MLB / Players

Rafael Furcal

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 24, 1977 · Loma de Cabrera, Dajabón, D.R.

MLB debutApril 4, 2000

Final gameJune 21, 2014

Seasons14 (2000–2014)

Atlanta Braves 2000–2005; Los Angeles Dodgers 2006–2011; St. Louis Cardinals 2011–2012; Miami Marlins 2014

Percentile snapshot

2012 season — qualified batters

121

2.8

531

477

12.6

32.2

126

4.9

50.3

4.2

RBI

9.8

32.9

95.1

55.2

39.2

.264

37.1

OBP

.325

33.6

SLG

.346

4.2

OPS

.671

9.8

wRC+

86.9

13.3

OPS+

85.7

13.3

wOBA

.304

15.4

sWAR

1.6

22.4

of 144 qualified 2012 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.3

40.3

OPS+

97.2

36.2

sWAR

30.9

96.7

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
2000	131	542	455	87	134	20	4	4	37	73	80	40	14	.295	.394	.382	.776	107.2	99.7	.359	2.8
2001	79	359	324	39	89	19	0	4	30	24	56	22	6	.275	.321	.370	.691	77.8	78.5	.307	0.6
2002	154	693	636	95	175	31	8	8	47	43	114	27	15	.275	.323	.387	.710	88.6	87.5	.321	2.1
2003	156	734	664	130	194	35	10	15	61	60	76	25	2	.292	.352	.443	.794	109.0	107.2	.352	4.1
2004	143	632	563	103	157	24	5	14	59	58	71	29	6	.279	.344	.414	.758	96.9	96.0	.336	2.5
2005	154	689	616	100	175	31	11	12	58	62	78	46	10	.284	.348	.429	.777	104.4	102.9	.345	3.4
2006	159	736	654	113	196	32	9	15	63	73	98	37	13	.300	.369	.445	.814	111.8	108.4	.361	4.2
2007	138	642	581	87	157	23	4	6	47	55	68	25	6	.270	.333	.355	.687	80.2	79.2	.311	1.2
2008	36	164	143	34	51	12	2	5	16	20	17	8	3	.357	.439	.573	1.012	175.2	168.0	.446	2.2
2009	150	680	613	92	165	28	5	9	47	61	89	12	6	.269	.335	.375	.711	93.9	92.2	.323	2.5
2010	97	428	383	66	115	23	7	8	43	40	60	22	4	.300	.366	.460	.826	126.1	125.2	.365	3.3
2011	87	369	333	44	77	15	0	8	28	28	39	9	5	.231	.298	.348	.646	80.8	79.8	.296	0.8
2012	121	531	477	69	126	18	3	5	49	44	57	12	4	.264	.325	.346	.671	86.9	85.7	.304	1.6
2014	9	37	35	4	6	0	1	0	2	2	7	0	0	.171	.216	.229	.445	16.5	25.4	.207	-0.2

Career totals

1,614

7,236

409th-most career PA

6,477

406th-most career AB

1,063

302nd-most career R

1,817

397th-most career H

311

445th-most career 2B

405th-most career 3B

113

RBI

587

643

464th-most career BB

910

499th-most career SO

314

160th-most career SB

.2805

OBP

.3456

SLG

.4022

OPS

.7478

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
2005-07-31	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	2	0	10
2005-07-10	MIL @ ATL Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	1	0	9
2009-09-24	LAD @ WSH Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	1	0	9
2004-07-09	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	6	0	9
2003-05-28	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	4	3	0	2	2	1	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 Year3× 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.