MLB / Players

Yadier Molina

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 225 lb

BornJuly 13, 1982 · Bayamon, P.R.

MLB debutJune 3, 2004

Final gameOctober 5, 2022

Seasons19 (2004–2022)

St. Louis Cardinals 2004–2022

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified batters

123

0.7

503

0.7

459

2.9

10.1

120

16.5

12.9

RBI

52.5

7.9

95.7

33.8

40.3

.261

48.2

OBP

.314

21.6

SLG

.436

47.5

OPS

.750

wRC+

103.6

37.4

OPS+

104.0

38.8

wOBA

.327

sWAR

2.9

of 140 qualified 2018 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.4

32.5

OPS+

96.5

34.9

sWAR

42.0

98.2

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
2004	51	151	135	12	36	6	0	2	15	13	20	0	1	.267	.329	.356	.684	75.6	79.4	.302	0.5
2005	114	421	385	36	97	15	1	8	49	23	30	2	3	.252	.295	.358	.654	68.0	72.2	.290	0.7
2006	129	461	417	29	90	26	0	6	49	26	41	1	2	.216	.274	.321	.595	51.2	53.6	.267	-0.3
2007	111	396	353	30	97	15	0	6	40	34	43	1	1	.275	.340	.368	.708	85.0	86.0	.316	1.4
2008	124	485	444	37	135	18	0	7	56	32	29	0	2	.304	.349	.392	.740	96.4	97.1	.330	2.3
2009	140	544	481	45	141	23	1	6	54	50	39	9	3	.293	.366	.383	.749	105.3	101.2	.343	3.3
2010	136	521	465	34	122	19	0	6	62	42	51	8	4	.262	.329	.342	.671	84.0	84.9	.305	1.8
2011	139	518	475	55	145	32	1	14	65	33	44	4	5	.305	.349	.465	.814	125.5	124.8	.359	4.5
2012	138	563	505	65	159	28	0	22	76	45	55	12	3	.315	.373	.501	.874	140.8	138.6	.380	5.9
2013	136	541	505	68	161	44	0	12	80	30	55	3	2	.319	.359	.477	.836	133.3	130.9	.367	5.2
2014	110	445	404	40	114	21	0	7	38	28	55	1	1	.282	.333	.386	.719	101.7	103.0	.321	2.5
2015	136	530	488	34	132	23	2	4	61	32	59	3	1	.270	.310	.350	.660	78.4	81.9	.293	1.6
2016	147	581	534	56	164	38	1	8	58	39	63	3	2	.307	.360	.427	.787	115.4	112.8	.348	4.3
2017	136	543	501	60	137	27	1	18	82	28	74	9	4	.273	.312	.439	.751	93.4	97.1	.319	2.4
2018	123	503	459	55	120	20	0	20	74	29	66	4	3	.261	.314	.436	.750	103.6	104.0	.327	2.9
2019	113	452	419	45	113	24	0	10	57	23	58	6	0	.270	.312	.399	.711	85.2	85.9	.306	1.5
2020	42	156	145	12	38	2	0	4	16	6	21	0	0	.262	.303	.359	.662	81.7	82.0	.292	0.5
2021	121	472	440	45	111	19	0	11	66	24	79	3	0	.252	.297	.370	.667	81.4	82.9	.293	1.5
2022	80	270	262	19	56	8	0	5	24	5	40	2	0	.214	.233	.302	.535	46.7	52.0	.235	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2022	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	0	1	2	2.0	18.00	3.000	4.50	15.17	383.6	22.0	-0.5

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

2,226

139th-most career G

8,553

203rd-most career PA

7,817

175th-most career AB

777

2,168

202nd-most career H

408

179th-most career 2B

176

481st-most career HR

RBI

1,022

283rd-most career RBI

542

922

484th-most career SO

.2773

OBP

.3274

SLG

.3989

OPS

.7263

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

18.000

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

4.50

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
2021-04-17	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	4	0	10
2019-08-27	STL @ MIL Gameday	3	3	3	1	2	3	1	10
2017-08-02	STL @ MIL Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	2	0	10
2016-09-06	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	4	0	9
2007-08-16	STL @ MIL Gameday	3	3	3	0	2	3	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2022-06-08	STL @ TB Gameday	1.0	2	0	0	0	1	0
2022-05-22	STL @ PIT Gameday	1.0	4	4	4	0	0	2

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

9× Gold Glove1× Silver Slugger10× 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.