Elias Sosa
San Francisco Giants 1972–1974; Atlanta Braves 1975; St. Louis Cardinals 1975; Atlanta Braves 1976; Los Angeles Dodgers 1976–1977; Oakland Athletics 1978; Montreal Expos 1979–1981; Detroit Tigers 1982; San Diego Padres 1983
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
| 1973 | 71 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .188 | .071 | .259 | -26.2 | -26.5 | .152 | 1.7 |
| 1974 | 68 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .067 | .067 | .133 | -88.4 | -63.2 | .063 | 1.2 |
| 1975 | 57 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .133 | .133 | .267 | -47.2 | -26.6 | .126 | 0.2 |
| 1976 | 45 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -41.8 | -20.9 | .135 | -0.1 |
| 1977 | 45 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 30.2 | 36.6 | .230 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.4 |
| 1979 | 62 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | .154 | .214 | .231 | .445 | 19.6 | 22.9 | .214 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 67 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -69.7 | -48.7 | .085 | 1.4 |
| 1981 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 533.3 | 469.7 | .940 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 1983 | 41 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -33.0 | -19.0 | .133 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 15.7 | 2.30 | 1.404 | 5.74 | 3.55 | 101.3 | 152.5 | 0.3 |
| 1973 | 71 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 39 | 41 | 70 | 7 | 107.0 | 3.28 | 1.271 | 5.89 | 3.35 | 88.1 | 116.1 | 1.7 |
| 1974 | 68 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 39 | 45 | 48 | 8 | 101.0 | 3.48 | 1.376 | 4.28 | 4.03 | 106.7 | 108.7 | 1.2 |
| 1975 | 57 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 43 | 43 | 46 | 6 | 89.7 | 4.32 | 1.506 | 4.62 | 4.03 | 108.0 | 86.5 | 0.2 |
| 1976 | 45 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 34 | 25 | 52 | 3 | 69.0 | 4.43 | 1.391 | 6.78 | 2.84 | 79.3 | 80.4 | -0.1 |
| 1977 | 44 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 14 | 12 | 47 | 7 | 63.7 | 1.98 | .848 | 6.64 | 3.30 | 86.1 | 193.7 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 68 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 106 | 32 | 44 | 61 | 5 | 109.0 | 2.64 | 1.376 | 5.04 | 3.27 | 90.0 | 137.5 | 2.4 |
| 1979 | 62 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 21 | 37 | 59 | 2 | 96.7 | 1.96 | 1.179 | 5.49 | 2.95 | 80.1 | 188.3 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 67 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 32 | 19 | 58 | 5 | 93.7 | 3.07 | 1.313 | 5.57 | 2.84 | 79.3 | 116.6 | 1.4 |
| 1981 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 16 | 8 | 18 | 3 | 39.3 | 3.66 | 1.373 | 4.12 | 3.43 | 97.8 | 95.8 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 38 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 30 | 18 | 24 | 11 | 61.0 | 4.43 | 1.344 | 3.54 | 5.23 | 129.7 | 91.1 | 0.3 |
| 1983 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 35 | 30 | 45 | 7 | 72.3 | 4.35 | 1.410 | 5.60 | 4.06 | 115.2 | 80.8 | 0.0 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-18 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1973-05-26 | WSH @ SF Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1975-05-03 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1981-04-28 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1983-08-29 | SD @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-07-10 | SD @ LAD Gameday | 4.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979-05-12 | WSH @ LAD Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 1973-09-11 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 4.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979-07-15 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 4.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1975-06-08 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.