MLB / Players

Rey Ordonez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornJanuary 11, 1971 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba

MLB debutApril 1, 1996

Final gameJuly 17, 2004

Seasons9 (1996–2004)

New York Mets 1996–2002; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2003; Chicago Cubs 2004

Percentile snapshot

2002 season — qualified batters

144

31.2

499

460

5.2

6.5

117

5.8

22.7

28.6

RBI

5.2

6.5

93.5

14.3

62.3

.254

22.1

OBP

.292

3.9

SLG

.324

1.3

OPS

.616

1.3

wRC+

55.9

1.9

OPS+

65.1

2.6

wOBA

.270

0.6

sWAR

-0.3

3.2

of 155 qualified 2002 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

52.7

0.3

OPS+

59.3

0.4

sWAR

-4.1

0.1

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	151	530	502	51	129	12	4	1	30	22	53	1	3	.257	.289	.303	.592	53.2	60.2	.261	-0.6
1997	120	391	356	35	77	5	3	1	33	18	36	11	5	.216	.255	.256	.510	30.9	36.9	.233	-1.4
1998	153	548	505	46	124	20	2	1	42	23	60	3	6	.246	.278	.299	.577	46.5	53.7	.256	-1.0
1999	154	588	520	49	134	24	2	1	60	49	59	8	4	.258	.319	.317	.636	61.4	65.7	.284	-0.2
2000	45	155	133	10	25	5	0	0	9	17	16	0	0	.188	.278	.226	.504	33.0	33.0	.238	-0.6
2001	149	505	461	31	114	24	4	3	44	34	43	3	2	.247	.299	.336	.635	59.1	68.6	.271	-0.2
2002	144	499	460	53	117	25	2	1	42	24	46	2	2	.254	.292	.324	.616	55.9	65.1	.270	-0.3
2003	34	124	117	14	37	11	0	3	22	2	12	0	2	.316	.328	.487	.815	111.1	112.8	.350	0.7
2004	23	67	61	2	10	3	0	1	5	2	14	0	0	.164	.190	.262	.453	6.3	16.0	.201	-0.4

Career totals

973

3,407

3,115

291

767

129

RBI

287

191

339

.2462

OBP

.2895

SLG

.3101

OPS

.5996

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	TB
1999-09-18	PHI @ NYM Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	4	8
2002-05-31	NYM @ MIA Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	7
2003-04-01	BOS @ TB Gameday	8	1	3	1	0	1	4	7
1998-09-15	NYM @ HOU Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	3	7
1996-08-07	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	0	3	6

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 Glove

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.