MLB / Players

Aurelio Lopez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 21, 1948 · Tecamachalco, Puebla, México

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1974

Final gameJune 17, 1987

Seasons11 (1974–1987)

Kansas City Royals 1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1978; Detroit Tigers 1979–1985; Houston Astros 1986–1987

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

13.2

89.8

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	H	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	8	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1978	25	16	14	3	6	.214	.214	.214	.429	-1.2	14.5	.200	0.4
1979	61	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.0
1980	67	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1981	29	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1982	19	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1983	57	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1984	71	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9
1985	51	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1986	45	10	9	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.3	-100.0	.000	0.8
1987	26	2	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.8	-100.0	.000	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1974	8	1	0	0	0	21	10	10	5	0	16.0	5.63	1.938	2.81	3.82	100.8	67.4	-0.2
1978	25	4	4	2	0	52	31	32	46	4	65.0	4.29	1.292	6.37	3.53	88.8	92.6	0.4
1979	61	0	10	5	21	95	34	51	106	12	127.0	2.41	1.150	7.51	3.60	83.3	179.4	4.0
1980	67	1	13	6	21	125	52	45	97	15	124.0	3.77	1.371	7.04	3.93	96.2	108.2	1.7
1981	29	3	5	2	3	70	33	31	53	8	81.7	3.64	1.237	5.84	3.73	99.5	103.0	0.9
1982	19	0	3	1	3	41	24	19	26	8	41.0	5.27	1.463	5.71	5.35	132.6	76.6	-0.2
1983	57	0	9	8	18	87	36	49	90	12	115.3	2.81	1.179	7.02	3.92	99.2	140.7	2.6
1984	71	0	10	1	14	109	45	52	94	16	137.7	2.94	1.169	6.15	4.07	103.5	133.6	2.9
1985	51	0	3	7	5	82	46	41	53	15	86.3	4.80	1.425	5.53	5.23	128.2	85.1	0.2
1986	45	0	3	3	7	64	30	25	44	6	78.0	3.46	1.141	5.08	3.58	99.2	104.3	0.8
1987	26	0	2	1	1	39	19	12	21	6	38.0	4.50	1.342	4.97	4.92	125.5	87.2	0.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

459

RBI

.1250

OBP

.1250

SLG

.1250

OPS

.2500

Pitching

G (P)

459

190th-most career SV

SHO

910

SO (P)

635

BB allowed

367

ERA

3.560

WHIP

1.2659

K/9

6.28

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	H	TB
1978-08-15	HOU @ STL Gameday	2	1	1
1978-09-13	STL @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1
1978-09-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	1	1	1
1978-07-17	SF @ STL Gameday	3	0	0
1978-07-19	SD @ STL Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1978-08-15	HOU @ STL Gameday	7.0	8	5	5	1	7
1981-05-31	DET @ BAL Gameday	5.1	5	1	1	4	7
1981-06-09	DET @ TEX Gameday	6.0	4	0	0	3	6
1985-08-30	ATH @ DET Gameday	6.0	5	2	2	0	6
1985-07-20	TEX @ DET Gameday	3.0	1	1	1	1	6

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

1× 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.