MLB / Players

Ryan Zimmerman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb

BornSeptember 28, 1984 · Washington, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 2005

Final gameOctober 3, 2021

Seasons16 (2005–2021)

Washington Nationals 2005–2019; Washington Nationals 2021

Percentile snapshot

2017 season — qualified batters

144

34.3

576

37.8

524

40.6

73.4

159

72.7

67.8

88.8

RBI

108

93.7

126

34.3

8.4

.303

85.3

OBP

.358

69.9

SLG

.573

93.7

OPS

.930

88.8

wRC+

137.8

OPS+

135.9

83.9

wOBA

.392

88.8

sWAR

3.4

67.1

of 144 qualified 2017 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.0

73.3

OPS+

115.7

72.7

sWAR

36.3

97.5

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
2005	20	62	58	6	23	10	0	0	6	3	12	0	0	.397	.419	.569	.988	166.3	161.7	.430	0.8
2006	157	682	614	84	176	47	3	20	110	61	120	11	8	.287	.351	.471	.822	112.8	113.1	.356	3.5
2007	162	722	653	99	174	43	5	24	91	61	125	4	1	.266	.330	.458	.788	103.4	103.5	.344	2.9
2008	106	466	428	51	121	24	1	14	51	31	71	1	1	.283	.333	.442	.774	102.9	102.7	.342	1.8
2009	157	693	610	110	178	37	3	33	106	72	119	2	0	.292	.364	.525	.888	130.8	131.6	.384	5.1
2010	142	603	525	85	161	32	0	25	85	69	98	4	1	.307	.388	.510	.899	144.1	141.5	.395	5.5
2011	101	440	395	52	114	21	2	12	49	41	73	3	1	.289	.355	.443	.798	121.1	119.4	.355	2.8
2012	145	641	578	93	163	36	1	25	95	57	116	5	2	.282	.346	.478	.824	121.4	121.6	.357	4.1
2013	147	633	568	84	156	26	2	26	79	60	133	6	0	.275	.344	.465	.809	124.8	121.3	.358	4.3
2014	61	240	214	26	60	19	1	5	38	22	37	0	0	.280	.342	.449	.790	121.6	119.1	.351	1.2
2015	95	390	346	43	86	25	1	16	73	33	79	1	0	.249	.308	.465	.773	106.7	108.2	.334	0.8
2016	115	467	427	60	93	18	1	15	46	29	104	4	1	.218	.272	.370	.642	65.6	69.1	.281	-1.4
2017	144	576	524	90	159	33	0	36	108	44	126	1	0	.303	.358	.573	.930	137.8	135.9	.392	3.4
2018	85	323	288	33	76	21	2	13	51	30	55	1	1	.264	.337	.486	.824	117.4	115.9	.357	1.1
2019	52	190	171	20	44	9	0	6	27	17	39	0	0	.257	.321	.415	.736	88.4	88.1	.317	0.0
2021	110	273	255	27	62	16	0	14	46	16	77	0	0	.243	.286	.471	.756	99.6	101.9	.322	0.4

Career totals

1,799

413th-most career G

7,401

380th-most career PA

6,654

368th-most career AB

963

403rd-most career R

1,846

376th-most career H

417

164th-most career 2B

284

193rd-most career HR

RBI

1,061

258th-most career RBI

646

461st-most career BB

1,384

128th-most career SO

.2774

OBP

.3409

SLG

.4748

266th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8157

381st-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
2017-09-29	PIT @ WSH Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	2	4	0	12
2013-05-29	WSH @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	0	12
2017-08-09	MIA @ WSH Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	5	1	11
2018-04-18	WSH @ NYM Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
2009-05-11	WSH @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	0	10

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

2× Silver Slugger1× Gold Glove2× 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.