Jesus Alou

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 24, 1942 · Bajos de Haina, San Cristóbal, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1963

Final gameSeptember 29, 1979

Seasons15 (1963–1979)

San Francisco Giants 1963–1968; Houston Astros 1969–1973; Oakland Athletics 1973–1974; New York Mets 1975; Houston Astros 1978–1979

Percentile snapshot

1967 season — qualified batters

129

534

10.2

510

40.8

22.4

149

66.3

6.1

46.9

16.3

RBI

4.1

8.2

23.5

.292

78.6

OBP

.316

31.6

SLG

.367

29.6

OPS

.683

33.7

wRC+

98.5

30.6

OPS+

97.5

28.6

wOBA

.316

32.7

sWAR

1.0

16.3

of 99 qualified 1967 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.1

OPS+

87.5

19.2

sWAR

0.3

54.6

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
1963	16	25	24	3	6	1	0	0	5	0	3	0	1	.250	.280	.292	.572	64.9	66.7	.266	-0.1
1964	115	398	376	42	103	11	0	3	28	13	35	6	6	.274	.305	.327	.632	77.1	78.2	.289	-0.4
1965	143	567	543	76	162	19	4	9	52	13	40	8	5	.298	.317	.398	.715	100.3	99.7	.323	1.2
1966	110	387	370	41	96	13	1	1	20	9	22	5	5	.259	.279	.308	.587	59.3	62.8	.267	-1.2
1967	129	534	510	55	149	15	4	5	30	14	39	1	7	.292	.316	.367	.683	98.5	97.5	.316	1.0
1968	120	436	419	26	110	15	4	0	39	9	23	1	4	.263	.278	.317	.596	74.7	79.8	.276	-0.5
1969	115	476	452	49	112	19	4	5	34	15	30	4	6	.248	.276	.341	.617	67.0	73.9	.280	-1.0
1970	117	487	458	59	140	27	3	1	44	21	15	3	2	.306	.335	.384	.719	95.0	96.3	.327	0.7
1971	122	455	433	41	121	21	4	2	40	13	17	3	7	.279	.305	.360	.666	88.0	90.8	.306	0.2
1972	52	102	93	8	29	4	1	0	11	7	5	0	2	.312	.366	.376	.743	108.9	114.3	.334	0.3
1973	64	169	163	17	46	5	0	2	19	3	12	0	0	.282	.304	.350	.653	82.0	87.4	.297	-0.1
1974	96	232	220	13	59	8	0	2	15	5	9	0	0	.268	.288	.332	.620	80.8	85.1	.286	-0.4
1975	62	108	102	8	27	3	0	0	11	4	5	0	1	.265	.299	.294	.593	63.0	69.6	.276	-0.2
1978	77	152	139	7	45	5	1	2	19	6	5	0	0	.324	.345	.417	.762	118.8	120.5	.347	0.7
1979	42	49	43	3	11	4	0	0	10	6	7	0	0	.256	.347	.349	.696	97.9	96.7	.323	0.1

Career totals

1,380

4,577

4,345

448

1,216

170

RBI

377

138

267

.2799

OBP

.3053

SLG

.3530

OPS

.6583

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
1964-07-10	SF @ CHC Gameday	6	1	6	0	0	1	1	0	9
1965-07-04	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	2	0	8
1969-07-30	HOU @ NYM Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	1	2	1	7
1965-08-08	SF @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1966-04-19	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	4	4	2	0	0	0	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.