Cesar Tovar

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 155 lb

BornJuly 3, 1940 · Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela

MLB debutApril 12, 1965

Final gameSeptember 29, 1976

Seasons12 (1965–1976)

Minnesota Twins 1965–1972; Philadelphia Phillies 1973; Texas Rangers 1974; Oakland Athletics 1975; Texas Rangers 1975; New York Yankees 1976; Oakland Athletics 1976

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

138

21.4

629

65.6

562

70.2

68.7

164

79.4

59.5

73.3

18.3

RBI

38.9

42.7

95.4

68.7

21.4

.292

76.3

OBP

.354

65.6

SLG

.377

31.3

OPS

.731

38.2

wRC+

116.9

60.3

OPS+

112.5

48.9

wOBA

.345

44.3

sWAR

3.1

59.5

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.6

46.6

OPS+

100.3

42.5

sWAR

20.7

93.9

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
1965	18	27	25	3	5	1	0	0	2	2	3	2	0	.200	.259	.240	.499	39.2	41.3	.240	-0.1
1966	134	527	465	57	121	19	5	2	41	44	50	16	6	.260	.325	.335	.660	88.9	86.9	.306	1.4
1967	164	726	649	98	173	32	7	6	47	46	51	19	11	.267	.325	.365	.691	101.1	98.2	.322	2.8
1968	157	673	613	89	167	31	6	6	47	34	41	35	13	.272	.326	.372	.698	112.3	108.1	.328	3.5
1969	158	591	535	99	154	25	5	11	52	37	37	45	12	.288	.342	.415	.757	111.9	110.9	.349	2.8
1970	161	726	650	120	195	36	13	10	54	52	47	30	15	.300	.356	.442	.798	119.9	118.7	.362	4.2
1971	157	718	657	94	204	29	3	1	45	45	39	18	14	.311	.356	.368	.725	107.3	105.1	.339	2.3
1972	141	607	548	86	145	20	6	2	31	39	39	21	10	.265	.329	.334	.663	95.4	94.2	.315	0.9
1973	97	364	328	49	88	18	4	1	21	29	35	6	4	.268	.335	.357	.692	92.6	89.9	.325	0.9
1974	138	629	562	78	164	24	6	4	58	47	33	13	9	.292	.354	.377	.731	116.9	112.5	.345	3.1
1975	121	492	453	58	116	17	0	3	31	30	28	20	11	.256	.306	.313	.619	77.5	76.6	.294	-0.6
1976	42	97	84	3	14	1	0	0	6	8	7	1	3	.167	.263	.179	.442	34.9	33.6	.225	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1968	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	9.00	3.22	104.4	—	3.5

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

1,488

6,177

5,569

834

1,546

253

RBI

435

413

410

226

297th-most career SB

.2776

OBP

.3354

SLG

.3676

OPS

.7030

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

9.00

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	BB	TB
1967-05-21	MIN @ LAA Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	2	4	0	12
1972-09-19	TEX @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1967-09-22	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1974-09-28	TEX @ KC Gameday	4	3	4	2	1	0	3	1	8
1969-09-06	MIN @ ATH Gameday	8	3	4	0	0	1	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-09-22	ATH @ MIN Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	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.