Orlando Cepeda

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornSeptember 17, 1937 · Ponce, P.R.

MLB debutApril 15, 1958

Final gameSeptember 19, 1974

Seasons17 (1958–1974)

San Francisco Giants 1958–1966; St. Louis Cardinals 1966–1968; Atlanta Braves 1969–1972; Oakland Athletics 1972; Boston Red Sox 1973; Kansas City Royals 1974

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

142

19.3

608

550

49.1

159

68.4

56.1

63.2

RBI

71.1

41.2

38.6

66.7

.289

74.6

OBP

.350

58.8

SLG

.444

67.5

OPS

.793

65.8

wRC+

114.6

OPS+

117.7

wOBA

.356

59.6

sWAR

1.4

24.6

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

132.1

92.1

OPS+

133.7

sWAR

44.6

98.4

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
1958	148	644	603	88	188	38	4	25	96	29	84	15	11	.312	.342	.512	.854	122.2	124.1	.368	2.7
1959	151	647	605	92	192	35	4	27	105	33	100	23	9	.317	.355	.522	.878	134.7	136.7	.380	3.7
1960	151	615	569	81	169	36	3	24	96	34	91	15	6	.297	.343	.497	.840	132.2	134.3	.367	3.4
1961	152	636	585	105	182	28	4	46	142	39	91	12	8	.311	.362	.609	.970	154.0	157.2	.413	5.3
1962	162	676	625	105	191	26	1	35	114	37	97	10	4	.306	.347	.518	.865	128.4	131.7	.377	3.3
1963	156	629	579	100	183	33	4	34	97	37	70	8	3	.316	.366	.563	.929	167.4	166.1	.406	5.8
1964	142	587	529	75	161	27	2	31	97	43	83	9	4	.304	.361	.539	.900	150.1	149.4	.394	4.4
1965	33	40	34	1	6	1	0	1	5	3	9	0	0	.176	.225	.294	.519	27.1	44.7	.219	-0.3
1966	142	563	501	70	151	26	0	20	73	38	79	9	9	.301	.361	.473	.834	127.5	128.9	.364	2.6
1967	151	644	563	91	183	37	0	25	111	62	75	11	2	.325	.399	.524	.923	165.0	166.1	.408	5.7
1968	157	656	600	71	149	26	2	16	73	43	96	8	6	.248	.306	.378	.685	105.2	107.8	.314	1.1
1969	154	636	573	74	147	28	2	22	88	55	76	12	5	.257	.325	.428	.753	107.6	109.5	.341	1.3
1970	148	627	567	87	173	33	0	34	111	47	75	6	5	.305	.365	.543	.908	133.6	135.1	.399	3.4
1971	71	276	250	31	69	10	1	14	44	22	29	3	6	.276	.330	.492	.822	119.2	124.1	.361	1.0
1972	31	94	87	6	25	3	0	4	9	7	17	0	0	.287	.340	.460	.800	119.9	117.0	.363	0.3
1973	142	608	550	51	159	25	0	20	86	50	81	0	2	.289	.350	.444	.793	114.6	117.7	.356	1.4
1974	33	117	107	3	23	5	0	1	18	9	16	1	0	.215	.282	.290	.572	61.8	61.7	.275	-0.5

Career totals

2,124

184th-most career G

8,695

191st-most career PA

7,927

162nd-most career AB

1,131

239th-most career R

2,351

140th-most career H

417

164th-most career 2B

379

75th-most career HR

RBI

1,365

87th-most career RBI

588

1,169

254th-most career SO

142

.2966

274th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3499

SLG

.4994

127th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8493

200th-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	HR	RBI	TB
1970-07-26	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	7	13
1962-08-24	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	2	5	0	2	4	11
1959-06-04	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	7	11
1961-07-04	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	2	5	2	1	8	10
1961-05-15	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	5	10

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, 1999 (Veterans)

1× Rookie of the Year1× Most Valuable Player7× 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.