MLB / Players

Tony Armas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 182 lb

BornJuly 2, 1953 · Puerto Piritu, Anzoátegui, Venezuela

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1976

Final gameOctober 1, 1989

Seasons14 (1976–1989)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1976; Oakland Athletics 1977–1982; Boston Red Sox 1983–1986; California Angels 1987–1989

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

157

82.4

679

84.9

639

95.8

107

95.8

171

71.4

74.8

100

RBI

123

100

16.8

156

0.8

3.4

68.1

.268

34.5

OBP

.300

8.4

SLG

.531

95.8

OPS

.831

76.5

wRC+

116.6

60.5

OPS+

121.4

63.9

wOBA

.356

63.9

sWAR

3.5

65.5

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.9

37.6

OPS+

102.4

46.5

sWAR

13.8

90.3

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
1976	4	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	90.4	91.2	.314	0.0
1977	118	392	363	26	87	8	2	13	53	20	99	1	2	.240	.274	.380	.654	72.6	77.9	.288	0.0
1978	91	258	239	17	51	6	1	2	13	10	62	1	2	.213	.250	.272	.522	43.4	50.3	.240	-1.0
1979	80	297	278	29	69	9	3	11	34	16	67	1	0	.248	.290	.421	.710	90.6	94.1	.313	0.4
1980	158	666	628	87	175	18	8	35	109	29	128	5	3	.279	.310	.500	.810	122.2	125.8	.355	3.3
1981	109	462	440	51	115	24	3	22	76	19	115	5	1	.261	.294	.480	.774	119.9	125.2	.343	2.1
1982	138	578	536	58	125	19	2	28	89	33	128	2	2	.233	.275	.433	.708	88.9	94.7	.307	0.5
1983	145	613	574	77	125	23	2	36	107	29	131	0	1	.218	.254	.453	.707	80.7	85.5	.308	0.6
1984	157	679	639	107	171	29	5	43	123	32	156	1	3	.268	.300	.531	.831	116.6	121.4	.356	3.5
1985	103	410	385	50	102	17	5	23	64	18	90	0	0	.265	.298	.514	.812	109.9	114.7	.346	1.7
1986	121	453	425	40	112	21	4	11	58	24	77	0	3	.264	.305	.409	.714	91.5	92.8	.317	1.1
1987	28	84	81	8	16	3	1	3	9	1	11	1	0	.198	.205	.370	.575	44.2	50.6	.244	-0.4
1988	120	393	368	42	100	20	2	13	49	22	87	1	3	.272	.311	.443	.754	111.5	111.8	.338	1.5
1989	60	211	202	22	52	7	1	11	30	7	48	0	0	.257	.280	.465	.745	102.6	108.9	.327	0.5

Career totals

1,432

5,502

5,164

614

1,302

204

251

255th-most career HR

RBI

815

260

1,201

236th-most career SO

.2521

OBP

.2872

SLG

.4526

455th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7398

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
1980-09-20	ATH @ KC Gameday	4	3	4	2	2	5	1	12
1984-06-03	BOS @ MIL Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	3	0	11
1983-06-04	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	4	0	10
1988-08-14	LAA @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	3	0	10
1981-04-17	SEA @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	5	0	10

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

1× Silver Slugger2× 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.