MLB / Players

Lou Piniella

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 182 lb

BornAugust 28, 1943 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1964

Final gameJune 16, 1984

Seasons18 (1964–1984)

Baltimore Orioles 1964; Cleveland Indians 1968; Kansas City Royals 1969–1973; New York Yankees 1974–1984

Percentile snapshot

1978 season — qualified batters

130

7.2

513

472

12.2

34.5

148

54.7

88.5

58.3

24.5

RBI

50.4

92.8

21.6

86.3

.314

95.7

OBP

.361

71.9

SLG

.445

69.8

OPS

.806

72.7

wRC+

128.8

72.7

OPS+

130.1

74.1

wOBA

.363

69.1

sWAR

2.7

48.2

of 140 qualified 1978 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.1

53.9

OPS+

109.1

60.6

sWAR

16.2

91.7

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
1964	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.3	-100.0	.000	0.0
1968	6	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.6	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1969	135	539	493	43	139	21	6	11	68	33	56	2	4	.282	.325	.416	.741	104.2	105.9	.338	1.4
1970	144	586	542	54	163	24	5	11	88	35	42	3	6	.301	.342	.424	.767	109.6	111.0	.346	1.9
1971	126	476	448	43	125	21	5	3	51	21	43	5	3	.279	.311	.368	.679	90.2	94.0	.311	0.4
1972	151	624	574	65	179	33	4	11	72	34	59	7	2	.312	.356	.441	.797	136.7	134.2	.366	3.9
1973	144	553	513	53	128	28	1	9	69	30	65	5	7	.250	.291	.361	.652	72.2	79.0	.295	-0.7
1974	140	567	518	71	158	26	0	9	70	32	58	1	8	.305	.341	.407	.748	113.8	117.3	.340	2.1
1975	74	221	199	7	39	4	1	0	22	16	22	0	0	.196	.262	.226	.489	37.0	41.2	.233	-1.3
1976	100	351	327	36	92	16	6	3	38	18	34	0	1	.281	.322	.394	.716	105.1	111.4	.325	0.6
1977	103	369	339	47	112	19	3	12	45	20	31	2	2	.330	.365	.510	.876	138.4	139.3	.384	2.2
1978	130	513	472	67	148	34	5	6	69	34	36	3	1	.314	.361	.445	.806	128.8	130.1	.363	2.7
1979	130	491	461	49	137	22	2	11	69	17	31	3	2	.297	.320	.425	.745	97.5	102.6	.326	0.8
1980	116	355	321	39	92	18	0	2	27	29	20	0	2	.287	.343	.361	.704	95.5	96.5	.321	0.4
1981	60	174	159	16	44	9	0	5	18	13	9	0	1	.277	.331	.428	.759	116.1	120.4	.340	0.5
1982	102	283	261	33	80	17	1	6	37	18	18	0	1	.307	.352	.448	.801	117.6	121.1	.351	0.7
1983	53	160	148	19	43	9	1	2	16	11	12	1	1	.291	.344	.405	.749	107.4	109.7	.333	0.5
1984	29	93	86	8	26	4	1	1	6	7	5	0	0	.302	.355	.407	.762	115.8	115.3	.344	0.3

Career totals

1,747

467th-most career G

6,362

5,867

651

1,705

479th-most career H

305

472nd-most career 2B

102

RBI

766

368

541

.2906

388th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3325

SLG

.4087

OPS

.7412

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
1978-09-08	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1982-09-04	NYY @ KC Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1978-07-14	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	2	1	8
1969-06-11	KC @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	3	0	7
1977-08-26	TEX @ NYY Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

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× Rookie of the Year1× 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.