Miguel Cairo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 225 lb

BornMay 4, 1974 · Anaco, Anzoátegui, Venezuela

MLB debutApril 17, 1996

Final gameOctober 3, 2012

Seasons17 (1996–2012)

Toronto Blue Jays 1996; Chicago Cubs 1997; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1998–2000; Chicago Cubs 2001; St. Louis Cardinals 2001–2003; New York Yankees 2004; New York Mets 2005; New York Yankees 2006–2007; St. Louis Cardinals 2007; Seattle Mariners 2008; Philadelphia Phillies 2009; Cincinnati Reds 2010–2012

Percentile snapshot

1999 season — qualified batters

120

1.9

508

2.5

465

10.2

137

24.2

1.9

68.2

3.8

RBI

1.9

5.1

96.2

76.4

26.1

.295

60.5

OBP

.335

22.3

SLG

.368

5.7

OPS

.703

5.7

wRC+

79.3

8.3

OPS+

79.2

6.4

wOBA

.317

7.6

sWAR

0.5

10.2

of 158 qualified 1999 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

76.2

6.8

OPS+

77.0

6.9

sWAR

1.6

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
1996	9	30	27	5	6	2	0	0	1	2	9	0	0	.222	.300	.296	.596	56.0	52.6	.279	-0.1
1997	16	32	29	7	7	1	0	0	1	2	3	0	0	.241	.313	.276	.588	56.7	54.6	.280	0.0
1998	150	558	515	49	138	26	5	5	46	24	44	19	8	.268	.307	.367	.674	73.3	74.2	.301	0.3
1999	120	508	465	61	137	15	5	3	36	24	46	22	7	.295	.335	.368	.703	79.3	79.2	.317	0.5
2000	119	417	375	49	98	18	2	1	34	29	34	28	7	.261	.314	.328	.642	65.3	64.7	.292	-0.3
2001	93	182	156	25	46	8	1	3	16	18	23	2	1	.295	.366	.417	.782	109.8	106.4	.348	0.9
2002	108	208	184	28	46	9	2	2	23	13	36	1	1	.250	.307	.353	.660	73.1	76.0	.297	-0.1
2003	92	290	261	41	64	15	2	5	32	13	30	4	1	.245	.289	.375	.665	71.0	75.1	.292	-0.1
2004	122	408	360	48	105	17	5	6	42	18	49	11	3	.292	.346	.417	.763	100.4	99.6	.337	1.6
2005	100	367	327	31	82	18	0	2	19	19	31	13	3	.251	.296	.324	.620	61.0	64.9	.279	-0.5
2006	81	244	222	28	53	12	3	0	30	13	31	13	1	.239	.280	.320	.600	53.1	55.3	.269	-0.6
2007	82	193	174	20	44	9	2	0	15	11	24	10	2	.253	.303	.328	.631	65.1	66.4	.285	-0.3
2008	108	250	221	34	55	14	2	0	23	18	32	5	2	.249	.316	.330	.646	77.0	74.7	.297	-0.4
2009	27	47	45	6	12	2	1	1	2	0	4	0	0	.267	.283	.422	.705	79.3	82.9	.310	0.1
2010	91	226	200	30	58	12	0	4	28	17	30	4	0	.290	.353	.410	.763	107.5	104.6	.344	0.9
2011	102	276	245	33	65	8	2	8	33	18	36	3	4	.265	.330	.412	.742	101.8	100.8	.332	1.1
2012	70	156	150	9	28	7	2	1	13	4	20	4	0	.187	.212	.280	.492	20.7	30.9	.218	-1.2

Career totals

1,490

4,392

3,956

504

1,044

193

RBI

394

243

482

139

.2639

OBP

.3137

SLG

.3610

OPS

.6747

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
1999-05-29	TB @ SEA Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	1	8
2011-08-13	SD @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
2003-06-17	STL @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	7
2009-10-04	MIA @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	1	7
2000-04-06	TB @ MIN Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	0	5	6

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.