Shin-Soo Choo

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 205 lb

BornJuly 13, 1982 · Busan, Busan, South Korea

MLB debutApril 21, 2005

Final gameSeptember 27, 2020

Seasons16 (2005–2020)

Seattle Mariners 2005; Cleveland Indians 2006; Seattle Mariners 2006; Cleveland Indians 2007–2012; Cincinnati Reds 2013; Texas Rangers 2014–2020

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified batters

151

64.9

660

77.6

563

66.4

67.2

149

53.7

56.7

36.6

46.3

RBI

15.7

85.1

165

7.5

80.6

66.4

.265

38.8

OBP

.371

79.9

SLG

.455

39.6

OPS

.826

52.2

wRC+

112.6

OPS+

109.5

45.5

wOBA

.354

58.2

sWAR

2.1

38.8

of 135 qualified 2019 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.9

85.8

OPS+

121.4

81.4

sWAR

37.7

97.6

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	10	21	18	1	1	0	0	0	1	3	4	0	0	.056	.190	.056	.246	-19.6	-27.9	.146	-0.2
2006	49	179	157	23	44	12	3	3	22	18	50	5	3	.280	.360	.452	.812	110.1	109.8	.354	0.6
2007	6	20	17	5	5	0	0	0	5	2	5	0	1	.294	.350	.294	.644	59.2	72.2	.277	-0.1
2008	94	370	317	68	98	28	3	14	66	44	78	4	3	.309	.397	.549	.946	149.9	150.0	.410	3.0
2009	156	685	583	87	175	38	6	20	86	78	151	21	2	.300	.394	.489	.883	136.5	134.8	.386	4.6
2010	144	646	550	81	165	31	2	22	90	83	118	22	7	.300	.401	.484	.885	147.1	145.4	.391	5.1
2011	85	358	313	37	81	11	3	8	36	36	78	12	5	.259	.344	.390	.733	105.9	104.5	.328	1.1
2012	155	686	598	88	169	43	2	16	67	73	150	21	7	.283	.373	.441	.815	132.1	127.1	.362	4.4
2013	154	712	569	107	162	34	2	21	54	112	133	20	11	.285	.423	.462	.885	156.6	145.6	.401	7.5
2014	123	529	455	58	110	19	1	13	40	58	131	3	4	.242	.340	.374	.714	104.5	101.0	.326	1.2
2015	149	653	555	94	153	32	3	22	82	76	147	4	2	.276	.375	.463	.838	130.3	125.1	.367	4.0
2016	48	210	178	27	43	7	0	7	17	25	46	6	3	.242	.357	.399	.756	103.7	99.1	.336	0.6
2017	149	636	544	96	142	20	1	22	78	77	134	12	3	.261	.357	.423	.780	103.0	100.0	.341	1.3
2018	146	665	560	83	148	30	1	21	62	92	156	6	1	.264	.377	.434	.810	117.3	112.2	.358	2.4
2019	151	660	563	93	149	31	2	24	61	78	165	15	1	.265	.371	.455	.826	112.6	109.5	.354	2.1
2020	33	127	110	13	26	3	0	5	15	13	33	6	2	.236	.323	.400	.723	93.3	94.9	.313	0.1

Career totals

1,652

7,157

426th-most career PA

6,087

490th-most career AB

961

405th-most career R

1,671

339

349th-most career 2B

218

330th-most career HR

RBI

782

868

204th-most career BB

1,579

59th-most career SO

157

.2745

OBP

.3765

219th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4472

OPS

.8237

319th-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	TB
2010-09-17	CLE @ KC Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	3	7	13
2009-07-03	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	7	11
2015-07-21	TEX @ COL Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	3	10
2013-05-15	CIN @ MIA Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	2	10
2008-09-19	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	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× 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.