Willie Montanez

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornApril 1, 1948 · Catano, P.R.

MLB debutApril 12, 1966

Final gameOctober 2, 1982

Seasons14 (1966–1982)

California Angels 1966; Philadelphia Phillies 1970–1975; San Francisco Giants 1975; Atlanta Braves 1976; San Francisco Giants 1976; Atlanta Braves 1977; New York Mets 1978–1979; Texas Rangers 1979; Montreal Expos 1980; San Diego Padres 1980; Montreal Expos 1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1981; Philadelphia Phillies 1982; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

142

33.1

548

19.4

500

27.4

1.6

136

19.4

42.7

24.2

RBI

47.6

29.8

67.7

17.7

51.6

.272

33.1

OBP

.325

26.6

SLG

.348

10.5

OPS

.673

15.3

wRC+

89.5

19.4

OPS+

92.5

24.2

wOBA

.308

15.3

sWAR

-0.1

1.6

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.0

37.7

OPS+

101.0

43.8

sWAR

9.1

85.9

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
1966	8	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1970	18	26	25	3	6	0	0	0	3	1	4	0	0	.240	.269	.240	.509	23.2	38.2	.222	-0.3
1971	158	683	599	78	153	27	6	30	99	67	105	4	7	.255	.327	.471	.798	120.6	125.1	.354	4.0
1972	147	596	531	60	131	39	3	13	64	58	108	1	3	.247	.320	.405	.725	99.0	102.5	.327	2.0
1973	146	609	552	69	145	16	5	11	65	46	80	2	6	.263	.324	.370	.694	89.3	89.9	.320	0.1
1974	143	571	527	55	160	33	1	7	79	32	57	3	6	.304	.343	.410	.753	105.5	106.9	.348	1.0
1975	156	667	602	61	182	34	2	10	101	49	62	6	3	.302	.353	.415	.769	109.1	109.6	.355	1.5
1976	163	691	650	74	206	29	2	11	84	36	47	2	5	.317	.352	.418	.771	112.3	113.6	.354	1.8
1977	136	582	544	70	156	31	1	20	68	35	60	1	1	.287	.328	.458	.786	97.4	98.0	.350	0.6
1978	159	679	609	66	156	32	0	17	96	60	92	9	4	.256	.320	.392	.712	95.1	101.6	.319	0.4
1979	147	596	554	55	142	25	0	13	71	33	62	0	2	.256	.297	.372	.669	79.0	83.3	.300	-0.9
1980	142	548	500	40	136	12	4	6	64	39	55	3	5	.272	.325	.348	.673	89.5	92.5	.308	-0.1
1981	55	105	100	8	21	0	1	1	6	5	11	0	0	.210	.248	.260	.508	38.5	43.1	.243	-0.7
1982	54	52	48	4	10	1	0	0	2	4	6	0	0	.208	.269	.229	.498	18.8	37.1	.214	-0.4

Career totals

1,632

6,407

5,843

645

1,604

279

139

RBI

802

465

751

.2745

OBP

.3272

SLG

.4022

OPS

.7294

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
1971-09-13	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	3	5	1	2	4	1	12
1980-07-30	CHC @ SD Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	3	1	10
1971-05-16	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	3	1	10
1973-06-17	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	2	1	4	0	9
1978-05-24	NYM @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	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

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.