MLB / Players

Manny Sanguillen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 193 lb

BornMarch 21, 1944 · Colon, Colón, Panama

MLB debutJuly 23, 1967

Final gameOctober 5, 1980

Seasons13 (1967–1980)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1967; Pittsburgh Pirates 1969–1976; Oakland Athletics 1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1978–1980

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

152

56.2

601

42.5

571

68.5

0.7

157

59.6

5.5

47.9

21.2

RBI

31.5

3.4

95.9

52.7

.275

40.4

OBP

.302

7.5

SLG

.354

OPS

.656

6.8

wRC+

76.7

4.8

OPS+

80.1

8.9

wOBA

.294

2.1

sWAR

0.2

4.1

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.6

38.9

OPS+

103.4

49.4

sWAR

25.6

95.5

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
1967	30	102	96	6	26	4	0	0	8	4	12	0	1	.271	.300	.313	.613	66.3	75.7	.274	0.2
1969	129	481	459	62	139	21	6	5	57	12	48	8	4	.303	.324	.407	.731	104.7	107.1	.333	2.9
1970	128	510	486	63	158	19	9	7	61	17	45	2	3	.325	.344	.444	.788	109.0	113.6	.349	3.3
1971	138	557	533	60	170	26	5	7	81	19	32	6	4	.319	.345	.426	.771	116.2	119.9	.346	4.2
1972	136	547	520	55	155	18	8	7	71	21	38	1	2	.298	.322	.404	.726	102.5	108.5	.325	3.2
1973	149	619	589	64	166	26	7	12	65	17	29	2	5	.282	.301	.411	.712	93.7	99.2	.318	2.1
1974	151	632	596	77	171	21	4	7	68	21	27	2	2	.287	.313	.371	.684	89.7	95.0	.314	2.7
1975	133	537	481	60	158	24	4	9	58	48	31	5	4	.328	.391	.451	.842	135.2	136.3	.385	5.2
1976	114	426	389	52	113	16	6	2	36	28	18	2	4	.290	.338	.378	.716	96.9	104.6	.323	2.3
1977	152	601	571	42	157	17	5	6	58	22	35	2	5	.275	.302	.354	.656	76.7	80.1	.294	0.2
1978	85	235	220	15	58	5	1	3	16	9	10	2	2	.264	.296	.336	.633	70.6	74.7	.292	-0.3
1979	56	80	74	8	17	5	2	0	4	2	5	0	0	.230	.247	.351	.598	43.9	59.2	.257	-0.2
1980	47	53	48	2	12	3	0	0	2	3	1	3	2	.250	.294	.313	.607	55.7	68.8	.268	-0.2

Career totals

1,448

5,380

5,062

566

1,500

205

RBI

585

223

331

.2963

282nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3262

SLG

.3979

OPS

.7241

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
1975-07-30	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	1	2	0	8
1970-04-28	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1971-06-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	1	2	1	7
1973-06-11	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	7
1973-06-01	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	3	2	0	1	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-05-11	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-05-14	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-05-20	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-05-30	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-06-30	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

3× 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.