MLB / Players

Cecil Cooper

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 165 lb

BornDecember 20, 1949 · Brenham, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1971

Final gameJuly 12, 1987

Seasons17 (1971–1987)

Boston Red Sox 1971–1976; Milwaukee Brewers 1977–1987

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

134

7.9

589

40.5

542

50.8

1.6

140

40.5

35.7

7.9

35.7

RBI

25.4

36.5

5.6

72.2

.258

OBP

.310

15.9

SLG

.373

20.6

OPS

.682

14.3

wRC+

81.8

11.1

OPS+

82.9

11.1

wOBA

.306

9.5

sWAR

-0.6

3.2

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.6

77.2

OPS+

121.3

81.4

sWAR

28.0

96.1

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
1971	14	49	42	9	13	4	1	0	3	5	4	1	0	.310	.388	.452	.840	133.2	131.6	.381	0.3
1972	12	19	17	0	4	1	0	0	2	2	5	0	0	.235	.316	.294	.610	63.6	78.7	.274	0.0
1973	30	109	101	12	24	2	0	3	11	7	12	1	2	.238	.284	.347	.631	67.5	73.4	.288	-0.3
1974	121	454	414	55	114	24	1	8	43	32	74	2	5	.275	.327	.396	.724	102.4	102.6	.334	0.5
1975	106	333	305	49	95	17	6	14	44	19	33	1	4	.311	.355	.544	.899	140.4	143.4	.397	1.7
1976	123	483	451	66	127	22	6	15	78	16	62	7	1	.282	.304	.457	.761	105.3	111.3	.342	0.7
1977	160	679	643	86	193	31	7	20	78	28	110	13	8	.300	.326	.463	.789	111.0	113.2	.346	1.9
1978	107	448	407	60	127	23	2	13	54	32	72	3	4	.312	.359	.474	.833	133.9	133.4	.375	2.4
1979	150	660	590	83	182	44	1	24	106	56	77	15	3	.308	.364	.508	.872	131.2	134.2	.381	3.4
1980	153	678	622	96	219	33	4	25	122	39	42	17	6	.352	.387	.539	.926	152.1	155.5	.405	5.1
1981	106	453	416	70	133	35	1	12	60	28	30	5	4	.320	.363	.495	.858	152.0	151.8	.388	3.4
1982	155	696	654	104	205	38	3	32	121	32	53	2	3	.313	.342	.528	.870	138.9	142.0	.377	4.3
1983	160	710	661	106	203	37	3	30	126	37	63	2	1	.307	.341	.508	.849	135.0	138.5	.370	4.1
1984	148	635	603	63	166	28	3	11	67	27	59	8	2	.275	.307	.386	.693	91.2	94.4	.309	0.2
1985	154	674	631	82	185	39	8	16	99	30	77	10	3	.293	.322	.456	.779	109.0	111.3	.340	1.7
1986	134	589	542	46	140	24	1	12	75	41	87	1	2	.258	.310	.373	.682	81.8	82.9	.306	-0.6
1987	63	270	250	25	62	13	0	6	36	17	51	1	1	.248	.293	.372	.665	70.3	73.7	.291	-0.8

Career totals

1,896

333rd-most career G

7,939

303rd-most career PA

7,349

241st-most career AB

1,012

338th-most career R

2,192

194th-most career H

415

167th-most career 2B

241

281st-most career HR

RBI

1,125

209th-most career RBI

448

911

497th-most career SO

.2983

245th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3366

SLG

.4659

323rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8025

477th-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1981-08-11	MIL @ CLE Gameday	5	3	5	1	2	2	0	12
1979-07-27	NYY @ MIL Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	4	0	12
1982-05-31	MIL @ SEA Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	2	0	10
1979-04-14	BAL @ MIL Gameday	4	4	3	1	2	3	1	10
1982-07-03	BOS @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	3	0	10

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

3× Silver Slugger2× Gold Glove5× 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.