Yunel Escobar

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornNovember 2, 1982 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba

MLB debutJune 2, 2007

Final gameAugust 6, 2017

Seasons11 (2007–2017)

Atlanta Braves 2007–2010; Toronto Blue Jays 2010–2012; Tampa Bay Rays 2013–2014; Washington Nationals 2015; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2016–2017

Percentile snapshot

2016 season — qualified batters

132

567

25.5

517

28.3

29.7

157

57.9

40.7

14.5

2.8

RBI

2.1

24.1

94.5

41.4

.304

86.9

OBP

.355

66.2

SLG

.391

13.8

OPS

.745

27.6

wRC+

108.4

42.1

OPS+

106.3

39.3

wOBA

.328

33.1

sWAR

2.8

49.7

of 146 qualified 2016 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.5

48.6

OPS+

100.5

42.9

sWAR

28.5

96.2

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
2007	94	355	319	54	104	25	0	5	28	27	44	5	3	.326	.385	.451	.837	121.4	117.3	.373	2.4
2008	136	587	514	71	148	24	2	10	60	59	62	2	5	.288	.366	.401	.766	106.4	103.3	.346	3.0
2009	141	604	528	89	158	26	2	14	76	57	62	5	4	.299	.377	.436	.812	119.1	114.8	.366	4.1
2010	135	567	497	60	127	19	0	4	35	56	57	6	2	.256	.337	.318	.655	83.9	79.6	.306	1.5
2011	133	590	513	77	149	24	3	11	48	61	70	3	3	.290	.369	.413	.782	117.2	112.9	.351	3.9
2012	145	608	558	58	141	22	1	9	51	35	70	5	1	.253	.300	.344	.644	73.0	74.4	.286	0.8
2013	153	578	508	61	130	27	1	9	56	57	73	4	4	.256	.332	.366	.698	98.4	96.4	.315	2.7
2014	137	529	476	33	123	18	0	7	39	43	60	1	1	.258	.324	.340	.664	91.6	90.6	.303	2.1
2015	139	591	535	75	168	25	1	9	56	45	70	2	2	.314	.375	.415	.790	122.3	116.5	.355	3.8
2016	132	567	517	68	157	28	1	5	39	40	67	0	3	.304	.355	.391	.745	108.4	106.3	.328	2.8
2017	89	381	350	43	96	20	1	7	31	29	51	1	4	.274	.333	.397	.730	99.5	97.6	.320	1.4

Career totals

1,434

5,957

5,315

689

1,501

258

RBI

519

509

686

.2824

OBP

.3496

SLG

.3863

OPS

.7359

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
2012-08-29	TOR @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	3	1	5	0	10
2014-09-11	TB @ NYY Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	4	1	9
2007-06-04	MIA @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	0	8
2015-07-17	LAD @ WSH Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	2	0	8
2017-05-07	HOU @ LAA Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	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.