Cristóbal Torriente

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 16, 1893 · Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, Cuba

MLB debutAugust 2, 1913

Seasons16 (1913–1932)

Cuban Stars of Havana 1913–1915; Cuban Stars West 1916; Cuban Stars West 1918; Chicago American Giants 1919–1925; Kansas City Monarchs 1926; Detroit Stars 1927–1928; Louisville Black Caps 1932

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

378

40.2

322

40.8

101

40.2

43.2

8.3

68.6

RBI

60.9

69.8

50.3

32.5

.314

63.3

OBP

.401

79.3

SLG

.435

59.8

OPS

.836

66.3

wRC+

126.5

75.1

OPS+

125.1

72.8

wOBA

.390

68.6

sWAR

2.7

72.2

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 294 PA)

1918 season — qualified pitchers

10.8

7.5

5.4

91.4

6.5

SHO

92.5

75.3

9.7

55.9

57.0

12.9

ERA

2.68

55.9

WHIP

1.228

50.5

K/9

3.32

65.6

FIP

4.06

3.2

FIP-

111.5

20.4

ERA+

135.6

89.2

sWAR

3.3

80.6

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 42 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

151.6

98.4

OPS+

161.0

99.2

sWAR

39.9

97.9

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
1913	25	107	100	15	38	9	6	2	26	4	0	8	0	.380	.410	.650	1.060	178.5	193.6	.480	2.3
1914	33	140	117	28	46	10	4	2	22	21	0	6	0	.393	.486	.598	1.084	180.9	200.4	.499	2.2
1915	52	216	196	35	68	12	3	2	32	18	0	12	0	.347	.405	.469	.874	157.6	172.9	.422	2.9
1916	51	210	183	30	60	10	2	2	38	22	0	7	0	.328	.403	.437	.840	145.5	153.3	.412	1.9
1918	36	152	133	31	48	5	9	1	27	16	0	3	0	.361	.430	.556	.986	166.1	189.2	.468	3.3
1919	41	182	143	32	47	10	3	3	35	33	0	7	0	.329	.467	.503	.970	163.0	172.8	.459	3.0
1920	57	234	211	44	83	18	7	2	50	20	2	8	0	.393	.446	.573	1.019	189.5	205.2	.483	3.7
1921	73	292	248	64	84	7	11	9	61	31	7	18	3	.339	.420	.565	.985	163.2	176.6	.453	3.7
1922	54	221	187	46	54	9	1	8	35	29	6	12	1	.289	.384	.476	.860	125.6	130.1	.395	1.7
1923	74	318	261	69	101	22	5	4	63	44	0	12	0	.387	.481	.556	1.036	161.2	169.6	.474	4.2
1924	75	311	258	60	94	28	6	8	82	46	1	12	4	.364	.466	.612	1.078	177.9	194.0	.492	3.9
1925	88	361	293	52	77	11	6	9	65	54	0	5	0	.263	.378	.433	.811	117.0	117.3	.374	1.6
1926	77	330	276	58	97	17	6	5	65	37	0	18	2	.351	.446	.511	.957	142.9	145.9	.439	3.0
1927	88	378	322	45	101	17	2	6	60	46	0	6	0	.314	.401	.435	.836	126.5	125.1	.390	2.7
1928	37	116	111	14	36	8	3	1	25	5	0	2	0	.324	.353	.477	.831	120.4	124.8	.376	-0.4
1932	2	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.500	2.000	447.8	500.7	.894	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
1913	3	1	1	1	0	1	1	11	2	8	8	0	20.0	0.90	.950	3.60	3.78	113.8	369.0	2.3
1914	8	8	4	4	0	6	1	75	32	21	32	1	61.7	4.67	1.557	4.67	3.00	94.4	68.0	2.2
1915	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	6	8	0	13.3	1.35	.975	5.40	2.90	100.3	214.1	2.9
1916	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	11	6	9	4	0	9.7	5.59	2.069	3.72	4.59	155.2	52.9	1.9
1918	8	5	2	2	0	3	0	41	17	29	21	1	57.0	2.68	1.228	3.32	4.06	111.5	135.6	3.3
1919	5	5	3	1	0	4	0	32	13	20	24	2	40.7	2.88	1.279	5.31	3.62	110.4	114.1	3.0
1920	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	5	3	2	1	0	8.0	3.38	.875	1.13	3.99	111.1	106.3	3.7
1921	6	4	2	1	0	2	0	35	13	3	14	0	28.3	4.13	1.341	4.45	2.80	70.8	95.9	3.7
1922	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	6	4	3	2	0	9.7	3.72	.931	1.86	4.46	95.2	125.7	1.7
1923	4	3	2	1	0	2	1	23	8	6	9	1	21.0	3.43	1.381	3.86	3.91	88.9	128.2	4.2
1927	3	3	2	1	0	3	0	31	10	8	8	2	28.0	3.21	1.393	2.57	4.56	114.6	123.9	2.7
1928	14	9	6	2	1	3	1	101	54	18	18	6	74.0	6.57	1.608	2.19	4.90	114.7	65.0	-0.4
1932	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.7	0.00	.600	0.00	5.24	140.5	—	0.2

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

863

3,570

3,041

623

1,035

193

331st-most career 3B

RBI

686

426

136

.3403

21st-highest career batting average

OBP

.4260

16th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5163

75th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9423

36th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

373

SO (P)

149

BB allowed

134

ERA

3.957

WHIP

1.3727

K/9

3.60

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
1922-05-13	SLS @ CAG Gameday	5	4	5	2	0	2	7	0	13
1923-05-22	CAG @ SLS Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	7	0	10
1921-09-08	CAG @ KCM Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1920-07-29	CAG @ SLS Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	0	0	9
1921-07-07	KCM @ CAG Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	1	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1921-08-13	SLS @ CAG Gameday	5.0	2	0	0	0	6	0
1921-09-07	CAG @ KCM Gameday	9.0	8	4	3	1	5	0
1923-06-23	DTS @ CAG Gameday	9.0	12	3	3	1	2	1
1920-08-05	CAG @ KCM Gameday	8.0	5	4	3	2	1	0
1921-08-29	CAG @ SLS Gameday	8.0	16	11	6	0	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 2006 (Negro League)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.