Tony Taylor

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 19, 1935 · Central Alava, Matanzas, Cuba

MLB debutApril 15, 1958

Final gameSeptember 29, 1976

Seasons19 (1958–1976)

Chicago Cubs 1958–1960; Philadelphia Phillies 1960–1970; Detroit Tigers 1971; Philadelphia Phillies 1971; Detroit Tigers 1972–1973; Philadelphia Phillies 1974–1976

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified batters

138

23.3

608

50.8

557

38.3

146

51.7

56.7

65.8

7.5

RBI

1.7

23.3

61.7

82.5

10.8

.262

OBP

.317

18.3

SLG

.339

12.5

OPS

.657

12.5

wRC+

87.7

15.8

OPS+

85.9

13.3

wOBA

.310

14.2

sWAR

1.3

of 121 qualified 1969 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.6

21.5

OPS+

87.8

19.5

sWAR

19.4

93.3

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
1958	140	555	497	63	117	15	3	6	27	40	93	21	6	.235	.299	.314	.613	64.1	63.9	.284	-0.4
1959	150	688	624	96	175	30	8	8	38	45	86	23	9	.280	.331	.393	.724	94.1	92.4	.328	2.1
1960	146	640	581	80	165	25	7	5	44	41	98	26	11	.284	.331	.377	.708	94.5	93.4	.322	2.0
1961	106	437	400	47	100	17	3	2	26	29	59	11	5	.250	.304	.323	.626	66.8	67.6	.285	-0.2
1962	152	702	625	87	162	21	5	7	43	68	82	20	9	.259	.336	.342	.679	88.2	85.4	.316	1.6
1963	157	700	640	102	180	20	10	5	49	42	99	23	9	.281	.330	.367	.698	105.6	102.9	.321	3.2
1964	154	636	570	62	143	13	6	4	46	46	74	13	7	.251	.320	.316	.636	82.5	82.0	.294	1.1
1965	106	363	323	41	74	14	3	3	27	22	58	5	4	.229	.302	.319	.621	80.6	77.1	.291	0.5
1966	125	473	434	47	105	14	8	5	40	31	56	8	4	.242	.294	.346	.640	79.6	78.1	.293	0.6
1967	132	520	462	55	110	16	6	2	34	42	74	10	9	.238	.308	.312	.620	77.5	77.9	.290	0.0
1968	145	598	547	59	137	20	2	3	38	39	60	22	5	.250	.302	.311	.613	82.8	84.3	.289	1.1
1969	138	608	557	68	146	24	5	3	30	42	62	19	10	.262	.317	.339	.657	87.7	85.9	.310	1.3
1970	124	495	439	74	132	26	9	9	55	50	67	9	11	.301	.374	.462	.837	123.8	123.8	.376	3.2
1971	91	314	288	36	77	12	3	4	24	21	21	7	3	.267	.318	.372	.690	93.5	94.7	.318	0.9
1972	78	247	228	33	69	12	4	1	20	14	34	5	1	.303	.346	.404	.749	126.4	121.5	.351	1.8
1973	84	302	275	35	63	9	3	5	24	17	29	9	5	.229	.276	.338	.614	65.2	68.5	.285	-0.1
1974	62	73	64	5	21	4	0	2	13	6	6	0	0	.328	.389	.484	.873	144.7	139.7	.406	0.6
1975	79	124	103	13	25	5	1	1	17	17	18	3	3	.243	.350	.340	.689	92.0	90.0	.329	0.3
1976	26	26	23	2	6	1	0	0	3	1	7	0	0	.261	.320	.304	.624	80.3	77.3	.303	0.0

Career totals

2,195

150th-most career G

8,501

211th-most career PA

7,680

188th-most career AB

1,005

350th-most career R

2,007

294th-most career H

298

245th-most career 3B

RBI

598

613

1,083

325th-most career SO

234

274th-most career SB

.2613

OBP

.3208

SLG

.3518

OPS

.6726

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1958-07-01	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1959-08-13	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	3	3	8
1970-05-28	PHI @ WSH Gameday	6	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1960-05-01	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	3	0	7
1966-05-14	HOU @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1958-09-14	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959-07-09	CHC @ PIT 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

1× 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.