Felipe Alou

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornMay 12, 1935 · Bajos de Haina, San Cristóbal, D.R.

MLB debutJune 8, 1958

Final gameApril 24, 1974

Seasons17 (1958–1974)

San Francisco Giants 1958–1963; Milwaukee Braves 1964–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966–1969; Oakland Athletics 1970; New York Yankees 1971; Oakland Athletics 1971; New York Yankees 1972; Montreal Expos 1973; New York Yankees 1973; Milwaukee Brewers 1974

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified batters

133

12.5

510

1.8

469

11.6

10.7

135

41.1

72.3

29.5

RBI

55.4

16.1

98.2

45.5

41.1

.288

73.2

OBP

.333

41.1

SLG

.409

OPS

.742

45.5

wRC+

110.7

44.6

OPS+

110.9

48.2

wOBA

.341

43.8

sWAR

1.7

31.3

of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.8

67.3

OPS+

113.6

69.6

sWAR

29.8

96.5

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
1958	75	204	182	21	46	9	2	4	16	19	34	4	2	.253	.325	.390	.715	89.5	90.0	.321	0.0
1959	95	268	247	38	68	13	2	10	33	17	38	5	3	.275	.318	.466	.784	110.1	111.4	.344	0.9
1960	106	347	322	48	85	17	3	8	44	16	42	10	2	.264	.299	.410	.709	96.6	98.3	.316	0.5
1961	132	447	415	59	120	19	0	18	52	26	41	11	4	.289	.333	.465	.798	113.6	113.6	.351	1.7
1962	154	606	561	96	177	30	3	25	98	33	66	10	7	.316	.356	.513	.869	132.9	133.2	.384	3.8
1963	157	607	565	75	159	31	9	20	82	27	87	11	2	.281	.319	.474	.793	128.3	127.6	.353	3.3
1964	121	455	415	60	105	26	3	9	51	30	41	5	2	.253	.306	.395	.701	93.8	95.9	.313	0.9
1965	143	599	555	80	165	29	2	23	78	31	63	8	4	.297	.338	.481	.819	129.2	128.2	.363	3.2
1966	154	706	666	122	218	32	6	31	74	24	51	5	7	.327	.361	.533	.894	146.5	143.0	.392	5.5
1967	140	617	574	76	157	26	3	15	43	32	50	6	5	.274	.318	.408	.726	107.8	107.8	.330	1.8
1968	160	718	662	72	210	37	5	11	57	48	56	12	11	.317	.365	.438	.803	144.1	140.5	.368	6.5
1969	123	509	476	54	134	13	1	5	32	23	23	4	6	.282	.319	.345	.663	84.4	86.0	.308	0.8
1970	154	618	575	70	156	25	3	8	55	32	31	10	5	.271	.308	.367	.675	85.4	89.5	.306	0.0
1971	133	510	469	52	135	21	6	8	69	32	25	5	5	.288	.333	.409	.742	110.7	110.9	.341	1.7
1972	120	351	324	33	90	18	1	6	37	22	27	1	0	.278	.326	.395	.721	119.8	117.6	.337	1.0
1973	112	343	328	29	76	13	0	5	31	11	29	0	2	.232	.254	.317	.571	50.5	62.3	.254	-1.7
1974	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.5	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

2,082

205th-most career G

7,908

308th-most career PA

7,339

244th-most career AB

985

376th-most career R

2,101

238th-most career H

359

293rd-most career 2B

206

364th-most career HR

RBI

852

460th-most career RBI

423

706

107

.2863

497th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3277

SLG

.4328

OPS

.7605

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
1966-04-26	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	3	5	2	2	2	0	13
1966-07-09	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1965-06-15	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	6	1	9
1961-08-02	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	4	0	9
1961-08-20	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-04-28	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-05-08	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-07-09	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-09-22	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-09-23	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	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

3× 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.