Luis Melendez
St. Louis Cardinals 1970–1975; San Diego Padres 1976; St. Louis Cardinals 1976; San Diego Padres 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 21 | 73 | 70 | 11 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 0 | .300 | .315 | .314 | .629 | 67.0 | 68.4 | .292 | -0.1 |
| 1971 | 88 | 200 | 173 | 25 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 24 | 29 | 2 | 0 | .225 | .320 | .254 | .574 | 66.7 | 62.4 | .284 | -0.4 |
| 1972 | 118 | 360 | 332 | 32 | 79 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 25 | 34 | 5 | 4 | .238 | .292 | .334 | .627 | 80.2 | 79.7 | .295 | 0.2 |
| 1973 | 121 | 376 | 341 | 35 | 91 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 27 | 50 | 2 | 7 | .267 | .319 | .343 | .662 | 86.0 | 85.2 | .309 | 0.5 |
| 1974 | 83 | 140 | 124 | 15 | 27 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2 | .218 | .283 | .298 | .581 | 64.7 | 64.3 | .280 | -0.2 |
| 1975 | 110 | 316 | 291 | 33 | 77 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 16 | 25 | 3 | 2 | .265 | .301 | .347 | .648 | 72.9 | 77.6 | .301 | -0.1 |
| 1976 | 92 | 147 | 143 | 15 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 1 | .224 | .238 | .259 | .497 | 36.2 | 45.5 | .231 | -0.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 7.0 | -22.7 | .187 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-09-18 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1972-08-16 | STL @ SD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1972-05-02 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1972-06-24 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1973-06-13 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.