Luis Polonia

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 155 lb

BornDecember 10, 1963 · Santiago, Santiago, D.R.

MLB debutApril 24, 1987

Final gameOctober 1, 2000

Seasons12 (1987–2000)

Oakland Athletics 1987–1988; New York Yankees 1989; Oakland Athletics 1989; California Angels 1990; New York Yankees 1990; California Angels 1991–1993; New York Yankees 1994; Atlanta Braves 1995; New York Yankees 1995; Atlanta Braves 1996; Baltimore Orioles 1996; Detroit Tigers 1999–2000; New York Yankees 2000

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified batters

11.5

394

26.9

350

28.2

109

49.4

51.3

91.7

0.6

RBI

19.9

82.1

3.2

.311

76.9

OBP

.383

SLG

.414

32.1

OPS

.797

48.1

wRC+

114.1

60.9

OPS+

110.2

55.1

wOBA

.362

55.8

sWAR

1.6

48.7

of 157 qualified 1994 batters (min 350 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.8

37.4

OPS+

97.4

36.5

sWAR

9.6

86.4

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
1987	125	469	435	78	125	16	10	4	49	32	64	29	7	.287	.335	.398	.733	101.0	100.1	.326	1.4
1988	84	313	288	51	84	11	4	2	27	21	40	24	9	.292	.338	.378	.716	107.2	105.4	.329	0.9
1989	125	466	433	70	130	17	6	3	46	25	44	22	8	.300	.338	.388	.726	108.0	107.5	.334	1.4
1990	120	436	403	52	135	7	9	2	35	25	43	21	14	.335	.372	.412	.784	124.3	122.3	.360	2.3
1991	150	662	604	92	179	28	8	2	50	52	74	48	23	.296	.352	.379	.731	105.1	103.6	.335	1.9
1992	149	635	577	83	165	17	4	0	35	45	64	51	21	.286	.337	.329	.666	87.6	88.0	.310	0.1
1993	152	637	576	75	156	17	6	1	32	48	53	55	24	.271	.328	.326	.654	73.5	74.4	.302	-0.6
1994	95	394	350	62	109	21	6	1	36	37	36	20	12	.311	.383	.414	.797	114.1	110.2	.362	1.6
1995	95	326	291	43	76	16	3	2	17	28	38	13	4	.261	.322	.357	.679	78.9	78.4	.309	-0.1
1996	80	220	206	28	55	4	1	2	16	11	23	9	7	.267	.306	.325	.631	62.6	62.6	.287	-0.6
1999	87	355	333	46	108	21	8	10	32	16	32	17	9	.324	.357	.526	.882	122.4	122.6	.382	1.5
2000	117	383	344	48	95	14	5	7	30	29	32	12	7	.276	.329	.407	.736	87.1	88.1	.325	-0.1

Career totals

1,379

5,296

4,840

728

1,417

189

398th-most career 3B

RBI

405

369

543

321

146th-most career SB

.2928

348th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3425

SLG

.3831

OPS

.7256

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
1987-09-23	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	1	2	1	9
1988-08-19	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1999-07-23	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	2	1	8
1988-09-09	ATH @ KC Gameday	5	5	5	0	1	0	3	1	7
1991-05-13	LAA @ CLE Gameday	6	3	5	0	1	0	3	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.