Yoenis Cespedes
Oakland Athletics 2012–2013; Boston Red Sox 2014; Oakland Athletics 2014; Detroit Tigers 2015; New York Mets 2015–2018; New York Mets 2020
Percentile snapshot
2016 season — qualified batters
of 146 qualified 2016 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 129 | 540 | 487 | 70 | 142 | 25 | 5 | 23 | 82 | 43 | 102 | 16 | 4 | .292 | .356 | .505 | .861 | 137.9 | 138.2 | .369 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 135 | 574 | 529 | 74 | 127 | 21 | 4 | 26 | 80 | 37 | 137 | 7 | 7 | .240 | .294 | .442 | .737 | 100.6 | 103.7 | .318 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 152 | 645 | 600 | 89 | 156 | 36 | 6 | 22 | 100 | 35 | 128 | 7 | 2 | .260 | .301 | .450 | .751 | 108.5 | 110.8 | .327 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 159 | 676 | 633 | 101 | 184 | 42 | 6 | 35 | 105 | 33 | 141 | 7 | 5 | .291 | .328 | .542 | .870 | 135.9 | 136.7 | .368 | 4.7 |
| 2016 | 132 | 543 | 479 | 72 | 134 | 25 | 1 | 31 | 86 | 51 | 108 | 3 | 1 | .280 | .354 | .530 | .884 | 133.8 | 136.1 | .374 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 81 | 321 | 291 | 46 | 85 | 17 | 2 | 17 | 42 | 26 | 61 | 0 | 1 | .292 | .352 | .540 | .892 | 132.8 | 135.5 | .374 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 38 | 157 | 141 | 20 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 29 | 13 | 50 | 3 | 0 | .262 | .325 | .496 | .821 | 121.7 | 125.8 | .349 | 0.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | 34 | 31 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .161 | .235 | .387 | .622 | 67.3 | 68.0 | .269 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-21 | NYM @ COL Gameday | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 15 |
| 2017-04-11 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| 2016-08-20 | NYM @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 2014-05-31 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 2013-06-04 | ATH @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.