Frank Taveras

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 155 lb

BornDecember 24, 1949 · Las Matas de Santa Cruz, Monte Cristi, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1971

Final gameJuly 25, 1982

Seasons11 (1971–1982)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1971–1972; Pittsburgh Pirates 1974–1978; New York Mets 1979; Pittsburgh Pirates 1979; New York Mets 1980–1981; Montreal Expos 1982

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

141

25.8

598

47.6

562

66.1

26.6

157

58.9

61.3

RBI

0.8

7.3

54.8

83.9

4.8

.279

49.2

OBP

.308

13.7

SLG

.327

6.5

OPS

.635

6.5

wRC+

80.1

12.1

OPS+

79.9

9.7

wOBA

.298

8.1

sWAR

1.3

19.4

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

71.7

4.2

OPS+

71.5

3.1

sWAR

5.5

80.6

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
1971	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1972	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	4.5	-21.9	.188	0.0
1974	126	367	333	33	82	4	2	0	26	25	41	13	4	.246	.300	.270	.571	64.3	64.1	.276	0.3
1975	134	427	378	44	80	9	4	0	23	37	42	17	6	.212	.284	.257	.541	54.7	53.0	.267	-0.2
1976	144	573	519	76	134	8	6	0	24	44	79	58	11	.258	.321	.297	.618	80.9	77.6	.300	1.4
1977	147	600	544	72	137	20	10	1	29	38	71	70	18	.252	.306	.331	.637	70.8	70.8	.295	0.6
1978	157	702	654	81	182	31	9	0	38	29	60	46	25	.278	.313	.353	.666	83.4	84.1	.310	1.8
1979	164	725	680	93	178	29	9	1	34	33	74	44	20	.262	.298	.335	.633	74.6	74.9	.294	1.0
1980	141	598	562	65	157	27	0	0	25	23	64	32	18	.279	.308	.327	.635	80.1	79.9	.298	1.3
1981	84	305	283	30	65	11	3	0	11	12	36	16	4	.230	.263	.290	.553	54.0	58.0	.262	-0.2
1982	48	98	87	9	14	5	1	0	4	7	6	4	0	.161	.221	.241	.462	25.6	29.0	.222	-0.4

Career totals

1,150

4,399

4,043

503

1,029

144

RBI

214

249

474

300

172nd-most career SB

.2545

OBP

.3006

SLG

.3134

OPS

.6140

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	RBI	BB	TB
1978-09-16	WSH @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	0	0	6
1980-05-25	ATL @ NYM Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	0	0	6
1978-06-26	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	1	0	6
1979-09-06	NYM @ PHI Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	0	1	6
1977-07-21	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	1	0	6

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.