Leo Cardenas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 17, 1938 · Matanzas, Matanzas, Cuba

MLB debutJuly 25, 1960

Final gameSeptember 26, 1975

Seasons16 (1960–1975)

Cincinnati Reds 1960–1968; Minnesota Twins 1969–1971; California Angels 1972; Cleveland Indians 1973; Texas Rangers 1974–1975

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified batters

150

76.6

602

58.6

551

68.5

123

32.4

3.6

18.9

26.1

RBI

23.4

22.5

39.6

10.8

71.2

.223

7.2

OBP

.272

2.7

SLG

.283

7.2

OPS

.555

3.6

wRC+

65.4

8.1

OPS+

70.1

wOBA

.264

2.7

sWAR

0.6

11.7

of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.3

16.5

OPS+

88.8

21.1

sWAR

21.6

94.2

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
1960	48	153	142	13	33	2	4	1	12	6	32	0	0	.232	.264	.324	.587	56.0	59.0	.268	-0.1
1961	74	216	198	23	61	18	1	5	24	15	39	1	0	.308	.353	.485	.838	120.6	119.7	.369	1.6
1962	153	647	589	77	173	31	4	10	60	39	99	2	5	.294	.341	.411	.752	99.5	99.7	.339	2.9
1963	158	601	565	42	133	22	4	7	48	23	101	3	5	.235	.270	.326	.595	64.2	70.0	.269	0.3
1964	163	652	597	61	150	32	2	9	69	41	110	4	4	.251	.299	.357	.656	77.6	82.0	.293	1.3
1965	156	626	557	65	160	25	11	11	57	60	100	1	4	.287	.355	.431	.786	109.1	115.0	.343	3.6
1966	160	624	568	59	145	25	4	20	81	45	87	9	4	.255	.309	.419	.728	86.6	93.7	.315	1.9
1967	108	418	379	30	97	14	3	2	21	34	77	4	5	.256	.320	.325	.644	67.6	76.6	.289	0.4
1968	137	499	452	45	106	13	2	7	41	36	83	2	1	.235	.292	.319	.611	67.3	79.0	.275	0.6
1969	160	665	578	67	162	24	4	10	70	66	96	5	6	.280	.353	.388	.741	105.5	107.0	.340	3.5
1970	160	649	588	67	145	34	4	11	65	42	101	2	5	.247	.300	.374	.674	83.5	84.9	.309	1.7
1971	153	624	554	59	146	25	4	18	75	51	69	3	3	.264	.321	.421	.741	106.0	108.0	.337	3.4
1972	150	602	551	25	123	11	2	6	42	35	73	1	2	.223	.272	.283	.555	65.4	70.1	.264	0.6
1973	72	212	195	9	42	4	0	0	12	13	42	1	4	.215	.264	.236	.500	38.7	41.4	.242	-0.4
1974	34	95	92	5	25	3	0	0	7	2	14	1	0	.272	.287	.304	.592	65.2	71.9	.272	0.0
1975	55	119	102	15	24	2	0	1	5	14	12	0	0	.235	.328	.284	.612	81.9	75.4	.301	0.3

Career totals

1,941

302nd-most career G

7,402

378th-most career PA

6,707

357th-most career AB

662

1,725

465th-most career H

285

118

RBI

689

522

1,135

279th-most career SO

.2572

OBP

.3114

SLG

.3671

OPS

.6785

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
1966-06-05	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1966-06-05	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1964-05-06	CIN @ NYM Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	4	0	8
1970-07-11	MIN @ LAA Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	1	0	8
1966-05-31	SF @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	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.

Honors

1× Gold Glove5× 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.