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Tetelo Vargas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 142 lb

BornApril 11, 1906 · Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, D.R.

Seasons5 (1927–1943)

Cuban Stars East 1927; Cuban Stars East 1929; New York Cubans 1941–1943

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

9.4

142

16.7

123

15.9

34.8

30.4

21.7

RBI

19.6

27.5

70.3

41.3

31.9

.472

100

OBP

.542

99.3

SLG

.593

99.3

OPS

1.136

99.3

wRC+

186.6

98.6

OPS+

203.2

99.3

wOBA

.535

99.3

sWAR

2.2

62.3

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 83 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.5

80.5

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
1927	16	64	53	10	13	0	0	0	3	8	0	1	0	.245	.365	.245	.610	75.9	62.4	.314	0.0
1929	27	126	111	30	44	9	3	2	23	12	2	3	0	.396	.460	.586	1.045	146.0	153.7	.473	1.2
1941	45	192	173	36	62	13	6	1	35	16	2	1	0	.358	.413	.520	.933	151.5	160.2	.427	2.0
1942	25	98	87	14	24	3	1	0	9	6	1	1	1	.276	.323	.333	.656	86.8	87.2	.314	0.1
1943	31	142	123	35	58	7	4	0	18	19	0	4	0	.472	.542	.593	1.136	186.6	203.2	.535	2.2

Career totals

144

622

547

125

201

RBI

.3675

OBP

.4332

SLG

.4936

OPS

.9268

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	RBI	BB	TB
1941-09-16	NYC @ BEG Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	2	0	8
1943-08-15	NYC @ HOM Gameday	5	4	4	0	1	1	1	6
1943-05-29	NYC @ PHS Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	2	0	5
1941-08-30	HOM @ NYC Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	0	5
1943-05-23	BEG @ NYC Gameday	5	2	2	1	1	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-05-03	NBY @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-05-08	NYC @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-05-10	NYC @ PHS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-05-11	NYC @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-05-13	NYC @ NE 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.

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.