Rocky Colavito

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 10, 1933 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1955

Final gameSeptember 28, 1968

Seasons14 (1955–1968)

Cleveland Indians 1955–1959; Detroit Tigers 1960–1963; Kansas City Athletics 1964; Cleveland Indians 1965–1966; Chicago White Sox 1967; Cleveland Indians 1967; Los Angeles Dodgers 1968; New York Yankees 1968

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified batters

151

53.2

614

51.1

533

38.3

127

19.1

3.2

85.1

RBI

58.5

89.4

39.4

20.2

.238

7.4

OBP

.336

57.4

SLG

.432

58.5

OPS

.767

57.4

wRC+

123.3

69.1

OPS+

119.8

63.8

wOBA

.346

64.9

sWAR

3.0

57.4

of 95 qualified 1966 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

134.2

93.5

OPS+

132.6

92.2

sWAR

47.3

98.6

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
1955	5	9	9	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.444	.444	.667	1.111	203.4	196.3	.502	0.1
1956	101	380	322	55	89	11	4	21	65	49	46	0	1	.276	.372	.531	.903	136.1	136.0	.406	2.5
1957	134	544	461	66	116	26	0	25	84	71	80	1	6	.252	.348	.471	.819	126.0	123.8	.371	2.9
1958	143	578	489	80	148	26	3	41	113	84	89	0	2	.303	.405	.620	1.024	181.9	181.1	.445	7.1
1959	154	664	588	90	151	24	0	42	111	71	86	3	3	.257	.337	.512	.849	130.7	134.2	.373	3.9
1960	145	616	555	67	138	18	1	35	87	53	80	3	6	.249	.317	.474	.791	107.3	109.6	.351	1.9
1961	163	708	583	129	169	30	2	45	140	113	75	1	2	.290	.402	.580	.982	158.9	158.4	.429	6.7
1962	161	707	601	90	164	30	2	37	112	96	68	2	0	.273	.371	.514	.885	134.0	133.6	.389	4.5
1963	160	692	597	91	162	29	2	22	91	84	78	0	0	.271	.358	.437	.795	120.4	119.1	.354	3.1
1964	160	681	588	89	161	31	2	34	102	83	56	3	1	.274	.366	.507	.873	140.1	135.5	.386	4.8
1965	162	695	592	92	170	25	2	26	108	93	63	1	1	.287	.383	.468	.851	143.2	140.6	.382	5.1
1966	151	614	533	68	127	13	0	30	72	76	81	2	1	.238	.336	.432	.767	123.3	119.8	.346	3.0
1967	123	436	381	30	88	13	1	8	50	49	41	3	3	.231	.317	.333	.651	98.1	95.1	.307	0.7
1968	79	235	204	21	43	5	2	8	24	29	35	0	1	.211	.311	.373	.683	116.3	111.5	.323	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1958	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	3.0	0.00	1.000	3.00	4.78	129.2	—	7.1
1968	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	2.7	0.00	1.125	3.38	3.72	128.8	—	1.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,841

375th-most career G

7,559

356th-most career PA

6,503

394th-most career AB

971

395th-most career R

1,730

460th-most career H

283

374

81st-most career HR

RBI

1,159

187th-most career RBI

951

148th-most career BB

880

.2660

OBP

.3593

499th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4885

172nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8478

202nd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.0588

K/9

3.18

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	BB	TB
1959-06-10	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	5	4	0	4	6	1	16
1961-08-27	DET @ TEX Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	6	0	12
1962-07-05	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	5	0	12
1961-05-13	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	4	4	0	2	4	0	10
1962-08-11	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	6	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	BB	SO
1958-08-13	DET @ CLE Gameday	3.0	0	3	1
1968-08-25	DET @ NYY Gameday	2.2	1	2	1
1957-09-25	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1957-09-26	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1958-09-23	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0

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

6× 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.