Junior Ortiz
Pittsburgh Pirates 1982; New York Mets 1983; Pittsburgh Pirates 1983; New York Mets 1984; Pittsburgh Pirates 1985–1989; Minnesota Twins 1990–1991; Cleveland Indians 1992–1993; Texas Rangers 1994
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .250 | .267 | .517 | 40.4 | 42.9 | .247 | 0.0 |
| 1983 | 73 | 200 | 193 | 11 | 48 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 34 | 1 | 0 | .249 | .268 | .275 | .542 | 47.6 | 51.3 | .255 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 40 | 98 | 91 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .198 | .235 | .231 | .465 | 28.3 | 32.9 | .222 | -0.2 |
| 1985 | 23 | 76 | 72 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .292 | .320 | .361 | .681 | 88.4 | 91.4 | .310 | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 49 | 122 | 110 | 11 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .336 | .380 | .391 | .771 | 116.1 | 111.3 | .359 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 75 | 213 | 192 | 16 | 52 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 15 | 23 | 0 | 2 | .271 | .322 | .339 | .661 | 75.9 | 75.2 | .303 | 0.7 |
| 1988 | 49 | 132 | 118 | 8 | 33 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 4 | .280 | .336 | .381 | .717 | 110.9 | 107.4 | .334 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 91 | 258 | 230 | 16 | 50 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 20 | 20 | 2 | 2 | .217 | .282 | .265 | .548 | 57.5 | 60.6 | .256 | 0.3 |
| 1990 | 71 | 187 | 170 | 18 | 57 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 4 | .335 | .384 | .388 | .772 | 117.2 | 112.0 | .360 | 1.6 |
| 1991 | 61 | 151 | 134 | 9 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 1 | .209 | .293 | .261 | .555 | 56.0 | 52.9 | .269 | 0.2 |
| 1992 | 86 | 262 | 244 | 20 | 61 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 12 | 23 | 1 | 3 | .250 | .296 | .279 | .575 | 64.1 | 63.8 | .274 | 0.5 |
| 1993 | 95 | 270 | 249 | 19 | 55 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 11 | 26 | 1 | 0 | .221 | .267 | .273 | .540 | 43.8 | 46.1 | .252 | -0.1 |
| 1994 | 29 | 86 | 76 | 3 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 1 | .276 | .329 | .303 | .632 | 69.7 | 66.0 | .295 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-10-02 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1989-07-30 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1986-08-30 | PIT @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1987-09-16 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1990-06-17 | MIN @ KC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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.