Jose Cardenal

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 150 lb

BornOctober 7, 1943 · Matanzas, Matanzas, Cuba

MLB debutApril 14, 1963

Final gameOctober 3, 1980

Seasons18 (1963–1980)

San Francisco Giants 1963–1964; California Angels 1965–1967; Cleveland Indians 1968–1969; St. Louis Cardinals 1970; Milwaukee Brewers 1971; St. Louis Cardinals 1971; Chicago Cubs 1972–1977; Philadelphia Phillies 1978; New York Mets 1979; Philadelphia Phillies 1979; Kansas City Royals 1980; New York Mets 1980

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified batters

136

14.4

560

25.4

521

38.1

156

65.3

58.5

19.5

44.1

RBI

22.9

19.5

86.4

74.6

.299

78.8

OBP

.339

55.9

SLG

.401

54.2

OPS

.740

51.7

wRC+

104.3

37.3

OPS+

102.1

37.3

wOBA

.347

53.4

sWAR

1.5

28.8

of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.1

50.1

OPS+

102.6

46.9

sWAR

25.3

95.5

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	9	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	72.5	59.4	.276	0.0
1964	20	17	15	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	.000	.118	.000	.118	-64.7	-63.5	.087	-0.4
1965	134	550	512	58	128	23	2	11	57	27	72	37	17	.250	.287	.367	.654	87.6	89.7	.297	1.3
1966	154	606	561	67	155	15	3	16	48	34	69	24	11	.276	.320	.399	.719	107.7	108.6	.322	2.9
1967	108	405	381	40	90	13	5	6	27	15	63	10	5	.236	.268	.344	.612	80.1	82.7	.282	0.3
1968	157	629	583	78	150	21	7	7	44	39	74	40	18	.257	.305	.353	.658	100.5	100.7	.306	2.5
1969	146	616	557	75	143	26	3	11	45	49	58	36	6	.257	.314	.373	.687	88.4	89.8	.318	1.5
1970	148	599	552	73	162	32	6	10	74	45	70	26	9	.293	.348	.428	.775	108.8	105.5	.356	2.9
1971	142	558	499	57	124	22	4	10	80	42	55	21	8	.248	.300	.369	.669	85.6	87.8	.308	0.5
1972	143	593	533	96	155	24	6	17	70	55	58	25	14	.291	.356	.454	.810	125.5	120.6	.372	3.1
1973	145	593	522	80	158	33	2	11	68	58	62	19	7	.303	.375	.437	.812	121.3	118.6	.371	2.7
1974	143	604	542	75	159	35	3	13	72	56	67	23	9	.293	.359	.441	.800	121.9	118.8	.373	2.9
1975	154	666	574	85	182	30	2	9	68	77	50	34	12	.317	.397	.423	.821	129.4	123.1	.386	3.7
1976	136	560	521	64	156	25	2	8	47	32	39	23	14	.299	.339	.401	.740	104.3	102.1	.347	1.5
1977	100	258	226	33	54	12	1	3	18	28	30	5	4	.239	.324	.341	.665	71.6	71.1	.309	-0.3
1978	87	226	201	27	50	12	0	4	33	23	16	2	3	.249	.323	.368	.691	94.7	93.7	.322	0.1
1979	40	100	85	12	21	7	0	2	13	14	11	2	0	.247	.360	.400	.760	113.3	109.2	.354	0.3
1980	51	110	95	12	25	3	0	0	9	11	9	0	1	.263	.327	.295	.622	76.7	73.3	.295	-0.2

Career totals

2,017

239th-most career G

7,696

338th-most career PA

6,964

316th-most career AB

936

436th-most career R

1,913

344th-most career H

333

370th-most career 2B

138

RBI

775

608

807

329

131st-most career SB

.2747

OBP

.3325

SLG

.3952

OPS

.7277

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
1976-05-02	CHC @ SF Gameday	7	2	6	1	0	1	4	0	10
1972-09-16	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1968-08-25	CLE @ TEX Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1976-06-10	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1966-05-31	CLE @ LAA Gameday	8	1	5	0	0	1	3	0	8

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.