MLB / Players

Starlin Castro

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 218 lb

BornMarch 24, 1990 · Monte Cristi, Monte Cristi, D.R.

MLB debutMay 7, 2010

Final gameJuly 11, 2021

Seasons12 (2010–2021)

Chicago Cubs 2010–2015; New York Yankees 2016–2017; Miami Marlins 2018–2019; Washington Nationals 2020–2021

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified batters

162

676

85.1

636

95.5

17.9

172

82.8

56.7

73.1

37.3

RBI

61.9

111

60.4

14.9

.270

45.5

OBP

.300

4.5

SLG

.436

29.1

OPS

.736

15.7

wRC+

89.5

11.9

OPS+

92.2

19.4

wOBA

.310

13.4

sWAR

1.6

23.1

of 135 qualified 2019 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.2

34.1

OPS+

97.5

36.6

sWAR

24.8

95.3

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
2010	125	506	463	53	139	31	5	3	41	29	71	10	8	.300	.347	.408	.755	98.7	100.4	.334	2.2
2011	158	715	674	91	207	36	9	10	66	35	96	22	9	.307	.341	.432	.773	111.4	110.0	.345	4.3
2012	162	691	646	78	183	29	12	14	78	36	100	25	13	.283	.323	.430	.753	99.7	101.1	.329	3.1
2013	161	705	666	59	163	34	2	10	44	30	129	9	6	.245	.284	.347	.631	70.3	73.2	.285	0.7
2014	134	569	528	58	154	33	1	14	65	35	100	4	4	.292	.339	.438	.777	117.0	115.9	.344	3.8
2015	151	578	547	52	145	23	2	11	69	21	91	5	5	.265	.296	.375	.671	80.4	85.7	.293	1.2
2016	151	610	577	63	156	29	1	21	70	24	118	4	0	.270	.300	.433	.734	92.9	95.0	.313	1.9
2017	112	473	443	66	133	18	1	16	63	23	93	2	0	.300	.338	.454	.792	107.9	107.8	.339	2.3
2018	154	647	593	76	165	32	2	12	54	48	124	6	4	.278	.329	.400	.729	100.2	100.6	.321	2.4
2019	162	676	636	68	172	31	4	22	86	28	111	2	2	.270	.300	.436	.736	89.5	92.2	.310	1.6
2020	16	63	60	9	16	3	1	2	4	3	13	0	0	.267	.302	.450	.752	98.9	100.1	.323	0.2
2021	87	345	315	25	89	20	0	3	38	26	62	0	1	.283	.333	.375	.708	93.4	93.5	.313	1.0

Career totals

1,573

6,578

6,148

475th-most career AB

698

1,722

468th-most career H

319

420th-most career 2B

138

RBI

678

338

1,108

300th-most career SO

.2801

OBP

.3193

SLG

.4123

OPS

.7316

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
2019-09-04	MIA @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	3	1	2	0	10
2015-09-18	STL @ CHC Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	6	1	9
2014-04-08	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
2014-04-27	CHC @ MIL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9
2016-04-06	HOU @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	5	0	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

4× 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.