MLB / Players

Rod Carew

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 1, 1945 · Gatun, CZ, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1967

Final gameOctober 5, 1985

Seasons19 (1967–1985)

Minnesota Twins 1967–1978; California Angels 1979–1985

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

127

7.4

518

8.8

443

4.4

124

19.9

9.6

38.2

6.6

RBI

7.4

70.6

84.6

35.3

41.9

.280

67.6

OBP

.371

84.6

SLG

.345

OPS

.717

33.1

wRC+

102.2

40.4

OPS+

99.7

35.3

wOBA

.329

37.5

sWAR

0.9

13.2

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

134.9

93.8

OPS+

131.7

91.4

sWAR

70.1

99.7

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
1967	137	561	514	66	150	22	7	8	51	37	91	5	9	.292	.341	.409	.750	116.9	114.7	.344	3.3
1968	127	492	461	46	126	27	2	1	42	26	71	12	4	.273	.312	.347	.659	97.4	96.7	.308	1.8
1969	123	504	458	79	152	30	4	8	56	37	72	19	8	.332	.386	.467	.853	143.3	137.5	.394	4.6
1970	51	204	191	27	70	12	3	4	28	11	28	4	6	.366	.407	.524	.930	161.7	154.7	.422	2.3
1971	147	632	577	88	177	16	10	2	48	45	81	6	7	.307	.356	.380	.736	111.9	107.9	.345	3.3
1972	142	591	535	61	170	21	6	0	51	43	60	12	6	.318	.369	.379	.749	122.7	119.3	.350	3.9
1973	149	657	580	98	203	30	11	6	62	62	55	41	16	.350	.411	.471	.881	147.9	144.9	.402	6.2
1974	153	690	599	86	218	30	5	3	55	74	49	38	16	.364	.433	.446	.879	157.3	150.6	.408	7.2
1975	143	617	535	89	192	24	4	14	80	64	40	35	9	.359	.421	.497	.919	155.6	157.7	.411	6.1
1976	156	687	605	97	200	29	12	9	90	67	52	49	22	.331	.395	.463	.858	149.6	148.9	.393	4.9
1977	155	694	616	128	239	38	16	14	100	69	55	23	13	.388	.449	.570	1.019	179.1	177.7	.446	7.7
1978	152	651	564	85	188	26	10	5	70	78	62	27	7	.333	.411	.441	.853	139.4	139.1	.385	3.9
1979	110	493	409	78	130	15	3	3	44	73	46	18	8	.318	.419	.391	.810	129.3	124.1	.375	2.5
1980	144	612	540	74	179	34	7	3	59	59	38	23	15	.331	.396	.437	.833	134.8	132.1	.379	3.4
1981	93	421	364	57	111	17	1	2	21	45	45	16	9	.305	.380	.374	.753	121.5	119.2	.350	1.6
1982	138	612	523	88	167	25	5	3	44	67	49	10	17	.319	.396	.403	.799	126.1	121.7	.365	2.8
1983	129	536	472	66	160	24	2	2	44	57	48	6	7	.339	.409	.411	.820	131.4	128.7	.372	2.8
1984	93	378	329	42	97	8	1	3	31	40	39	4	3	.295	.367	.353	.720	106.7	102.0	.335	0.9
1985	127	518	443	69	124	17	3	2	39	64	47	5	5	.280	.371	.345	.717	102.2	99.7	.329	0.9

Career totals

2,469

68th-most career G

10,550

54th-most career PA

9,315

57th-most career AB

1,424

87th-most career R

3,053

28th-most career H

445

116th-most career 2B

112

122nd-most career 3B

RBI

1,015

293rd-most career RBI

1,018

118th-most career BB

1,028

369th-most career SO

353

109th-most career SB

.3278

44th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3930

100th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4292

OPS

.8222

332nd-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1970-05-20	MIN @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1977-05-08	MIN @ TOR Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	0	1	0	9
1975-06-05	NYY @ MIN Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1977-09-03	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1977-06-26	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	5	4	1	0	1	6	1	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

Hall of Fame, 1991 (BBWAA)

1× Rookie of the Year1× Most Valuable Player18× 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.