MLB / Players

Jose Oquendo

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJuly 4, 1963 · Rio Piedras, P.R.

MLB debutMay 2, 1983

Final gameSeptember 29, 1995

Seasons12 (1983–1995)

New York Mets 1983–1984; St. Louis Cardinals 1986–1995

Percentile snapshot

1990 season — qualified batters

156

82.8

553

25.8

469

16.4

118

7.8

67.2

RBI

3.9

82.8

88.3

3.9

89.1

.252

22.7

OBP

.350

59.4

SLG

.316

3.9

OPS

.666

16.4

wRC+

89.3

20.3

OPS+

85.5

17.2

wOBA

.315

22.7

sWAR

1.4

26.6

of 129 qualified 1990 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

87.8

20.1

OPS+

86.0

17.1

sWAR

9.1

85.8

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
1983	120	353	328	29	70	7	0	1	17	19	60	8	9	.213	.260	.244	.504	37.5	41.2	.240	-0.9
1984	81	211	189	23	42	5	0	0	10	15	26	10	1	.222	.284	.249	.532	50.9	52.6	.255	-0.2
1986	76	158	138	20	41	4	1	0	13	15	20	2	3	.297	.359	.341	.700	93.8	96.7	.320	0.6
1987	116	312	248	43	71	9	0	1	24	54	29	4	4	.286	.408	.335	.743	106.7	99.7	.350	0.9
1988	148	518	451	36	125	10	1	7	46	52	40	4	6	.277	.350	.350	.700	104.8	102.3	.327	2.1
1989	163	650	556	59	162	28	7	1	48	79	59	3	5	.291	.375	.372	.747	117.7	112.5	.350	3.9
1990	156	553	469	38	118	17	5	1	37	74	46	1	1	.252	.350	.316	.666	89.3	85.5	.315	1.4
1991	127	441	366	37	88	11	4	1	26	67	48	1	2	.240	.357	.301	.658	88.4	87.3	.309	0.8
1992	14	40	35	3	9	3	1	0	3	5	3	0	0	.257	.350	.400	.750	115.1	115.3	.342	0.2
1993	46	89	73	7	15	0	0	0	4	12	8	0	0	.205	.314	.205	.519	50.2	44.7	.258	-0.1
1994	55	152	129	13	34	2	2	0	9	21	16	1	1	.264	.364	.310	.674	81.3	80.5	.311	0.3
1995	88	260	220	31	46	8	3	2	17	35	21	1	1	.209	.316	.300	.616	66.7	64.6	.289	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	L	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1987	1	0	4	3	1	0	1.0	27.00	5.000	0.00	8.87	215.4	15.2	0.9
1988	1	1	4	2	6	1	4.0	4.50	2.500	2.25	6.71	193.9	76.9	2.1
1991	1	0	2	3	2	1	1.0	27.00	4.000	9.00	6.79	183.6	13.7	0.8

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,190

3,737

3,202

339

821

104

RBI

254

448

376

.2564

OBP

.3455

SLG

.3170

OPS

.6625

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

12.000

WHIP

3.1667

K/9

3.00

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	TB
1989-07-01	SD @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	2	6
1988-08-19	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	4	6
1989-09-02	HOU @ STL Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	0	3	6
1990-09-10	STL @ NYM Gameday	3	0	3	0	1	0	1	5
1994-07-04	HOU @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1988-05-14	ATL @ STL Gameday	4.0	4	2	2	6	1
1991-05-08	STL @ ATL Gameday	1.0	2	3	3	2	1
1987-08-07	STL @ PHI Gameday	1.0	4	3	3	1	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.