MLB / Players

Luis Ordaz

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb
BornAugust 12, 1975 · Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela
MLB debutSeptember 3, 1997
Final gameApril 3, 2006
Seasons7 (1997–2006)

St. Louis Cardinals 1997–1999; Kansas City Royals 2000–2002; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2006

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
-1.7
2.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19971223223610011230.273.304.318.62363.464.6.2860.0
1998571691539315008121820.203.261.235.49628.732.5.232-0.7
1999101193100021210.111.200.111.311-19.4-18.1.164-0.1
20006511710417232001151042.221.257.240.49721.125.6.229-0.5
200128635681430043800.250.295.304.59950.853.4.271-0.1
2002331119411212004121323.223.308.245.55344.743.4.264-0.3
20061220000000000.000.000.000.000-121.3-100.0.0000.0

Career totals

G
206
PA
496
AB
440
R
51
H
96
2B
13
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
30
BB
34
SO
53
SB
12
BA
.2182
OBP
.2744
SLG
.2477
OPS
.5221

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1997-09-20STL @ PIT Gameday413100004
1998-09-14PIT @ STL Gameday413000003
2000-06-24KC @ ATH Gameday312100303
2001-04-29KC @ BOS Gameday212100113
1998-09-23HOU @ STL Gameday202100013

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.