Tony Batista

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 9, 1973 · Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata, D.R.

MLB debutJune 3, 1996

Final gameSeptember 30, 2007

Seasons11 (1996–2007)

Oakland Athletics 1996–1997; Arizona Diamondbacks 1998–1999; Toronto Blue Jays 1999–2000; Baltimore Orioles 2001; Toronto Blue Jays 2001; Baltimore Orioles 2002–2003; Montreal Expos 2004; Minnesota Twins 2006; Washington Nationals 2007

Percentile snapshot

2004 season — qualified batters

157

82.5

650

63.8

606

146

34.4

41.9

35.6

82.5

RBI

110

90.6

3.1

73.8

18.1

.241

4.4

OBP

.272

0.6

SLG

.455

46.3

OPS

.728

13.8

wRC+

77.2

5.6

OPS+

83.4

wOBA

.308

6.3

sWAR

0.5

8.1

of 161 qualified 2004 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.1

23.1

OPS+

93.2

28.1

sWAR

12.3

89.1

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
1996	74	260	238	38	71	10	2	6	25	19	49	7	3	.298	.350	.433	.783	99.4	98.1	.348	0.9
1997	68	207	188	22	38	10	1	4	18	14	31	2	2	.202	.265	.330	.594	54.1	55.2	.269	-0.2
1998	106	318	293	46	80	16	1	18	41	18	52	1	1	.273	.318	.519	.836	114.4	116.2	.361	1.9
1999	142	573	519	77	144	30	1	31	100	38	96	4	0	.277	.330	.518	.848	107.8	111.2	.362	3.1
2000	154	664	620	96	163	32	2	41	114	35	121	5	4	.263	.307	.519	.827	99.9	102.8	.352	2.5
2001	156	622	579	70	138	27	6	25	87	32	113	5	2	.238	.280	.435	.715	85.0	88.3	.307	0.9
2002	161	682	615	90	150	36	1	31	87	50	107	5	4	.244	.309	.457	.766	103.0	107.1	.327	2.7
2003	161	670	631	76	148	20	1	26	99	28	102	4	3	.235	.270	.393	.663	68.7	73.1	.286	-0.1
2004	157	650	606	76	146	30	2	32	110	26	78	14	6	.241	.272	.455	.728	77.2	83.4	.308	0.5
2006	50	195	178	24	42	12	0	5	21	15	27	0	1	.236	.303	.388	.690	78.8	79.2	.305	0.2
2007	80	118	101	10	26	3	0	2	16	12	14	0	0	.257	.347	.347	.694	80.0	82.9	.309	-0.1

Career totals

1,309

4,959

4,568

625

1,146

226

221

322nd-most career HR

RBI

718

287

790

.2509

OBP

.2991

SLG

.4529

451st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7520

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	TB
2002-04-27	BAL @ KC Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	5	10
2000-04-19	LAA @ TOR Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	3	9
2000-04-03	KC @ TOR Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	9
2000-07-21	BAL @ TOR Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	9
1999-04-10	AZ @ ATL Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	4	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

2× 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.