Victor Martinez

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 235 lb

BornDecember 23, 1978 · Ciudad Bolivar, Bolívar, Venezuela

MLB debutSeptember 10, 2002

Final gameSeptember 22, 2018

Seasons16 (2002–2018)

Cleveland Indians 2002–2008; Boston Red Sox 2009; Cleveland Indians 2009; Boston Red Sox 2010; Detroit Tigers 2011; Detroit Tigers 2013–2018

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified batters

133

10.8

508

2.9

467

7.2

117

9.4

15.1

7.2

RBI

13.7

14.4

99.3

86.3

.251

31.7

OBP

.297

10.8

SLG

.353

4.3

OPS

.651

3.6

wRC+

71.6

2.2

OPS+

75.7

2.2

wOBA

.282

2.2

sWAR

-1.5

0.7

of 140 qualified 2018 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.6

74.2

OPS+

118.2

76.6

sWAR

39.5

97.9

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
2002	12	36	32	2	9	1	0	1	5	3	2	0	0	.281	.333	.406	.740	96.2	96.7	.325	0.2
2003	49	174	159	15	46	4	0	1	16	13	21	1	1	.289	.345	.333	.678	85.8	82.6	.310	0.6
2004	141	591	520	77	147	38	1	23	108	60	69	0	1	.283	.359	.492	.851	120.2	123.7	.364	4.4
2005	147	622	547	73	167	33	0	20	80	63	78	0	1	.305	.378	.475	.853	128.1	129.0	.369	5.4
2006	153	652	572	82	181	37	0	16	93	71	78	0	0	.316	.391	.465	.856	123.1	121.9	.375	5.0
2007	147	645	562	78	169	40	0	25	114	62	76	0	0	.301	.374	.505	.879	125.5	128.9	.379	4.9
2008	73	294	266	30	74	17	0	2	35	24	32	0	0	.278	.337	.365	.701	86.0	87.9	.313	0.8
2009	155	672	588	88	178	33	1	23	108	75	74	1	0	.303	.381	.480	.861	128.2	126.1	.377	4.8
2010	127	538	493	64	149	32	1	20	79	40	52	1	0	.302	.351	.493	.844	123.5	123.9	.367	4.2
2011	145	595	540	76	178	40	0	12	103	46	51	1	0	.330	.380	.470	.850	132.3	131.4	.371	3.2
2013	159	668	605	68	182	36	0	14	83	54	62	0	2	.301	.355	.430	.785	112.6	113.9	.342	1.5
2014	151	641	561	87	188	33	0	32	103	70	42	3	2	.335	.409	.565	.974	169.0	173.2	.413	5.6
2015	120	485	440	39	108	20	0	11	64	31	52	0	0	.245	.301	.366	.667	78.7	84.2	.287	-0.9
2016	154	610	553	65	160	22	0	27	86	50	90	0	0	.289	.351	.476	.826	119.6	120.4	.351	1.9
2017	107	435	392	38	100	16	0	10	47	36	63	0	0	.255	.324	.372	.697	85.1	85.4	.305	-0.5
2018	133	508	467	32	117	21	0	9	54	32	49	0	0	.251	.297	.353	.651	71.6	75.7	.282	-1.5

Career totals

1,973

283rd-most career G

8,166

267th-most career PA

7,297

251st-most career AB

914

461st-most career R

2,153

208th-most career H

423

157th-most career 2B

246

265th-most career HR

RBI

1,178

173rd-most career RBI

730

343rd-most career BB

891

.2951

304th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3595

495th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4550

435th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8145

394th-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
2004-07-16	CLE @ SEA Gameday	5	3	5	0	3	7	1	14
2016-06-16	DET @ KC Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	3	0	12
2006-07-04	NYY @ CLE Gameday	6	2	5	1	1	3	0	9
2010-06-01	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	2	5	4	0	2	0	9
2006-06-10	CLE @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3	0	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

2× Silver Slugger5× 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.