Alex Cole
Cleveland Indians 1990–1992; Pittsburgh Pirates 1992; Colorado Rockies 1993; Minnesota Twins 1994–1995; Boston Red Sox 1996
Percentile snapshot
1994 season — qualified batters
of 157 qualified 1994 batters (min 350 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 63 | 256 | 227 | 43 | 68 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 28 | 38 | 40 | 9 | .300 | .379 | .357 | .736 | 115.4 | 108.0 | .349 | 1.5 |
| 1991 | 122 | 452 | 387 | 58 | 114 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 58 | 47 | 27 | 17 | .295 | .386 | .354 | .740 | 113.1 | 106.2 | .349 | 2.3 |
| 1992 | 105 | 334 | 302 | 44 | 77 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 28 | 67 | 16 | 6 | .255 | .318 | .315 | .633 | 82.3 | 80.4 | .300 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 126 | 399 | 348 | 50 | 89 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 43 | 58 | 30 | 13 | .256 | .339 | .305 | .644 | 65.4 | 64.2 | .304 | -0.3 |
| 1994 | 105 | 398 | 345 | 68 | 102 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 44 | 60 | 29 | 8 | .296 | .375 | .403 | .778 | 103.8 | 100.3 | .353 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 28 | 90 | 79 | 10 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 3 | .342 | .409 | .468 | .877 | 132.0 | 127.0 | .397 | 0.7 |
| 1996 | 24 | 83 | 72 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 3 | .222 | .296 | .319 | .616 | 56.4 | 55.2 | .283 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-09-12 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1992-09-03 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1994-07-15 | MIL @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1994-06-03 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1991-09-04 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
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.