Jorge Orta

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 26, 1950 · Mazatlan, Sinaloa, México

MLB debutApril 15, 1972

Final gameJune 10, 1987

Seasons16 (1972–1987)

Chicago White Sox 1972–1979; Cleveland Indians 1980–1981; Los Angeles Dodgers 1982; Toronto Blue Jays 1983; Kansas City Royals 1984–1987

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

8.8

370

19.7

338

25.5

62.8

32.8

28.5

53.3

38.7

RBI

28.5

13.1

36.5

58.4

.272

48.9

OBP

.312

21.2

SLG

.376

36.5

OPS

.688

26.3

wRC+

95.5

24.1

OPS+

98.6

29.9

wOBA

.314

19.7

sWAR

0.6

12.4

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 319 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.9

55.7

OPS+

107.6

57.7

sWAR

22.0

94.4

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
1972	51	133	124	20	25	3	1	3	11	6	37	3	3	.202	.244	.315	.559	59.3	64.8	.264	0.0
1973	128	469	425	46	113	9	10	6	40	37	87	8	8	.266	.323	.376	.699	93.0	94.4	.322	1.5
1974	139	578	525	73	166	31	2	10	67	40	88	9	5	.316	.365	.440	.805	132.5	129.1	.372	4.4
1975	140	602	542	64	165	26	10	11	83	48	67	16	9	.304	.363	.450	.813	127.1	127.3	.370	4.2
1976	158	688	636	74	174	29	8	14	72	38	77	24	8	.274	.316	.410	.726	109.9	111.2	.336	2.5
1977	144	621	564	71	159	27	8	11	84	46	49	4	4	.282	.334	.417	.751	103.4	103.6	.336	2.6
1978	117	477	420	45	115	19	2	13	53	42	39	1	2	.274	.340	.421	.762	112.8	112.9	.346	2.6
1979	113	377	325	49	85	18	3	11	46	44	33	1	5	.262	.348	.437	.785	111.8	110.7	.353	1.2
1980	129	564	481	78	140	18	3	10	64	71	44	6	5	.291	.379	.403	.782	118.8	113.9	.361	2.6
1981	88	370	338	50	92	14	3	5	34	21	43	4	3	.272	.312	.376	.688	95.5	98.6	.314	0.6
1982	86	129	115	13	25	5	0	2	8	12	13	0	1	.217	.295	.313	.608	69.3	73.5	.279	-0.2
1983	103	268	245	30	58	6	3	10	38	19	29	1	2	.237	.287	.408	.695	83.4	85.5	.310	-0.5
1984	122	438	403	50	120	23	7	9	50	28	39	0	1	.298	.343	.457	.800	116.5	119.8	.350	1.2
1985	110	330	300	32	80	21	1	4	45	22	28	2	1	.267	.317	.383	.700	88.0	91.9	.309	-0.4
1986	106	361	336	35	93	14	2	9	46	23	34	0	3	.277	.321	.411	.732	95.5	97.6	.324	0.0
1987	21	53	50	3	9	4	0	2	4	3	8	0	0	.180	.226	.380	.606	47.0	56.3	.254	-0.3

Career totals

1,755

454th-most career G

6,458

5,829

733

1,619

267

493rd-most career 3B

130

RBI

745

500

715

.2777

OBP

.3343

SLG

.4121

OPS

.7464

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
1974-08-16	CWS @ NYY Gameday	7	2	5	0	0	2	3	0	11
1974-06-30	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	2	5	2	1	0	2	0	9
1974-08-04	TEX @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	5	0	9
1974-06-18	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1978-04-12	TOR @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9

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

2× 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.