Tony Perez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornMay 14, 1942 · Camagüey, Camagüey, Cuba

MLB debutJuly 26, 1964

Final gameOctober 5, 1986

Seasons23 (1964–1986)

Cincinnati Reds 1964–1976; Montreal Expos 1977–1979; Boston Red Sox 1980–1982; Philadelphia Phillies 1983; Cincinnati Reds 1984–1986

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

4.4

336

2.2

306

5.1

12.4

5.8

13.1

53.3

62.8

RBI

45.3

29.9

13.9

94.2

.252

25.5

OBP

.310

17.5

SLG

.395

48.2

OPS

.705

wRC+

98.6

29.9

OPS+

98.1

28.5

wOBA

.325

33.6

sWAR

0.3

8.8

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 334 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.6

OPS+

122.6

sWAR

49.4

98.8

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
1964	12	28	25	1	2	1	0	0	1	3	9	0	0	.080	.179	.120	.299	-16.5	-14.8	.159	-0.4
1965	104	307	281	40	73	14	4	12	47	21	67	0	2	.260	.315	.466	.781	109.4	111.5	.343	0.5
1966	99	278	257	25	68	10	4	4	39	14	44	1	0	.265	.304	.381	.686	80.7	83.2	.306	-0.4
1967	156	644	600	78	174	28	7	26	102	33	102	0	3	.290	.328	.490	.818	120.3	120.5	.363	3.9
1968	160	690	625	93	176	25	7	18	92	51	92	3	2	.282	.338	.430	.769	125.5	124.1	.351	4.8
1969	160	704	629	103	185	31	2	37	122	63	131	4	2	.294	.357	.526	.883	141.1	140.3	.395	6.2
1970	158	681	587	107	186	28	6	40	129	83	134	8	3	.317	.401	.589	.990	161.0	163.0	.433	7.6
1971	158	664	609	72	164	22	3	25	91	51	120	4	1	.269	.325	.438	.764	118.3	118.0	.348	3.6
1972	136	576	515	64	146	33	7	21	90	55	121	4	2	.283	.349	.497	.846	141.3	145.7	.374	3.5
1973	151	647	564	73	177	33	3	27	101	74	117	3	1	.314	.393	.527	.919	160.3	160.1	.412	5.6
1974	158	667	596	81	158	28	2	28	101	61	112	1	3	.265	.331	.460	.791	120.9	123.1	.362	2.5
1975	137	574	511	74	144	28	3	20	109	54	101	1	2	.282	.350	.466	.816	125.2	125.3	.374	2.5
1976	139	586	527	77	137	32	6	19	91	50	88	10	5	.260	.328	.452	.779	116.7	119.0	.355	1.9
1977	154	633	559	71	158	32	6	19	91	63	111	4	3	.283	.352	.463	.816	115.1	118.8	.358	2.0
1978	148	590	544	63	158	38	3	14	78	38	104	2	0	.290	.336	.449	.785	118.3	120.1	.354	2.0
1979	132	537	489	58	132	29	4	13	73	38	82	2	1	.270	.322	.425	.748	103.5	104.6	.337	0.9
1980	151	635	585	73	161	31	3	25	105	41	93	1	0	.275	.320	.467	.786	104.3	109.4	.343	1.2
1981	84	336	306	35	77	11	3	9	39	27	66	0	0	.252	.310	.395	.705	98.6	98.1	.325	0.3
1982	69	215	196	18	51	14	2	6	31	19	48	0	1	.260	.326	.444	.769	103.2	105.1	.339	0.3
1983	91	285	253	18	61	11	2	6	43	28	57	1	0	.241	.316	.372	.687	93.4	91.7	.320	0.1
1984	71	149	137	9	33	6	1	2	15	11	21	0	0	.241	.295	.343	.638	71.8	75.9	.293	-0.3
1985	72	207	183	25	60	8	0	6	33	22	22	0	2	.328	.396	.470	.866	143.4	137.2	.397	1.4
1986	77	228	200	14	51	12	1	2	29	25	25	0	0	.255	.333	.355	.688	88.9	87.6	.320	0.0

Career totals

2,777

29th-most career G

10,861

42nd-most career PA

9,778

38th-most career AB

1,272

144th-most career R

2,732

60th-most career H

505

61st-most career 2B

292nd-most career 3B

379

75th-most career HR

RBI

1,652

32nd-most career RBI

925

168th-most career BB

1,867

20th-most career SO

.2794

OBP

.3410

SLG

.4635

355th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8045

461st-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	BB	TB
1967-08-09	HOU @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	4	0	10
1970-04-12	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	4	1	10
1973-09-21	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	3	0	9
1973-07-28	CIN @ SD Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	1	0	9
1970-08-08	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	6	0	9

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, 2000 (BBWAA)

1× All-Star Game MVP7× 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.