Sammy Sosa

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornNovember 12, 1968 · San Pedro de Macoris, San Pedro de Macorís, D.R.

MLB debutJune 16, 1989

Final gameSeptember 29, 2007

Seasons18 (1989–2007)

Chicago White Sox 1989; Texas Rangers 1989; Chicago White Sox 1990–1991; Chicago Cubs 1992–2004; Baltimore Orioles 2005; Texas Rangers 2007

Percentile snapshot

2004 season — qualified batters

126

3.8

539

12.5

478

13.1

21.9

121

7.5

88.1

RBI

53.8

51.9

133

10.6

89.4

.253

11.3

OBP

.332

24.4

SLG

.517

79.4

OPS

.849

65.6

wRC+

115.4

62.5

OPS+

115.9

64.4

wOBA

.364

61.3

sWAR

2.2

of 161 qualified 2004 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

125.1

85.9

OPS+

128.0

88.6

sWAR

51.7

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
1989	58	203	183	27	47	8	0	4	13	11	47	7	5	.257	.303	.366	.669	85.5	89.9	.304	0.2
1990	153	579	532	72	124	26	10	15	70	33	150	32	16	.233	.282	.404	.687	87.6	92.1	.307	0.4
1991	116	338	316	39	64	10	1	10	33	14	98	13	6	.203	.240	.335	.576	53.2	59.0	.258	-1.3
1992	67	291	262	41	68	7	2	8	25	19	63	15	7	.260	.317	.393	.710	98.7	97.8	.327	1.1
1993	159	641	598	92	156	25	5	33	93	38	135	36	11	.261	.309	.485	.794	108.1	110.5	.347	2.3
1994	105	458	426	59	128	17	6	25	70	25	92	22	13	.300	.339	.545	.884	127.2	127.1	.382	2.6
1995	144	629	564	89	151	17	3	36	119	58	134	34	7	.268	.340	.500	.840	116.9	120.0	.364	2.6
1996	124	541	498	84	136	21	2	40	100	34	134	18	5	.273	.323	.564	.888	123.2	126.7	.378	2.7
1997	162	694	642	90	161	31	4	36	119	45	174	22	12	.251	.300	.480	.779	92.9	98.5	.335	0.9
1998	159	722	643	134	198	20	0	66	158	73	171	18	9	.308	.377	.647	1.024	156.9	159.1	.430	6.7
1999	162	712	625	114	180	24	2	63	141	78	171	7	8	.288	.367	.635	1.002	144.9	148.9	.420	5.7
2000	156	705	604	106	193	38	1	50	138	91	168	7	4	.320	.406	.634	1.040	156.0	161.9	.434	6.4
2001	160	711	577	146	189	34	5	64	160	116	153	0	2	.328	.437	.737	1.174	191.9	204.3	.471	9.3
2002	150	666	556	122	160	19	2	49	108	103	144	2	0	.288	.399	.594	.993	160.8	161.8	.425	6.4
2003	137	589	517	99	144	22	0	40	103	62	143	0	1	.279	.358	.553	.911	131.6	133.5	.388	3.6
2004	126	539	478	69	121	21	0	35	80	56	133	0	0	.253	.332	.517	.849	115.4	115.9	.364	2.2
2005	102	424	380	39	84	15	1	14	45	39	84	1	1	.221	.295	.376	.671	76.9	78.2	.295	-0.5
2007	114	454	412	53	104	24	1	21	92	34	112	0	0	.252	.311	.468	.779	96.8	99.9	.337	0.3

Career totals

2,354

101st-most career G

9,896

92nd-most career PA

8,813

87th-most career AB

1,475

79th-most career R

2,408

125th-most career H

379

251st-most career 2B

609

9th-most career HR

RBI

1,667

31st-most career RBI

929

167th-most career BB

2,306

4th-most career SO

234

274th-most career SB

.2732

OBP

.3438

SLG

.5338

46th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8776

114th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1993-05-04	COL @ CHC Gameday	6	3	5	1	2	5	0	12
2002-08-10	CHC @ COL Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	9	0	12
2001-08-22	MIL @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	6	1	12
1996-06-05	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	5	0	12
2001-09-23	CHC @ HOU Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	4	0	12

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

6× Silver Slugger1× Most Valuable Player7× 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.