Justin Upton

2007–2022 · 16 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1987

JavaScript is switched off, so the extra columns cannot be unfolded. Every season below is already on the page and every number in it is real.

17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Hitting

SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
2007Arizona DiamondbacksNL4315214017318321111372.221.283.364.647-0.7
2008Arizona DiamondbacksNL10841735652891961542541211.250.353.463.8160.8
2009Arizona DiamondbacksNL1385885268415830726865513720.300.366.532.8994.3
2010Arizona DiamondbacksNL1335714957313527317696415218.273.356.442.7992.5
2011SSArizona DiamondbacksNL15967459210517139531885912621.289.369.529.8985.8
2012Arizona DiamondbacksNL15062855410715524417676312118.280.355.430.7853.0
2013Atlanta BravesNL149643558941472722770751618.263.354.464.8183.2
2014SSAtlanta BravesNL1546405667715334229102601718.270.342.491.8333.8
2015San Diego PadresNL1506195428513626326816815919.251.336.454.7902.1
2016Detroit TigersAL153626570811402823187501799.246.310.465.7751.4
2017SSDetroit TigersAL152635557100152440351097418014.273.361.540.9015.2
2018Los Angeles Angels of AnaheimAL145613533801371813085641768.257.344.463.8083.8
2019Los Angeles Angels of AnaheimAL63256219344780124032781.215.309.416.724-0.1
2020Los Angeles Angels of AnaheimAL4216614720305092211430.204.289.422.7110.0
2021Los Angeles Angels of AnaheimAL8936131847671201741391074.211.296.409.705-0.2
2022Seattle MarinersAL1757482610136230.125.263.208.471-0.3
Career16 seasons184576466721105817543503832510037851971151.261.345.469.81434.5

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

Any shaded cell or chip will explain itself. Point at one, or tab to it and it opens on focus, and it names the league, the season and the statistic in full. On a touchscreen, tap it once to open and once more to close.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League), AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.