Tony Peña

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornJune 4, 1957 · Monte Cristi, Monte Cristi, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1980

Final gameSeptember 28, 1997

Seasons18 (1980–1997)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1980–1986; St. Louis Cardinals 1987–1989; Boston Red Sox 1990–1993; Cleveland Indians 1994–1996; Chicago White Sox 1997; Houston Astros 1997

Percentile snapshot

1991 season — qualified batters

141

23.8

512

3.3

464

9.8

3.3

107

3.3

25.4

14.8

RBI

8.2

18.9

49.2

67.2

.231

4.9

OBP

.291

4.1

SLG

.321

OPS

.612

wRC+

66.2

OPS+

66.9

wOBA

.284

0.8

sWAR

0.9

13.9

of 123 qualified 1991 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.8

12.4

OPS+

84.6

15.6

sWAR

25.9

95.6

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
1980	8	21	21	1	9	1	1	0	1	0	4	0	1	.429	.429	.571	1.000	186.8	175.7	.456	0.4
1981	66	223	210	16	63	9	1	2	17	8	23	1	2	.300	.326	.381	.707	95.2	97.3	.326	1.2
1982	138	523	497	53	147	28	4	11	63	17	57	2	5	.296	.323	.435	.758	107.5	107.6	.344	3.5
1983	151	580	542	51	163	22	3	15	70	31	73	6	7	.301	.338	.435	.773	110.6	111.7	.350	4.0
1984	147	592	546	77	156	27	2	15	78	36	79	12	8	.286	.333	.425	.758	112.8	112.7	.347	4.3
1985	147	587	546	53	136	27	2	10	59	29	67	12	8	.249	.284	.361	.645	76.7	80.4	.293	1.6
1986	144	565	510	56	147	26	2	10	52	53	69	9	10	.288	.356	.406	.762	110.3	107.8	.350	3.8
1987	116	425	384	40	82	13	4	5	44	36	54	6	1	.214	.281	.307	.589	49.8	55.8	.264	-0.4
1988	149	546	505	55	133	23	1	10	51	33	60	6	2	.263	.308	.372	.680	90.1	95.0	.306	2.5
1989	141	464	424	36	110	17	2	4	37	35	33	5	3	.259	.318	.337	.655	76.2	85.9	.291	1.4
1990	143	540	491	62	129	19	1	7	56	43	71	8	6	.263	.322	.348	.670	84.5	84.8	.310	2.1
1991	141	512	464	45	107	23	2	5	48	37	53	8	3	.231	.291	.321	.612	66.2	66.9	.284	0.9
1992	133	450	410	39	99	21	1	1	38	24	61	3	2	.241	.284	.305	.589	59.1	61.7	.276	0.5
1993	126	347	304	20	55	11	0	4	19	25	46	1	3	.181	.246	.257	.502	29.7	32.4	.238	-0.7
1994	40	126	112	18	33	8	1	2	10	9	11	0	1	.295	.341	.438	.779	103.0	103.1	.345	0.8
1995	91	279	263	25	69	15	0	5	28	14	44	1	0	.262	.302	.376	.679	74.6	76.2	.304	0.8
1996	67	195	174	14	34	4	0	1	27	15	25	0	1	.195	.255	.236	.491	27.2	26.7	.231	-0.6
1997	40	98	86	6	15	4	0	0	10	10	16	0	0	.174	.255	.221	.476	29.7	28.9	.229	-0.2

Career totals

1,988

266th-most career G

7,073

441st-most career PA

6,489

398th-most career AB

667

1,687

499th-most career H

298

107

RBI

708

455

846

.2600

OBP

.3091

SLG

.3637

OPS

.6728

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1988-04-21	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	2	2	0	9
1984-08-31	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	2	6	0	8
1985-09-18	PIT @ WSH Gameday	6	2	2	2	4	0	8
1983-09-23	PIT @ WSH Gameday	4	2	2	2	3	1	8
1982-06-25	PIT @ WSH Gameday	4	2	2	2	2	0	8

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

4× Gold Glove5× 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.