MLB / Players

Nomar Garciaparra

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornJuly 23, 1973 · Whittier, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 31, 1996

Final gameOctober 4, 2009

Seasons14 (1996–2009)

Boston Red Sox 1996–2004; Chicago Cubs 2004–2005; Los Angeles Dodgers 2006–2008; Oakland Athletics 2009

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified batters

122

0.6

523

9.3

469

13.7

42.2

142

30.4

50.3

38.5

54.7

RBI

69.6

24.8

100

25.5

83.2

.303

81.4

OBP

.367

68.9

SLG

.505

73.9

OPS

.872

wRC+

120.4

67.7

OPS+

121.4

68.9

wOBA

.374

68.9

sWAR

2.0

38.5

of 162 qualified 2006 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.2

85.2

OPS+

125.0

85.7

sWAR

41.4

98.1

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	24	93	87	11	21	2	3	4	16	4	14	5	0	.241	.272	.471	.743	77.7	82.1	.317	0.1
1997	153	734	684	122	209	44	11	30	98	35	92	22	9	.306	.342	.534	.875	122.2	123.2	.377	5.2
1998	143	652	604	111	195	37	8	35	122	33	62	12	6	.323	.362	.584	.946	140.0	140.8	.403	6.1
1999	135	595	532	103	190	42	4	27	104	51	39	14	3	.357	.418	.603	1.022	156.4	156.8	.437	6.7
2000	140	599	529	104	197	51	3	21	96	61	50	5	2	.372	.434	.599	1.033	152.2	156.5	.436	6.4
2001	21	91	83	13	24	3	0	4	8	7	9	0	1	.289	.352	.470	.822	117.0	114.4	.360	0.6
2002	156	693	635	101	197	56	5	24	120	41	63	5	2	.310	.352	.528	.880	126.5	127.8	.375	5.4
2003	156	719	658	120	198	37	13	28	105	39	61	19	5	.301	.345	.524	.870	122.5	122.8	.372	5.2
2004	81	354	321	52	99	21	3	9	41	24	30	4	1	.308	.365	.477	.842	117.1	115.4	.368	2.3
2005	62	247	230	28	65	12	0	9	30	12	24	0	0	.283	.320	.452	.772	97.0	97.9	.338	0.9
2006	122	523	469	82	142	31	2	20	93	42	30	3	0	.303	.367	.505	.872	120.4	121.4	.374	2.0
2007	121	466	431	39	122	17	0	7	59	31	41	3	1	.283	.328	.371	.700	79.3	81.8	.310	-0.2
2008	55	181	163	24	43	9	0	8	28	15	11	1	1	.264	.326	.466	.792	105.8	108.6	.343	0.8
2009	65	169	160	17	45	8	0	3	16	8	28	2	0	.281	.314	.388	.701	82.6	85.4	.307	-0.2

Career totals

1,434

6,116

5,586

927

449th-most career R

1,747

453rd-most career H

370

268th-most career 2B

229

306th-most career HR

RBI

936

375th-most career RBI

403

554

.3127

93rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3615

443rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5206

66th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8821

102nd-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1999-05-10	SEA @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	10	1	12
2002-07-23	TB @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	8	1	12
2002-08-04	BOS @ TEX Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	3	0	11
1998-07-16	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	3	4	2	1	5	0	9
1997-08-05	BOS @ TEX Gameday	7	4	4	2	1	3	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

1× Rookie of the Year1× 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.