MLB / Players

Paul Konerko

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 220 lb

BornMarch 5, 1976 · Providence, RI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1997

Final gameSeptember 28, 2014

Seasons18 (1997–2014)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1997; Cincinnati Reds 1998; Los Angeles Dodgers 1998; Chicago White Sox 1999–2014

Percentile snapshot

2013 season — qualified batters

126

4.3

520

10.8

467

12.9

0.7

114

6.5

3.6

23.7

RBI

24.5

84.9

76.3

.244

14.4

OBP

.313

22.3

SLG

.355

6.5

OPS

.669

7.2

wRC+

81.8

6.5

OPS+

82.0

6.5

wOBA

.301

7.2

sWAR

-0.6

2.2

of 140 qualified 2013 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.3

76.7

OPS+

118.5

sWAR

34.2

97.2

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
1997	6	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.143	.250	.143	.393	17.0	10.6	.206	-0.1
1998	75	239	217	21	47	4	0	7	29	16	40	0	1	.217	.276	.332	.608	60.4	62.0	.276	-0.7
1999	142	564	513	71	151	31	4	24	81	45	68	1	0	.294	.352	.511	.862	117.2	117.1	.375	1.9
2000	143	586	524	84	156	31	1	21	97	47	72	1	0	.298	.363	.481	.844	111.6	110.5	.370	1.8
2001	156	650	582	92	164	35	0	32	99	54	89	1	0	.282	.349	.507	.856	118.4	119.1	.367	2.4
2002	151	630	570	81	173	30	0	27	104	44	72	0	0	.304	.359	.498	.857	124.1	123.5	.370	2.8
2003	137	495	444	49	104	19	0	18	65	43	50	0	0	.234	.305	.399	.704	84.1	87.2	.305	-0.4
2004	155	643	563	84	156	22	0	41	117	69	107	1	0	.277	.359	.535	.894	126.3	127.0	.382	3.0
2005	158	664	575	98	163	24	0	40	100	81	109	0	0	.283	.375	.534	.909	135.1	135.2	.388	3.8
2006	152	643	566	97	177	30	0	35	113	60	104	1	0	.313	.381	.551	.932	135.8	135.1	.399	3.9
2007	151	636	549	71	142	34	0	31	90	78	102	0	1	.259	.351	.490	.841	113.9	115.9	.365	2.0
2008	122	514	438	59	105	19	1	22	62	65	80	2	0	.240	.344	.438	.783	104.6	103.5	.348	1.1
2009	152	621	546	75	151	30	1	28	88	58	89	1	0	.277	.353	.489	.842	114.5	114.8	.364	1.9
2010	149	631	548	89	171	30	1	39	111	72	110	0	1	.312	.393	.584	.977	161.8	160.4	.420	5.5
2011	149	639	543	69	163	25	0	31	105	77	89	1	1	.300	.388	.517	.906	138.9	141.4	.386	3.7
2012	144	598	533	66	159	22	0	26	75	56	83	0	0	.298	.371	.486	.857	133.6	130.8	.372	3.2
2013	126	520	467	41	114	16	0	12	54	45	74	0	0	.244	.313	.355	.669	81.8	82.0	.301	-0.6
2014	81	224	208	15	43	8	0	5	22	10	51	0	0	.207	.254	.317	.572	58.9	62.1	.258	-1.0

Career totals

2,349

103rd-most career G

9,505

121st-most career PA

8,393

117th-most career AB

1,162

223rd-most career R

2,340

143rd-most career H

410

177th-most career 2B

439

46th-most career HR

RBI

1,412

75th-most career RBI

921

171st-most career BB

1,391

124th-most career SO

.2788

OBP

.3541

SLG

.4865

182nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8406

237th-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
2009-07-07	CLE @ CWS Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	7	0	12
2002-06-28	CHC @ CWS Gameday	4	4	4	1	2	4	0	11
2004-09-17	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	4	1	10
2004-05-20	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	2	0	10
2003-08-26	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-04-17	SEA @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2000-09-10	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	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× ALCS MVP6× 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.