319	.338	.580	.918	138.2	138.3	.394	0.5
1998	145	578	535	70	151	25	2	14	65	28	53	9	7	.282	.326	.415	.741	93.4	93.9	.327	0.9
1999	157	677	624	100	188	34	3	30	117	47	64	13	6	.301	.349	.510	.858	114.1	116.0	.370	2.7
2000	153	665	588	102	185	34	3	32	126	60	64	18	4	.315	.371	.546	.917	124.7	127.3	.391	3.6
2001	160	671	593	97	181	40	1	31	113	70	70	25	7	.305	.382	.533	.914	135.7	134.6	.393	4.4
2002	153	653	590	116	189	47	1	38	135	53	77	7	5	.320	.381	.597	.978	154.7	153.2	.417	5.9
2003	160	674	606	95	192	46	3	29	99	57	73	9	5	.317	.380	.546	.926	146.1	144.9	.399	5.4
2004	52	222	202	32	59	8	2	9	37	16	22	0	2	.292	.351	.485	.836	112.8	113.4	.361	0.8
2005	82	343	305	38	92	17	0	8	46	30	35	0	0	.302	.359	.436	.795	113.2	112.8	.348	1.3
2006	155	646	593	82	177	32	1	24	104	45	87	1	4	.298	.350	.477	.827	112.2	111.9	.359	2.5
2007	157	678	595	117	216	54	0	28	139	76	79	4	1	.363	.434	.595	1.029	168.0	166.8	.445	7.1
2008	146	623	561	72	178	32	2	21	103	53	76	1	5	.317	.376	.494	.869	129.0	127.2	.382	3.6
2009	131	518	465	54	144	24	2	9	50	51	65	3	1	.310	.376	.428	.804	113.7	110.7	.358	1.9
2010	84	365	323	56	98	17	1	12	59	40	38	1	0	.303	.378	.474	.852	135.4	130.9	.380	2.3
2011	92	357	329	33	84	10	0	5	32	23	41	2	1	.255	.303	.331	.634	73.2	73.8	.286	-0.5

Career totals

1,848

370th-most career G

7,742

329th-most career PA

6,978

315th-most career AB

1,076

291st-most career R

2,156

207th-most career H

426

150th-most career 2B

294

171st-most career HR

RBI

1,236

143rd-most career RBI

651

447th-most career BB

852

.3090

127th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3685

316th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5024

113th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8709

125th-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
2000-07-16	MIL @ CWS Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	6	1	10
2008-05-24	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	4	3	1	0	2	6	1	10
2002-07-27	KC @ CWS Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	3	0	10
1999-04-28	TB @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
2010-06-03	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	5	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

3× Silver Slugger6× 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.