MLB / Players

Luis Aparicio

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornApril 29, 1934 · Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela

MLB debutApril 17, 1956

Final gameSeptember 28, 1973

Seasons18 (1956–1973)

Chicago White Sox 1956–1962; Baltimore Orioles 1963–1967; Chicago White Sox 1968–1970; Boston Red Sox 1971–1973

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

132

3.5

561

16.7

499

14.9

135

23.7

15.8

9.6

RBI

17.5

27.2

95.6

71.9

78.9

.271

45.6

OBP

.324

29.8

SLG

.309

4.4

OPS

.633

8.8

wRC+

75.6

9.6

OPS+

75.5

7.9

wOBA

.300

13.2

sWAR

1.0

14.9

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

82.4

13.1

OPS+

83.1

13.1

sWAR

28.1

96.1

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
1956	152	583	533	69	142	19	6	3	56	34	63	21	4	.266	.311	.341	.653	71.2	73.6	.304	0.6
1957	143	640	575	82	148	22	6	3	41	52	55	28	8	.257	.317	.332	.649	79.4	79.1	.304	1.3
1958	145	604	557	76	148	20	9	2	40	35	38	29	6	.266	.309	.345	.653	81.6	83.3	.299	1.4
1959	152	686	612	98	157	18	5	6	51	53	40	56	13	.257	.316	.332	.647	81.5	80.8	.300	1.5
1960	153	670	600	86	166	20	7	2	61	43	39	51	8	.277	.323	.343	.666	81.3	82.7	.307	1.5
1961	156	672	625	90	170	24	4	6	45	38	33	53	13	.272	.313	.352	.665	79.1	80.1	.304	1.3
1962	153	622	581	72	140	23	5	7	40	32	36	31	12	.241	.280	.334	.614	63.1	66.4	.278	0.0
1963	146	651	601	73	150	18	8	5	45	36	35	40	6	.250	.291	.331	.623	76.5	78.6	.283	1.1
1964	146	642	578	93	154	20	3	10	37	49	51	57	17	.266	.324	.363	.688	95.1	93.2	.315	2.6
1965	144	629	564	67	127	20	10	8	40	46	56	26	7	.225	.286	.339	.625	77.4	77.0	.290	1.2
1966	151	707	659	97	182	25	8	6	41	33	42	25	11	.276	.311	.366	.676	95.9	96.0	.307	2.9
1967	134	587	546	55	127	22	5	4	31	29	44	18	5	.233	.270	.313	.583	69.7	73.6	.270	0.6
1968	157	664	622	55	164	24	4	4	36	33	43	17	11	.264	.302	.334	.636	91.3	92.5	.297	2.6
1969	156	681	599	77	168	24	5	5	51	66	29	24	4	.280	.352	.362	.714	99.3	95.3	.338	3.0
1970	146	616	552	86	173	29	3	5	43	53	34	8	3	.313	.372	.404	.776	114.4	110.1	.359	4.0
1971	125	541	491	56	114	23	0	4	45	35	43	6	4	.232	.284	.303	.587	59.4	62.4	.279	-0.1
1972	110	474	436	47	112	26	3	3	39	26	28	3	3	.257	.299	.351	.649	88.0	88.9	.306	1.6
1973	132	561	499	56	135	17	1	0	49	43	33	13	1	.271	.324	.309	.633	75.6	75.5	.300	1.0

Career totals

2,601

43rd-most career G

11,230

36th-most career PA

10,230

26th-most career AB

1,335

116th-most career R

2,677

72nd-most career H

394

213th-most career 2B

205th-most career 3B

RBI

791

736

338th-most career BB

742

506

38th-most career SB

.2617

OBP

.3108

SLG

.3425

OPS

.6533

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
1957-09-07	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1965-04-22	BAL @ TEX Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	4	1	8
1961-08-05	TEX @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1963-04-19	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1958-08-06	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	1	4	0	2	0	1	0	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

Hall of Fame, 1984 (BBWAA)

9× Gold Glove1× Rookie of the Year10× 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.