Rafael Santana
St. Louis Cardinals 1983; New York Mets 1984–1987; New York Yankees 1988; Cleveland Indians 1990
Percentile snapshot
1988 season — qualified batters
of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 499 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 30 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .214 | .353 | .214 | .567 | 76.8 | 61.6 | .297 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 51 | 162 | 152 | 14 | 42 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 3 | .276 | .317 | .382 | .698 | 99.4 | 97.8 | .325 | 0.8 |
| 1985 | 154 | 564 | 529 | 41 | 136 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 29 | 54 | 1 | 0 | .257 | .295 | .302 | .597 | 63.6 | 70.7 | .271 | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 139 | 436 | 394 | 38 | 86 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 36 | 43 | 0 | 0 | .218 | .285 | .254 | .539 | 45.9 | 53.2 | .248 | -0.7 |
| 1987 | 139 | 470 | 439 | 41 | 112 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 44 | 29 | 57 | 1 | 1 | .255 | .302 | .346 | .648 | 71.4 | 76.6 | .287 | 0.6 |
| 1988 | 148 | 521 | 480 | 50 | 115 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 38 | 33 | 61 | 1 | 2 | .240 | .289 | .294 | .583 | 65.0 | 64.7 | .273 | 0.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .231 | .462 | .692 | 83.3 | 89.7 | .303 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-06-13 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1988-04-18 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1984-09-26 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1985-04-17 | NYM @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1987-07-02 | NYM @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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.