Sandy Valdespino
Minnesota Twins 1965–1967; Atlanta Braves 1968; Houston Astros 1969; Seattle Pilots 1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970; Kansas City Royals 1971
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 108 | 273 | 245 | 38 | 64 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 20 | 28 | 7 | 4 | .261 | .319 | .322 | .641 | 78.8 | 80.7 | .295 | -0.1 |
| 1966 | 52 | 114 | 108 | 11 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 24 | 2 | 2 | .176 | .211 | .259 | .470 | 23.3 | 31.8 | .215 | -0.8 |
| 1967 | 99 | 103 | 97 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 3 | 1 | .165 | .204 | .216 | .420 | 6.2 | 20.9 | .194 | -1.2 |
| 1968 | 36 | 97 | 86 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .320 | .279 | .599 | 70.0 | 81.3 | .272 | -0.1 |
| 1969 | 61 | 177 | 157 | 20 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 2 | 3 | .236 | .309 | .268 | .576 | 67.8 | 64.4 | .282 | -0.3 |
| 1970 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1971 | 18 | 65 | 63 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .317 | .338 | .508 | .846 | 142.5 | 139.7 | .384 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-09-10 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1965-06-23 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1966-04-13 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971-09-03 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1968-04-23 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-05-04 | ATL @ HOU Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-05-05 | ATL @ HOU Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-05-31 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-06-02 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-06-02 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 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.