Orlando Palmeiro
California Angels 1995–1996; Anaheim Angels 1997–2002; St. Louis Cardinals 2003; Houston Astros 2004–2007
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 15 | 21 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .350 | .381 | .350 | .731 | 96.8 | 93.3 | .338 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 50 | 98 | 87 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .287 | .361 | .379 | .740 | 90.1 | 88.2 | .335 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | 74 | 156 | 134 | 19 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 2 | .216 | .307 | .261 | .568 | 53.6 | 51.4 | .269 | -0.4 |
| 1998 | 75 | 192 | 165 | 28 | 53 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | .321 | .395 | .388 | .782 | 110.4 | 105.7 | .356 | 0.6 |
| 1999 | 109 | 371 | 317 | 46 | 88 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 39 | 30 | 5 | 5 | .278 | .364 | .331 | .696 | 85.9 | 80.9 | .324 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 108 | 296 | 243 | 38 | 73 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 38 | 20 | 4 | 1 | .300 | .395 | .399 | .794 | 107.8 | 102.1 | .363 | 0.7 |
| 2001 | 104 | 270 | 230 | 29 | 56 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 6 | 6 | .243 | .319 | .322 | .641 | 70.6 | 70.5 | .290 | -0.7 |
| 2002 | 110 | 300 | 263 | 35 | 79 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 30 | 22 | 7 | 2 | .300 | .368 | .354 | .722 | 99.7 | 96.1 | .328 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 141 | 364 | 317 | 37 | 86 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 32 | 31 | 3 | 3 | .271 | .336 | .347 | .683 | 82.1 | 82.4 | .309 | -0.1 |
| 2004 | 102 | 156 | 133 | 19 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 1 | .241 | .344 | .346 | .690 | 84.0 | 79.9 | .318 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 114 | 231 | 204 | 22 | 58 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 23 | 3 | 1 | .284 | .341 | .431 | .772 | 101.7 | 101.7 | .341 | 0.4 |
| 2006 | 103 | 128 | 119 | 12 | 30 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .252 | .294 | .319 | .613 | 58.5 | 59.2 | .278 | -0.4 |
| 2007 | 101 | 122 | 103 | 12 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 1 | .233 | .342 | .262 | .604 | 65.7 | 60.5 | .290 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-04-14 | STL @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 2000-08-22 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2007-06-19 | HOU @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2002-06-02 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2003-09-07 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.