MLB / Players

Michael Cuddyer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 220 lb

BornMarch 27, 1979 · Norfolk, VA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 2001

Final gameOctober 3, 2015

Seasons15 (2001–2015)

Minnesota Twins 2001–2011; Colorado Rockies 2012–2014; New York Mets 2015

Percentile snapshot

2013 season — qualified batters

130

9.4

540

22.3

489

51.1

162

68.3

56.8

57.6

RBI

77.7

38.8

100

49.6

66.2

36.7

.331

99.3

OBP

.389

90.6

SLG

.530

94.2

OPS

.919

94.2

wRC+

141.0

87.1

OPS+

133.8

84.2

wOBA

.402

sWAR

3.7

74.1

of 140 qualified 2013 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.9

67.4

OPS+

112.0

66.4

sWAR

23.3

94.8

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
2001	8	20	18	1	4	2	0	0	1	2	6	1	0	.222	.300	.333	.633	68.2	66.2	.288	-0.1
2002	41	123	112	12	29	7	0	4	13	8	30	2	0	.259	.311	.429	.740	94.6	94.7	.324	0.1
2003	35	114	102	14	25	1	3	4	8	12	19	1	1	.245	.325	.431	.756	99.1	96.8	.334	0.2
2004	115	382	339	49	89	22	1	12	45	37	74	5	5	.263	.339	.440	.779	101.2	100.3	.342	1.3
2005	126	470	422	55	111	25	3	12	42	41	93	3	4	.263	.330	.422	.752	97.5	98.7	.328	1.5
2006	150	635	557	102	158	41	5	24	109	62	130	6	0	.284	.362	.504	.867	123.6	123.9	.373	3.3
2007	144	623	547	87	151	28	5	16	81	64	107	5	0	.276	.356	.433	.790	113.6	111.5	.354	2.5
2008	71	279	249	30	62	13	4	3	36	25	40	5	1	.249	.330	.369	.699	87.6	88.1	.314	0.1
2009	153	650	588	93	162	34	7	32	94	54	118	6	1	.276	.342	.520	.862	123.6	124.0	.370	3.3
2010	157	675	609	93	165	37	5	14	81	58	93	7	3	.271	.336	.417	.753	104.2	105.2	.334	1.6
2011	139	584	529	70	150	29	2	20	70	48	95	11	1	.284	.346	.459	.805	121.5	120.4	.353	2.8
2012	101	394	358	53	93	30	2	16	58	32	78	8	3	.260	.317	.489	.806	100.0	100.6	.348	0.7
2013	130	540	489	74	162	31	3	20	84	46	100	10	3	.331	.389	.530	.919	141.0	133.8	.402	3.7
2014	49	205	190	32	63	15	1	10	31	14	30	3	0	.332	.376	.579	.955	155.6	145.8	.416	1.8
2015	117	408	379	44	98	18	1	10	41	24	88	2	0	.259	.309	.391	.699	94.6	94.2	.312	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2011	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	1.0	0.00	3.000	0.00	6.06	149.8	—	2.8

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,536

6,102

5,488

809

1,522

333

370th-most career 2B

197

396th-most career HR

RBI

794

527

1,101

308th-most career SO

.2773

OBP

.3440

SLG

.4610

381st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8050

454th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

0.00

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
2009-08-09	MIN @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	0	11
2012-06-13	ATH @ COL Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	3	1	11
2009-05-22	MIL @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	5	0	10
2005-09-21	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	4	3	0	1	4	1	10
2014-08-17	CIN @ COL Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2011-07-25	MIN @ TEX Gameday	1.0	2	0	0	1	0	0

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 Slugger2× 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.