MLB / Players

Jose Cruz

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornAugust 8, 1947 · Arroyo, P.R.

MLB debutSeptember 19, 1970

Final gameJuly 19, 1988

Seasons19 (1970–1988)

St. Louis Cardinals 1970–1974; Houston Astros 1975–1987; New York Yankees 1988

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

141

536

15.9

479

16.7

3.2

133

29.4

25.4

54.8

30.2

RBI

46.8

50.8

38.9

20.6

57.1

.278

62.7

OBP

.351

63.5

SLG

.403

OPS

.754

41.3

wRC+

110.0

46.8

OPS+

111.4

wOBA

.342

42.9

sWAR

1.7

30.2

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.0

OPS+

120.5

80.2

sWAR

41.6

98.1

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
1970	6	22	17	2	6	1	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	.353	.500	.412	.912	164.0	146.1	.440	0.2
1971	83	346	292	46	80	13	2	9	27	49	35	6	3	.274	.377	.425	.801	127.7	123.7	.369	2.5
1972	117	374	332	33	78	14	4	2	23	36	54	9	3	.235	.309	.319	.628	81.3	80.8	.297	0.5
1973	132	471	406	51	92	22	5	10	57	51	66	10	4	.227	.310	.379	.689	91.5	91.7	.317	1.0
1974	107	182	161	24	42	4	3	5	20	20	27	4	2	.261	.341	.416	.757	109.0	113.1	.346	0.5
1975	120	377	315	44	81	15	2	9	49	52	44	6	3	.257	.358	.403	.761	118.6	118.3	.355	1.6
1976	133	496	439	49	133	21	5	4	61	53	46	28	11	.303	.377	.401	.777	133.1	130.1	.366	3.0
1977	157	661	579	87	173	31	10	17	87	69	67	44	23	.299	.368	.475	.843	130.8	134.0	.372	3.9
1978	153	627	565	79	178	34	9	10	83	57	57	37	9	.315	.376	.460	.836	143.0	141.9	.382	4.6
1979	157	636	558	73	161	33	7	9	72	72	66	36	14	.289	.367	.421	.788	120.0	121.5	.356	2.8
1980	160	680	612	79	185	29	7	11	91	60	66	36	11	.302	.360	.426	.787	126.2	127.8	.357	3.5
1981	107	451	409	53	109	16	5	13	55	35	49	5	7	.267	.319	.425	.745	113.0	115.1	.340	1.6
1982	155	640	570	62	157	27	2	9	68	60	67	21	11	.275	.342	.377	.719	107.3	108.6	.330	1.9
1983	160	664	594	85	189	28	8	14	92	65	86	30	16	.318	.385	.463	.848	143.0	141.6	.386	4.9
1984	160	685	600	96	187	28	13	12	95	73	68	22	8	.312	.381	.462	.842	143.6	143.9	.383	5.1
1985	141	590	544	69	163	34	4	9	79	43	74	16	5	.300	.349	.426	.776	118.8	120.0	.350	2.6
1986	141	536	479	48	133	22	4	10	72	55	86	3	4	.278	.351	.403	.754	110.0	111.4	.342	1.7
1987	126	405	365	47	88	17	4	11	38	36	65	4	1	.241	.307	.400	.707	89.1	89.9	.316	0.3
1988	38	88	80	9	16	2	0	1	7	8	8	0	1	.200	.273	.263	.535	49.8	51.7	.250	-0.4

Career totals

2,353

102nd-most career G

8,931

170th-most career PA

7,917

165th-most career AB

1,036

324th-most career R

2,251

173rd-most career H

391

224th-most career 2B

194th-most career 3B

165

RBI

1,077

239th-most career RBI

898

185th-most career BB

1,031

366th-most career SO

317

155th-most career SB

.2843

OBP

.3544

SLG

.4200

OPS

.7744

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1975-08-24	HOU @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1983-08-15	HOU @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1977-07-04	HOU @ SD Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	4	1	9
1987-08-11	HOU @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1980-06-30	HOU @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	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× Silver Slugger2× 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.