Al Lopez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornAugust 20, 1908 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 27, 1928

Final gameSeptember 16, 1947

Seasons19 (1928–1947)

Brooklyn Robins 1928; Brooklyn Robins 1930–1931; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932–1935; Boston Bees 1936–1940; Pittsburgh Pirates 1940–1946; Cleveland Indians 1947

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified batters

140

67.2

504

45.5

439

40.3

120

38.8

47.8

17.2

56.7

RBI

60.4

27.6

25.4

32.8

.273

27.6

OBP

.349

35.1

SLG

.383

28.4

OPS

.732

29.1

wRC+

100.9

38.1

OPS+

99.0

37.3

wOBA

.339

28.4

sWAR

2.8

70.9

of 135 qualified 1934 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

83.4

14.1

OPS+

82.9

12.6

sWAR

24.6

95.2

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
1928	3	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.5	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1930	128	466	421	60	130	20	4	6	57	33	35	3	0	.309	.362	.418	.780	90.2	89.4	.351	1.8
1931	111	392	360	38	97	13	4	0	40	28	33	1	0	.269	.324	.328	.652	76.3	76.7	.306	1.0
1932	126	444	404	44	111	18	6	1	43	34	35	3	0	.275	.331	.356	.687	86.7	86.0	.315	1.8
1933	126	403	372	39	112	11	4	3	41	21	39	10	0	.301	.338	.376	.715	106.2	106.4	.332	2.8
1934	140	504	439	58	120	23	2	7	54	49	44	2	0	.273	.349	.383	.732	100.9	99.0	.339	2.8
1935	128	425	379	50	95	12	4	3	39	35	36	2	0	.251	.316	.327	.643	75.4	74.2	.300	1.1
1936	128	470	426	46	103	12	5	7	50	41	41	1	0	.242	.311	.343	.654	81.1	80.8	.307	1.5
1937	105	378	334	31	68	11	1	3	38	35	57	3	0	.204	.281	.269	.551	59.1	57.2	.266	0.2
1938	71	256	236	19	63	6	1	1	14	11	24	5	0	.267	.305	.314	.619	77.2	79.3	.290	0.7
1939	131	463	412	32	104	22	1	8	49	40	45	1	0	.252	.319	.369	.688	88.7	89.9	.320	2.0
1940	95	317	293	35	80	9	3	3	41	19	21	6	0	.273	.317	.355	.672	84.8	86.6	.311	1.3
1941	114	354	317	33	84	9	1	5	43	31	23	0	0	.265	.330	.347	.677	90.8	90.9	.323	1.8
1942	103	331	289	17	74	8	2	1	26	34	17	0	0	.256	.338	.308	.646	90.4	87.8	.318	1.6
1943	118	428	372	40	98	9	4	1	39	44	25	2	0	.263	.341	.317	.659	89.7	87.7	.323	1.9
1944	115	371	331	27	76	12	1	1	34	34	24	4	0	.230	.303	.281	.584	61.9	62.4	.284	0.5
1945	91	280	243	22	53	8	0	0	18	35	12	1	0	.218	.317	.251	.568	60.0	56.1	.287	0.3
1946	56	177	150	13	46	2	0	1	12	23	14	1	0	.307	.399	.340	.739	115.3	107.3	.364	1.4
1947	61	136	126	9	33	1	0	0	14	9	13	1	1	.262	.311	.270	.581	65.0	67.4	.283	0.4

Career totals

1,950

295th-most career G

6,607

5,916

613

1,547

206

RBI

652

556

538

.2615

OBP

.3264

SLG

.3367

OPS

.6631

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1934-09-16	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	0	1	1	7
1933-08-13	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	0	7
1938-09-04	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1934-05-21	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1938-08-23	ATL @ PIT Gameday	6	1	4	0	1	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-13	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-15	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-16	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-18	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

Hall of Fame, 1977 (Veterans)

2× 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.