Julio Cruz
Seattle Mariners 1977–1982; Chicago White Sox 1983; Seattle Mariners 1983; Chicago White Sox 1984–1986
Percentile snapshot
1983 season — qualified batters
of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 60 | 230 | 199 | 25 | 51 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 29 | 15 | 6 | .256 | .336 | .296 | .633 | 78.5 | 74.5 | .299 | 0.2 |
| 1978 | 147 | 634 | 550 | 77 | 129 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 69 | 66 | 59 | 10 | .235 | .319 | .269 | .588 | 71.3 | 67.1 | .287 | 0.3 |
| 1979 | 107 | 483 | 414 | 70 | 112 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 62 | 61 | 49 | 9 | .271 | .363 | .326 | .689 | 93.1 | 86.1 | .328 | 1.4 |
| 1980 | 119 | 497 | 422 | 66 | 88 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 59 | 49 | 45 | 7 | .209 | .306 | .258 | .564 | 61.0 | 55.7 | .276 | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 94 | 401 | 352 | 57 | 90 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 39 | 40 | 43 | 8 | .256 | .332 | .324 | .656 | 91.1 | 86.9 | .314 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 154 | 617 | 549 | 83 | 133 | 22 | 5 | 8 | 49 | 57 | 71 | 46 | 13 | .242 | .316 | .344 | .660 | 81.2 | 79.4 | .305 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 160 | 580 | 515 | 71 | 130 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 52 | 49 | 66 | 57 | 12 | .252 | .318 | .326 | .644 | 77.9 | 76.4 | .299 | 0.7 |
| 1984 | 143 | 469 | 415 | 42 | 92 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 43 | 45 | 58 | 14 | 6 | .222 | .295 | .311 | .605 | 66.9 | 66.0 | .283 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 91 | 270 | 234 | 28 | 46 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 32 | 40 | 8 | 5 | .197 | .297 | .231 | .528 | 51.2 | 45.8 | .259 | -0.5 |
| 1986 | 81 | 256 | 209 | 38 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 42 | 28 | 7 | 2 | .215 | .343 | .225 | .567 | 67.8 | 57.4 | .285 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-09-23 | CWS @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1981-09-04 | SEA @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1980-05-30 | SEA @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1977-07-08 | SEA @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1982-04-24 | MIN @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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.