Cookie Rojas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornMarch 6, 1939 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba

MLB debutApril 10, 1962

Final gameOctober 1, 1977

Seasons16 (1962–1977)

Cincinnati Reds 1962; Philadelphia Phillies 1963–1969; Kansas City Royals 1970; St. Louis Cardinals 1970; Kansas City Royals 1971–1977

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

144

37.4

590

41.2

542

57.3

5.3

147

13.7

7.6

RBI

12.2

88.5

51.1

57.3

.271

OBP

.309

SLG

.339

18.3

OPS

.649

wRC+

79.8

11.5

OPS+

83.1

14.5

wOBA

.301

12.2

sWAR

0.9

12.2

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.6

OPS+

82.9

12.8

sWAR

10.9

87.8

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
1962	39	97	86	9	19	2	0	0	6	9	4	1	1	.221	.302	.244	.546	48.6	48.0	.262	-0.2
1963	64	82	77	18	17	0	1	1	2	3	8	4	1	.221	.259	.286	.545	56.1	58.6	.253	-0.1
1964	109	377	340	58	99	19	5	2	31	22	17	1	3	.291	.334	.394	.728	108.9	106.6	.332	1.8
1965	142	578	521	78	158	25	3	3	42	42	33	5	5	.303	.356	.380	.736	113.1	110.0	.338	3.1
1966	156	679	626	77	168	18	1	6	55	35	46	4	6	.268	.310	.329	.639	79.2	79.0	.293	0.6
1967	147	578	528	60	137	21	2	4	45	30	58	8	4	.259	.297	.330	.627	78.2	79.0	.291	0.7
1968	152	650	621	53	144	19	0	9	48	16	55	4	8	.232	.248	.306	.554	58.6	65.7	.257	-0.6
1969	110	425	391	35	89	11	1	4	30	23	28	1	6	.228	.269	.292	.561	55.4	58.6	.263	-0.7
1970	121	460	431	38	105	13	3	2	30	23	33	3	7	.244	.283	.302	.585	58.8	61.4	.274	-0.6
1971	115	463	414	56	124	22	2	6	59	39	35	8	3	.300	.357	.406	.763	120.0	118.2	.353	2.9
1972	137	541	487	49	127	25	0	3	53	41	35	2	8	.261	.315	.331	.646	89.0	90.7	.304	1.5
1973	139	595	551	77	152	29	3	6	69	37	38	18	4	.276	.320	.372	.692	89.7	90.6	.320	1.6
1974	144	590	542	52	147	17	1	6	60	30	43	8	4	.271	.309	.339	.649	79.8	83.1	.301	0.9
1975	120	445	406	34	103	18	2	2	37	30	24	4	5	.254	.304	.323	.626	75.1	76.3	.294	0.4
1976	63	145	132	11	32	6	0	0	16	8	15	2	0	.242	.280	.288	.568	64.4	67.4	.270	-0.1
1977	64	166	156	8	39	9	1	0	10	8	17	1	3	.250	.285	.321	.605	60.0	65.6	.271	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1967	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	2.66	78.1	—	0.7

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

1,822

391st-most career G

6,871

492nd-most career PA

6,309

438th-most career AB

713

1,660

254

RBI

593

396

489

.2631

OBP

.3060

SLG

.3370

OPS

.6430

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

0.00

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
1973-07-05	KC @ MIN Gameday	6	3	3	2	0	1	5	8
1973-07-14	KC @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1966-07-23	PHI @ SF Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1973-09-02	ATH @ KC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1974-07-01	KC @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-06-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	1.0	1	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.

Honors

5× 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.