MLB / Players

Hector Lopez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 182 lb

BornJuly 8, 1929 · Colon, Colón, Panama

MLB debutMay 12, 1955

Final gameSeptember 30, 1966

Seasons12 (1955–1966)

Kansas City Athletics 1955–1959; New York Yankees 1959–1966

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified batters

147

53.6

593

47.8

541

56.5

153

62.3

50.7

72.5

RBI

78.3

18.8

27.5

37.7

76.8

.283

55.1

OBP

.333

33.3

SLG

.471

OPS

.804

56.5

wRC+

120.3

62.3

OPS+

121.3

66.7

wOBA

.358

sWAR

3.5

59.4

of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.6

46.6

OPS+

103.1

48.6

sWAR

16.5

91.9

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
1955	128	527	483	50	140	15	2	15	68	33	58	1	4	.290	.337	.422	.759	98.8	100.2	.350	1.9
1956	151	639	561	91	153	27	3	18	69	63	73	4	5	.273	.347	.428	.775	101.1	101.6	.355	2.4
1957	121	441	391	51	115	19	4	11	35	41	66	1	6	.294	.357	.448	.805	115.8	116.0	.362	2.5
1958	151	631	564	84	147	28	4	17	73	49	61	2	2	.261	.317	.415	.732	96.0	97.6	.329	2.1
1959	147	593	541	82	153	26	5	22	93	36	77	4	1	.283	.333	.471	.804	120.3	121.3	.358	3.5
1960	131	469	408	66	116	14	6	9	42	46	64	1	1	.284	.361	.414	.775	119.3	116.0	.357	2.1
1961	93	273	243	27	54	7	2	3	22	24	38	1	0	.222	.292	.305	.596	64.4	65.0	.277	-0.7
1962	106	372	335	45	92	19	1	6	48	33	53	0	1	.275	.338	.391	.729	101.1	100.7	.330	0.8
1963	130	473	433	54	108	13	4	14	52	35	71	1	2	.249	.304	.395	.699	94.3	97.1	.310	0.6
1964	127	313	285	34	74	9	3	10	34	24	54	1	1	.260	.317	.418	.735	102.7	103.2	.328	0.6
1965	111	317	283	25	74	12	2	7	39	26	61	0	0	.261	.322	.392	.714	103.6	103.8	.324	0.8
1966	54	129	117	14	25	4	1	4	16	8	20	0	0	.214	.268	.368	.635	83.0	84.0	.287	0.0

Career totals

1,450

5,177

4,644

623

1,251

193

136

RBI

591

418

696

.2694

OBP

.3299

SLG

.4147

OPS

.7446

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
1958-06-26	MIN @ ATH Gameday	6	3	3	0	0	3	5	0	12
1957-04-24	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1959-05-23	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	1	4	1	9
1958-08-21	ATH @ MIN Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	3	2	9
1959-06-27	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-08-23	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-07-24	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-09-18	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-09-19	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-04-30	BOS @ ATH 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.