Melky Cabrera

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 210 lb

BornAugust 11, 1984 · Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, D.R.

MLB debutJuly 7, 2005

Final gameSeptember 29, 2019

Seasons15 (2005–2019)

New York Yankees 2005–2009; Atlanta Braves 2010; Kansas City Royals 2011; San Francisco Giants 2012; Toronto Blue Jays 2013–2014; Chicago White Sox 2015–2017; Kansas City Royals 2017; Cleveland Indians 2018; Pittsburgh Pirates 2019

Percentile snapshot

2017 season — qualified batters

156

79.7

666

82.5

620

93.7

46.9

177

90.2

52.4

39.2

29.4

RBI

67.1

19.6

90.9

8.4

53.1

.285

69.9

OBP

.324

32.2

SLG

.423

29.4

OPS

.746

26.6

wRC+

98.1

32.2

OPS+

98.9

32.2

wOBA

.321

26.6

sWAR

1.3

of 144 qualified 2017 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.8

OPS+

102.8

47.7

sWAR

21.6

94.2

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
2005	6	19	19	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.211	.211	.211	.421	6.0	14.1	.188	-0.1
2006	130	524	460	75	129	26	2	7	50	56	59	12	5	.280	.360	.391	.752	98.1	95.1	.338	1.1
2007	150	612	545	66	149	24	8	8	73	43	68	13	5	.273	.327	.391	.718	89.4	89.0	.322	1.4
2008	129	453	414	42	103	12	1	8	37	29	58	9	2	.249	.301	.341	.641	66.3	69.9	.286	-0.2
2009	154	540	485	66	133	28	1	13	68	43	59	10	2	.274	.336	.416	.752	94.2	95.1	.330	1.2
2010	147	509	458	50	117	27	3	4	42	42	64	7	1	.255	.317	.354	.671	77.8	82.9	.297	-0.2
2011	155	706	658	102	201	44	5	18	87	35	94	20	10	.305	.339	.470	.809	119.7	119.7	.352	4.3
2012	113	501	459	84	159	25	10	11	60	36	63	13	5	.346	.390	.516	.906	155.6	154.7	.394	4.5
2013	88	372	344	39	96	15	2	3	30	23	47	2	2	.279	.322	.360	.682	87.3	87.3	.306	0.2
2014	139	621	568	81	171	35	3	16	73	43	67	6	2	.301	.351	.458	.808	128.9	127.3	.357	3.6
2015	158	683	629	70	172	36	2	12	77	40	88	3	0	.273	.314	.394	.709	94.2	95.8	.308	1.1
2016	151	646	591	70	175	42	5	14	86	47	69	2	0	.296	.345	.455	.800	117.8	117.2	.344	2.9
2017	156	666	620	78	177	30	2	17	85	36	74	1	2	.285	.324	.423	.746	98.1	98.9	.321	1.3
2018	78	278	250	28	70	17	0	6	39	20	38	1	1	.280	.335	.420	.755	105.2	105.2	.327	0.7
2019	133	397	378	43	106	22	1	7	47	17	41	2	0	.280	.313	.399	.713	83.5	85.7	.304	0.0

Career totals

1,887

340th-most career G

7,527

361st-most career PA

6,878

333rd-most career AB

895

488th-most career R

1,962

315th-most career H

383

242nd-most career 2B

144

RBI

854

456th-most career RBI

510

891

101

.2853

OBP

.3341

SLG

.4168

OPS

.7509

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
2011-07-03	KC @ COL Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	5	11
2019-04-28	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	11
2009-08-02	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	4	10
2014-05-20	TOR @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	2	9
2016-06-22	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	4	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.

Honors

1× All-Star Game MVP1× 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.