José Bautista played 15 seasons (2004–2018) for BAL, KC, PIT and 5 other clubs. Career regular-season line: 1,496 hits, 344 home runs and a .247 average. Standard career, peaking in 2011. Led the league in a statistical category 2 times. Honors: 6× All-Star Selections and 3× Silver Sluggers.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 97.3th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
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Rate José Bautista — All-Time
13 seasons · peak 17.5 in 2011 · league-best season: 2011
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
36.5 career wins over 13 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 2011 · +6.7 wins
Latest season · 2018 · +1.0 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often José Bautista led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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2
league-leading seasons · 11 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 2011, 13 rated seasons.
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11
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
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Wore 8 distinct franchise crests across 15 seasons (2004–2018) — a true nomad. The crest trail: