Minnie Miñoso

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 29, 1923 · Perico, Matanzas, Cuba

MLB debutApril 19, 1949

Final gameOctober 5, 1980

Seasons20 (1946–1980)

New York Cubans 1946–1948; Cleveland Indians 1949; Chicago White Sox 1951; Cleveland Indians 1951; Chicago White Sox 1952–1957; Cleveland Indians 1958–1959; Chicago White Sox 1960–1961; St. Louis Cardinals 1962; Washington Senators 1963; Chicago White Sox 1964; Chicago White Sox 1976; Chicago White Sox 1980

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified batters

152

61.9

635

59.5

540

52.4

73.8

151

46.4

20.2

42.9

RBI

59.5

71.4

66.7

32.1

.280

52.4

OBP

.369

70.2

SLG

.420

46.4

OPS

.789

47.6

wRC+

115.2

OPS+

113.5

54.8

wOBA

.358

53.6

sWAR

2.6

54.8

of 85 qualified 1961 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

134.2

93.5

OPS+

132.0

91.6

sWAR

54.0

99.1

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
1946	37	161	146	23	33	5	2	4	14	13	0	1	0	.226	.298	.370	.668	85.5	86.0	.319	0.3
1947	40	192	177	42	63	13	4	2	25	13	0	5	0	.356	.406	.508	.915	142.7	149.4	.425	1.8
1948	36	167	157	27	54	11	6	3	27	8	1	5	0	.344	.380	.548	.927	157.5	166.6	.427	1.9
1949	9	20	16	2	3	0	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	.188	.350	.375	.725	99.0	96.2	.354	0.0
1951	146	622	530	112	173	34	14	10	76	72	42	31	10	.326	.422	.500	.922	154.1	152.8	.427	5.8
1952	147	668	569	96	160	24	9	13	61	71	46	22	16	.281	.375	.424	.798	126.0	123.4	.375	3.9
1953	151	655	556	104	174	24	8	15	104	74	43	25	16	.313	.410	.466	.875	139.9	135.7	.405	4.6
1954	153	675	568	119	182	29	18	19	116	77	46	18	11	.320	.411	.535	.946	161.7	158.5	.429	6.6
1955	139	615	517	79	149	26	7	10	70	76	43	19	8	.288	.387	.424	.811	122.9	118.8	.380	3.0
1956	151	665	545	106	172	29	11	21	88	86	40	12	6	.316	.425	.525	.950	153.8	151.6	.430	5.8
1957	153	678	568	96	176	36	5	12	103	79	54	18	15	.310	.408	.454	.862	142.7	137.1	.395	5.0
1958	149	638	556	94	168	25	2	24	80	59	53	14	14	.302	.383	.484	.867	143.6	139.9	.390	4.8
1959	148	650	570	92	172	32	0	21	92	54	46	8	10	.302	.377	.468	.846	137.3	135.3	.382	4.4
1960	154	670	591	89	184	32	4	20	105	52	63	17	13	.311	.374	.481	.855	133.5	132.4	.384	4.2
1961	152	635	540	91	151	28	3	14	82	67	46	9	4	.280	.369	.420	.789	115.2	113.5	.358	2.6
1962	39	108	97	14	19	5	0	1	10	7	17	4	0	.196	.271	.278	.549	42.2	43.1	.261	-0.6
1963	109	363	315	38	72	12	2	4	30	33	38	8	6	.229	.315	.317	.632	79.9	77.4	.295	-0.1
1964	30	38	31	4	7	0	0	1	5	5	3	0	0	.226	.351	.323	.674	95.2	93.9	.311	0.1
1976	3	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-45.3	-26.7	.118	-0.1
1980	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.1	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,948

296th-most career G

8,230

251st-most career PA

7,059

297th-most career AB

1,228

172nd-most career R

2,113

231st-most career H

365

277th-most career 2B

186th-most career 3B

195

404th-most career HR

RBI

1,089

230th-most career RBI

848

224th-most career BB

585

216

321st-most career SB

.2993

231st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3870

134th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4608

385th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8478

202nd-highest career OPS

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
1959-04-21	CLE @ DET Gameday	6	2	5	0	0	2	6	0	11
1956-09-22	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1952-06-17	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	1	0	9
1955-04-23	CWS @ ATH Gameday	6	5	4	1	0	1	5	1	8
1959-06-14	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-04-21	PHS @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-07	NYC @ NBY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-08	NYC @ NBY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-09	NYC @ NBY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-05-11	NYC @ PHS 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

Hall of Fame, 2022 (Veterans - Golden Age Era)

3× Gold Glove9× 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.