MLB / Players

Ozzie Virgil

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 7, 1956 · Mayaguez, P.R.

MLB debutOctober 5, 1980

Final gameApril 24, 1990

Seasons11 (1980–1990)

Philadelphia Phillies 1980–1985; Atlanta Braves 1986–1988; Toronto Blue Jays 1989–1990

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

141

512

2.5

456

2.5

19.3

119

20.2

18.5

62.2

RBI

42.9

25.2

3.4

86.6

.261

25.2

OBP

.331

SLG

.434

50.4

OPS

.765

55.5

wRC+

112.6

54.6

OPS+

112.8

55.5

wOBA

.348

58.8

sWAR

3.8

69.7

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

15.2

91.1

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
1980	1	5	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.400	.600	52.1	61.2	.266	0.0
1981	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.8	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1982	49	111	101	11	24	6	0	3	8	10	26	0	1	.238	.306	.386	.692	95.7	92.8	.323	0.6
1983	55	151	140	11	30	7	0	6	23	8	34	0	2	.214	.272	.393	.664	83.1	83.8	.305	0.7
1984	141	512	456	61	119	21	2	18	68	45	91	1	1	.261	.331	.434	.765	112.6	112.8	.348	3.8
1985	131	483	426	47	105	16	3	19	55	49	85	0	0	.246	.330	.432	.762	109.9	109.5	.346	3.3
1986	114	431	359	45	80	9	0	15	48	63	73	1	0	.223	.343	.373	.716	96.1	92.5	.334	2.2
1987	123	486	429	57	106	13	1	27	72	47	81	0	1	.247	.331	.471	.801	104.9	104.4	.354	2.9
1988	107	350	320	23	82	10	0	9	31	22	54	2	0	.256	.313	.372	.685	93.3	91.4	.319	1.8
1989	9	15	11	2	2	1	0	1	2	4	3	0	0	.182	.400	.545	.945	171.6	167.3	.427	0.1
1990	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

739

2,555

2,258

258

549

RBI

307

248

453

.2431

OBP

.3243

SLG

.4159

OPS

.7402

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1984-05-05	CIN @ PHI Gameday	3	2	3	2	5	2	9
1985-06-03	PHI @ SD Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	0	8
1985-08-05	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	0	8
1987-06-21	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	0	8
1985-04-24	PHI @ WSH Gameday	4	2	2	2	2	0	8

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

2× 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.