Luis Alvarado
Boston Red Sox 1968–1970; Chicago White Sox 1971–1974; Cleveland Indians 1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1976; Detroit Tigers 1977; New York Mets 1977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 11 | 49 | 46 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .167 | .174 | .341 | -17.3 | 0.6 | .165 | -0.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1970 | 59 | 196 | 183 | 19 | 41 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 30 | 1 | 2 | .224 | .258 | .301 | .558 | 38.8 | 49.3 | .253 | -0.6 |
| 1971 | 99 | 278 | 264 | 22 | 57 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 34 | 1 | 2 | .216 | .246 | .277 | .523 | 36.4 | 46.7 | .242 | -0.8 |
| 1972 | 103 | 269 | 254 | 30 | 54 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 13 | 36 | 2 | 2 | .213 | .254 | .283 | .537 | 46.5 | 59.1 | .247 | -0.2 |
| 1973 | 80 | 211 | 203 | 21 | 47 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 20 | 6 | 2 | .232 | .250 | .286 | .536 | 42.2 | 49.1 | .249 | -0.5 |
| 1974 | 86 | 175 | 160 | 16 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .194 | .229 | .219 | .448 | 23.4 | 29.5 | .215 | -0.8 |
| 1976 | 16 | 45 | 42 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .333 | .310 | .643 | 79.6 | 83.5 | .301 | 0.1 |
| 1977 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972-06-11 | MIL @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1972-08-17 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1970-04-29 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1972-09-19 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1972-08-20 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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.