Placido Polanco

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 10, 1975 · Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, D.R.

MLB debutJuly 3, 1998

Final gameSeptember 28, 2013

Seasons16 (1998–2013)

St. Louis Cardinals 1998–2001; Philadelphia Phillies 2002; St. Louis Cardinals 2002; Philadelphia Phillies 2003–2004; Detroit Tigers 2005; Philadelphia Phillies 2005; Detroit Tigers 2006–2009; Philadelphia Phillies 2010–2012; Miami Marlins 2013

Percentile snapshot

2011 season — qualified batters

122

2.1

523

13.2

469

11.8

2.1

130

25.7

4.2

RBI

18.8

29.9

97.9

25.7

92.4

.277

57.6

OBP

.335

45.1

SLG

.339

2.8

OPS

.674

11.1

wRC+

89.3

17.4

OPS+

87.3

13.2

wOBA

.311

20.1

sWAR

1.3

22.2

of 145 qualified 2011 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.1

33.9

OPS+

94.9

31.4

sWAR

25.9

95.6

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
1998	45	122	114	10	29	3	2	1	11	5	9	2	0	.254	.292	.342	.634	65.2	66.9	.287	0.0
1999	88	240	220	24	61	9	3	1	19	15	24	1	3	.277	.321	.359	.680	70.4	71.9	.305	0.0
2000	118	350	323	50	102	12	3	5	39	16	26	4	4	.316	.347	.418	.765	93.2	92.7	.340	1.1
2001	144	610	564	87	173	26	4	3	38	25	43	12	3	.307	.342	.383	.725	91.1	89.1	.324	1.7
2002	147	595	548	75	158	32	2	9	49	26	41	5	3	.288	.330	.403	.733	96.3	95.4	.330	2.0
2003	122	554	492	87	142	30	3	14	63	42	38	14	2	.289	.352	.447	.799	107.2	105.2	.354	2.5
2004	126	555	503	74	150	21	0	17	55	27	39	7	4	.298	.345	.441	.786	103.0	101.5	.347	2.2
2005	129	551	501	84	166	27	2	9	56	33	25	4	3	.331	.383	.447	.830	123.9	120.2	.368	3.7
2006	110	495	461	58	136	18	1	4	52	17	27	1	2	.295	.329	.364	.693	80.2	79.8	.310	0.7
2007	142	641	587	105	200	36	3	9	67	37	30	7	3	.341	.388	.458	.846	123.6	121.4	.377	4.3
2008	141	629	580	90	178	34	3	8	58	35	43	7	1	.307	.350	.417	.768	102.6	101.8	.342	2.6
2009	153	675	618	82	176	31	4	10	72	36	46	7	2	.285	.331	.396	.727	89.3	89.9	.322	1.7
2010	132	602	554	76	165	27	2	6	52	32	47	5	0	.298	.339	.386	.726	96.0	95.5	.327	1.9
2011	122	523	469	46	130	14	0	5	50	42	44	3	0	.277	.335	.339	.674	89.3	87.3	.311	1.3
2012	90	328	303	28	78	15	0	2	19	18	25	0	0	.257	.302	.327	.629	68.8	70.7	.284	0.0
2013	118	416	377	33	98	13	0	1	23	23	31	2	0	.260	.315	.302	.617	71.5	72.5	.285	0.2

Career totals

1,927

311th-most career G

7,886

311th-most career PA

7,214

268th-most career AB

1,009

342nd-most career R

2,142

216th-most career H

348

321st-most career 2B

104

RBI

723

429

538

.2969

268th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3426

SLG

.3973

OPS

.7399

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
2008-08-05	DET @ CWS Gameday	6	3	3	0	1	2	4	1	11
2007-07-27	DET @ LAA Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	1	1	0	9
2002-06-19	LAA @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
2005-06-04	AZ @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
2005-09-11	KC @ DET Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	1	2	0	8

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

3× Gold Glove1× ALCS MVP1× 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.