Hector Cruz
St. Louis Cardinals 1973; St. Louis Cardinals 1975–1977; Chicago Cubs 1978; San Francisco Giants 1978; Cincinnati Reds 1979; San Francisco Giants 1979; Cincinnati Reds 1980; Chicago Cubs 1981–1982
Percentile snapshot
1976 season — qualified batters
of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .083 | .000 | .083 | -82.4 | -74.7 | .063 | -0.2 |
| 1975 | 23 | 52 | 48 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .176 | .271 | .447 | 7.9 | 21.4 | .206 | -0.4 |
| 1976 | 151 | 577 | 526 | 54 | 120 | 17 | 1 | 13 | 71 | 42 | 119 | 1 | 0 | .228 | .286 | .338 | .625 | 72.7 | 76.9 | .291 | 0.3 |
| 1977 | 118 | 391 | 339 | 50 | 80 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 42 | 46 | 56 | 4 | 3 | .236 | .326 | .357 | .683 | 89.1 | 85.4 | .318 | 0.2 |
| 1978 | 109 | 300 | 273 | 27 | 62 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 33 | 24 | 45 | 0 | 2 | .227 | .292 | .370 | .662 | 82.6 | 84.6 | .305 | 0.2 |
| 1979 | 90 | 243 | 207 | 26 | 47 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 34 | 46 | 0 | 1 | .227 | .335 | .353 | .687 | 92.1 | 88.8 | .322 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 52 | 83 | 75 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .289 | .333 | .622 | 72.8 | 74.3 | .290 | -0.2 |
| 1981 | 53 | 127 | 109 | 15 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 24 | 2 | 2 | .229 | .331 | .468 | .799 | 124.4 | 120.2 | .369 | 0.7 |
| 1982 | 17 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .286 | .263 | .549 | 55.6 | 53.0 | .268 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-04-28 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1978-06-23 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1978-07-19 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1979-08-26 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1978-08-26 | WSH @ SF Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 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.