MLB / Players

Paul Goldschmidt

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 220 lb

BornSeptember 10, 1987 · Wilmington, DE, USA

MLB debutAugust 1, 2011

Seasons15 (2011–2025)

Arizona Diamondbacks 2011–2018; St. Louis Cardinals 2019–2024; New York Yankees 2025

Percentile snapshot

2025 season — qualified batters

146

45.8

531

489

21.1

52.8

134

70.4

23.9

9.2

RBI

2.8

21.8

100

69.7

30.3

.274

76.8

OBP

.328

47.2

SLG

.403

OPS

.731

35.2

wRC+

102.2

OPS+

103.7

33.8

wOBA

.317

28.2

sWAR

0.8

of 143 qualified 2025 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

137.2

OPS+

136.4

94.1

sWAR

52.2

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
2011	48	177	156	28	39	9	1	8	26	20	53	4	0	.250	.333	.474	.808	118.5	114.9	.359	0.6
2012	145	587	514	82	147	43	1	20	82	60	130	18	3	.286	.359	.490	.850	126.2	124.4	.369	2.6
2013	160	709	602	103	182	36	3	36	125	99	145	15	7	.302	.401	.551	.952	159.9	157.2	.409	5.9
2014	109	475	406	75	122	39	1	19	69	64	110	9	3	.300	.396	.542	.938	161.3	157.7	.406	4.0
2015	159	694	567	103	182	38	2	33	110	118	151	21	5	.321	.435	.570	1.005	167.3	165.9	.425	6.3
2016	158	704	579	106	172	33	3	24	95	110	150	32	5	.297	.411	.489	.899	134.7	132.1	.389	3.9
2017	155	664	558	117	166	34	3	36	120	94	147	18	5	.297	.404	.563	.966	143.2	142.2	.406	4.4
2018	158	689	593	95	172	35	5	33	83	90	173	7	4	.290	.389	.533	.922	145.9	143.4	.397	4.8
2019	161	680	597	97	155	25	1	34	97	78	166	3	1	.260	.346	.476	.821	115.0	113.7	.350	2.3
2020	58	230	191	31	58	13	0	6	21	37	43	1	0	.304	.417	.466	.883	147.3	143.8	.391	1.7
2021	158	679	603	102	177	36	2	31	99	67	136	12	0	.294	.365	.514	.879	139.3	139.2	.378	4.3
2022	151	649	561	106	178	41	0	35	115	79	141	7	0	.317	.404	.578	.981	178.0	177.2	.421	7.1
2023	154	686	593	89	159	31	0	25	80	87	161	11	2	.268	.363	.447	.810	120.7	120.1	.353	2.8
2024	154	650	599	70	147	33	1	22	65	47	173	11	0	.245	.302	.414	.716	97.2	98.1	.311	0.7
2025	146	531	489	76	134	31	1	10	45	36	100	5	1	.274	.328	.403	.731	102.2	103.7	.317	0.8
2026	102	370	336	44	85	12	1	18	50	29	85	1	0	.253	.316	.455	.772	—	—	—	—

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

2,074

211th-most career G

8,804

178th-most career PA

7,608

202nd-most career AB

1,280

140th-most career R

2,190

196th-most career H

477

87th-most career 2B

372

82nd-most career HR

RBI

1,232

146th-most career RBI

1,086

91st-most career BB

1,979

9th-most career SO

174

460th-most career SB

.2879

461st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3781

203rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5035

112th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8816

103rd-highest career OPS

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. 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
2019-03-29	STL @ MIL Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	5	1	13
2023-05-07	DET @ STL Gameday	5	4	4	0	3	4	0	13
2014-05-17	LAD @ AZ Gameday	5	5	4	2	2	6	1	12
2017-08-03	AZ @ CHC Gameday	4	4	3	0	3	6	1	12
2013-05-17	AZ @ MIA Gameday	5	4	4	1	2	4	0	11

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

5× Silver Slugger4× Gold Glove1× Most Valuable Player7× 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.