Vinny Castilla

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornJuly 4, 1967 · Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1991

Final gameSeptember 28, 2006

Seasons16 (1991–2006)

Atlanta Braves 1991–1992; Colorado Rockies 1993–1999; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2000; Houston Astros 2001; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2001; Atlanta Braves 2002–2003; Colorado Rockies 2004; Washington Nationals 2005; Colorado Rockies 2006; San Diego Padres 2006

Percentile snapshot

2005 season — qualified batters

142

29.1

549

20.9

494

0.7

125

13.5

70.9

11.5

25.7

RBI

34.5

30.4

61.5

31.1

54.7

.253

11.5

OBP

.319

16.2

SLG

.403

21.6

OPS

.722

18.2

wRC+

89.3

16.2

OPS+

92.0

18.9

wOBA

.318

17.6

sWAR

1.3

21.6

of 149 qualified 2005 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.1

24.8

OPS+

94.4

30.4

sWAR

19.8

93.4

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
1991	12	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-1.9	10.7	.185	0.0
1992	9	18	16	1	4	1	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	.250	.333	.313	.646	67.8	80.9	.286	0.0
1993	105	357	337	36	86	9	7	9	30	13	45	2	5	.255	.283	.404	.686	62.7	71.0	.300	0.0
1994	52	141	130	16	43	11	1	3	18	7	23	2	1	.331	.357	.500	.857	101.7	103.6	.371	0.6
1995	139	571	527	82	163	34	2	32	90	30	87	2	8	.309	.347	.564	.911	114.3	114.8	.393	3.1
1996	160	673	629	97	191	34	0	40	113	35	88	7	2	.304	.343	.548	.892	108.7	110.7	.384	3.2
1997	159	668	612	94	186	25	2	40	113	44	108	2	4	.304	.356	.547	.904	110.8	112.5	.389	3.4
1998	162	697	645	108	206	28	4	46	144	40	89	5	9	.319	.362	.589	.951	124.8	124.7	.406	4.7
1999	158	674	615	83	169	24	1	33	102	53	75	2	3	.275	.331	.478	.809	75.0	81.5	.349	0.3
2000	85	354	331	22	73	9	1	6	42	14	41	1	2	.221	.254	.308	.562	36.6	43.0	.246	-1.5
2001	146	581	538	69	140	34	1	25	91	35	108	1	4	.260	.308	.467	.775	91.6	93.2	.332	1.6
2002	143	578	543	56	126	23	2	12	61	22	69	4	1	.232	.268	.348	.616	55.7	62.1	.273	-1.0
2003	147	578	542	65	150	28	3	22	76	26	86	1	2	.277	.310	.461	.771	96.4	99.3	.333	1.9
2004	148	648	583	93	158	43	3	35	131	51	113	0	0	.271	.332	.535	.867	106.3	108.3	.368	2.9
2005	142	549	494	53	125	36	1	12	66	43	82	4	2	.253	.319	.403	.722	89.3	92.0	.318	1.3
2006	87	291	275	26	63	10	0	5	27	9	49	0	0	.229	.258	.320	.578	49.0	52.6	.256	-0.9

Career totals

1,854

363rd-most career G

7,384

383rd-most career PA

6,822

341st-most career AB

902

478th-most career R

1,884

359th-most career H

349

318th-most career 2B

320

136th-most career HR

RBI

1,105

223rd-most career RBI

423

1,069

335th-most career SO

.2762

OBP

.3209

SLG

.4763

250th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7972

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
1999-06-05	MIL @ COL Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	5	13
2001-07-28	HOU @ PIT Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	5	12
1997-07-22	COL @ WSH Gameday	7	4	5	0	2	4	11
1998-04-26	COL @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	5	11
1995-06-14	CIN @ COL Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	3	11

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

3× Silver Slugger2× 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.