Mark DeRosa

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 215 lb

BornFebruary 26, 1975 · Passaic, NJ, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1998

Final gameSeptember 29, 2013

Seasons16 (1998–2013)

Atlanta Braves 1998–2004; Texas Rangers 2005–2006; Chicago Cubs 2007–2008; Cleveland Indians 2009; St. Louis Cardinals 2009; San Francisco Giants 2010–2011; Washington Nationals 2012; Toronto Blue Jays 2013

Percentile snapshot

2009 season — qualified batters

139

29.9

576

31.2

515

36.4

44.2

129

14.9

15.6

7.8

59.1

RBI

51.9

31.2

121

20.1

23.4

56.5

.250

9.7

OBP

.319

16.2

SLG

.433

OPS

.752

wRC+

98.7

OPS+

99.0

27.3

wOBA

.331

25.3

sWAR

1.8

of 155 qualified 2009 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.7

35.4

OPS+

95.6

32.6

sWAR

11.7

88.5

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
1998	5	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	76.5	78.2	.302	0.0
1999	7	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.6	-100.0	.000	-0.2
2000	22	15	13	9	4	1	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	.308	.400	.385	.785	109.6	101.9	.363	0.1
2001	66	184	164	27	47	8	0	3	20	12	19	2	1	.287	.350	.390	.740	85.5	91.4	.318	0.5
2002	72	232	212	24	63	9	2	5	23	12	24	2	3	.297	.339	.429	.768	99.7	102.4	.338	0.9
2003	103	288	266	40	70	14	0	6	22	16	49	1	0	.263	.316	.383	.699	83.4	82.9	.314	0.5
2004	118	345	309	33	74	16	0	3	31	23	53	1	3	.239	.293	.320	.614	55.2	59.5	.274	-0.6
2005	66	166	148	26	36	5	0	8	20	16	35	1	0	.243	.325	.439	.764	99.2	97.1	.337	0.5
2006	136	572	520	78	154	40	2	13	74	44	102	4	4	.296	.357	.456	.812	109.3	107.2	.357	2.5
2007	149	574	502	64	147	28	3	10	72	58	93	1	2	.293	.371	.420	.792	104.8	100.9	.355	2.2
2008	149	593	505	103	144	30	3	21	87	69	106	6	0	.285	.376	.481	.857	122.6	118.3	.380	3.4
2009	139	576	515	78	129	23	1	23	78	47	121	3	2	.250	.319	.433	.752	98.7	99.0	.331	1.8
2010	26	104	93	9	18	3	0	1	10	9	16	0	2	.194	.279	.258	.537	51.2	49.0	.257	-0.4
2011	47	97	86	9	24	2	0	0	12	8	18	1	1	.279	.351	.302	.653	94.4	89.5	.308	0.2
2012	48	101	85	13	16	5	0	0	6	14	18	1	0	.188	.300	.247	.547	56.0	51.7	.264	-0.3
2013	88	236	204	23	48	12	1	7	36	28	49	0	0	.235	.326	.407	.733	101.3	100.1	.325	0.6

Career totals

1,241

4,094

3,633

538

975

196

100

RBI

494

358

707

.2684

OBP

.3395

SLG

.4115

OPS

.7510

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
2006-08-09	TEX @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	6	1	11
2009-09-21	STL @ HOU Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	0	10
2008-06-30	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	6	1	9
2007-09-17	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	1	5	0	1	2	0	8
2009-04-18	CLE @ NYY Gameday	7	2	4	1	1	6	0	8

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.