MLB / Players

Bartolo Portuondo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in

BornAugust 24, 1893 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba

Seasons12 (1916–1927)

Cuban Stars East 1916; Cuban Stars West 1917–1919; Kansas City Monarchs 1920–1922; Cuban Stars East 1923–1927

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified batters

5.7

169

3.2

150

5.1

1.9

2.5

0.6

1.3

RBI

3.8

1.3

77.8

5.7

35.4

.200

3.2

OBP

.255

1.9

SLG

.233

0.6

OPS

.488

0.6

wRC+

39.8

1.3

OPS+

33.8

1.3

wOBA

.241

1.3

sWAR

-0.7

2.5

of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 158 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.5

72.2

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
1916	12	51	46	5	12	2	2	0	7	2	0	3	0	.261	.320	.391	.711	90.1	92.4	.342	0.1
1917	45	170	154	14	38	1	3	0	10	9	0	5	0	.247	.297	.292	.589	90.8	92.9	.295	0.5
1918	36	159	138	21	29	5	1	0	9	14	0	0	0	.210	.288	.261	.548	69.9	61.1	.279	0.1
1919	32	148	133	19	35	2	1	0	9	10	0	6	0	.263	.319	.293	.613	77.1	72.8	.299	0.2
1920	71	334	292	57	93	20	1	0	23	25	0	27	0	.318	.382	.394	.776	129.2	132.6	.380	2.5
1921	74	328	291	51	77	10	5	0	23	26	0	13	0	.265	.327	.333	.660	89.0	86.7	.318	0.8
1922	15	57	46	8	13	1	0	0	3	8	0	3	0	.283	.411	.304	.715	105.3	94.7	.357	0.3
1923	30	124	107	12	23	2	1	1	10	8	0	0	0	.215	.288	.280	.569	69.1	60.0	.276	0.0
1924	50	218	199	29	44	2	1	0	20	8	1	4	0	.221	.258	.241	.500	43.2	36.2	.241	-0.8
1925	41	169	154	18	36	4	2	0	9	8	0	0	0	.234	.272	.286	.557	49.0	44.4	.261	-0.1
1926	43	169	150	15	30	3	1	0	15	9	1	2	1	.200	.255	.233	.488	39.8	33.8	.241	-0.7
1927	29	118	103	16	23	2	2	0	14	10	0	3	0	.223	.298	.282	.580	58.7	52.7	.282	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	6	1	4	4	0	9.0	1.00	1.111	4.00	4.92	100.9	488.0	-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

478

2,045

1,813

265

453

RBI

152

137

.2499

OBP

.3103

SLG

.3034

OPS

.6137

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

1.000

WHIP

1.1111

K/9

4.00

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	TB
1920-06-12	SLS @ KCM Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	3	6
1920-06-13	SLS @ KCM Gameday	6	1	3	3	0	0	1	6
1923-07-04	CSE @ BRG Gameday	6	1	3	0	1	0	1	5
1920-07-20	KCM @ ABC Gameday	6	1	3	2	0	0	0	5
1923-09-05	CSE @ HIL Gameday	5	1	2	0	0	1	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-05-09	KCM @ SLS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-10	KCM @ SLS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-16	KCM @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-20	KCM @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-21	KCM @ ABC 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.