MLB / Players

Tony Oliva

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornJuly 20, 1938 · Pinar del Río, Pinar del Río, Cuba

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1962

Final gameSeptember 29, 1976

Seasons15 (1962–1976)

Minnesota Twins 1962–1976

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified batters

131

11.8

515

7.1

455

9.4

4.7

123

16.5

1.6

58.3

RBI

40.9

29.9

84.3

86.6

.270

44.9

OBP

.344

47.2

SLG

.378

OPS

.722

40.2

wRC+

97.6

32.3

OPS+

103.0

40.2

wOBA

.327

29.1

sWAR

0.1

7.9

of 128 qualified 1975 batters (min 492 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.5

90.8

OPS+

132.0

91.7

sWAR

37.2

97.6

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
1962	9	12	9	3	4	1	0	0	3	3	2	0	0	.444	.583	.556	1.139	222.3	205.0	.520	0.2
1963	7	7	7	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.429	.429	.429	.857	147.0	140.4	.389	0.1
1964	161	718	672	109	217	43	9	32	94	34	68	12	6	.323	.359	.557	.916	152.8	150.8	.398	6.2
1965	149	647	576	107	185	40	5	16	98	55	64	19	9	.321	.378	.491	.870	142.5	142.4	.384	4.7
1966	159	677	622	99	191	32	7	25	87	42	72	13	7	.307	.353	.502	.854	138.7	138.0	.374	4.7
1967	146	615	557	76	161	34	6	17	83	44	61	11	3	.289	.347	.463	.810	130.4	131.0	.362	3.4
1968	128	528	470	54	136	24	5	18	68	45	61	10	9	.289	.357	.477	.833	146.5	147.0	.371	3.8
1969	153	692	637	97	197	39	4	24	101	45	66	10	13	.309	.355	.496	.851	133.5	135.8	.380	4.3
1970	157	674	628	96	204	36	7	23	107	38	67	5	4	.325	.364	.514	.878	138.2	139.5	.388	4.6
1971	126	518	487	73	164	30	3	22	81	25	44	4	1	.337	.369	.546	.915	156.9	155.5	.408	4.6
1972	10	30	28	1	9	1	0	0	1	2	5	0	0	.321	.367	.357	.724	119.6	112.3	.346	0.1
1973	146	624	571	63	166	20	0	16	92	45	44	2	1	.291	.345	.410	.754	105.0	109.3	.340	0.8
1974	127	494	459	43	131	16	2	13	57	27	31	0	1	.285	.325	.414	.739	103.2	109.3	.331	0.5
1975	131	515	455	46	123	10	0	13	58	41	45	0	1	.270	.344	.378	.722	97.6	103.0	.327	0.1
1976	67	128	123	3	26	3	0	1	16	2	13	0	0	.211	.234	.260	.495	33.3	43.8	.230	-1.0

Career totals

1,676

6,879

488th-most career PA

6,301

440th-most career AB

870

1,917

343rd-most career H

329

378th-most career 2B

220

326th-most career HR

RBI

947

367th-most career RBI

448

645

.3042

168th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3531

SLG

.4764

249th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8295

287th-highest career OPS

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	TB
1969-06-29	MIN @ KC Gameday	5	2	5	1	2	5	12
1973-07-03	MIN @ KC Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	3	12
1964-05-02	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	3	11
1964-05-07	LAA @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	6	10
1974-06-28	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	3	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

Hall of Fame, 2022 (Veterans - Golden Age Era)

1× Rookie of the Year1× Gold Glove8× 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.