Otto Velez
New York Yankees 1973–1976; Toronto Blue Jays 1977–1982; Cleveland Indians 1983
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 23 | 92 | 77 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .195 | .326 | .325 | .651 | 95.6 | 87.9 | .317 | 0.2 |
| 1974 | 27 | 84 | 67 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .345 | .343 | .689 | 105.2 | 101.2 | .328 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 108.2 | 90.0 | .337 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 49 | 117 | 94 | 11 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .410 | .394 | .804 | 149.7 | 139.0 | .388 | 0.8 |
| 1977 | 120 | 434 | 360 | 50 | 92 | 19 | 3 | 16 | 62 | 65 | 87 | 4 | 2 | .256 | .366 | .458 | .824 | 125.0 | 121.6 | .370 | 2.1 |
| 1978 | 91 | 300 | 248 | 29 | 66 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 38 | 45 | 41 | 1 | 3 | .266 | .380 | .448 | .828 | 135.7 | 129.5 | .381 | 1.8 |
| 1979 | 99 | 325 | 274 | 45 | 79 | 21 | 0 | 15 | 48 | 46 | 45 | 0 | 1 | .288 | .396 | .529 | .925 | 148.7 | 145.6 | .412 | 2.5 |
| 1980 | 104 | 417 | 357 | 54 | 96 | 12 | 3 | 20 | 62 | 54 | 86 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .365 | .487 | .852 | 126.9 | 128.0 | .377 | 1.6 |
| 1981 | 80 | 302 | 240 | 32 | 51 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 28 | 55 | 60 | 0 | 3 | .213 | .363 | .404 | .768 | 123.4 | 117.0 | .360 | 0.9 |
| 1982 | 28 | 65 | 52 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .192 | .354 | .269 | .623 | 81.3 | 69.0 | .311 | -0.2 |
| 1983 | 10 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .080 | .179 | .080 | .259 | -28.0 | -26.7 | .144 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-05-04 | CLE @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| 1977-04-25 | BOS @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1981-06-03 | LAA @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1979-07-26 | TEX @ TOR Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 1977-06-05 | TOR @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
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.