Orlando Cepeda

1958–1974 · 17 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1937

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1958ROY	San Francisco Giants	NL	148	644	603	88	188	38	4	25	96	29	84	15	.312	.342	.512	.854	3.5
1959	San Francisco Giants	NL	151	647	605	92	192	35	4	27	105	33	100	23	.317	.355	.522	.878	3.9
1960	San Francisco Giants	NL	151	615	569	81	169	36	3	24	96	34	91	15	.297	.343	.497	.840	3.4
1961	San Francisco Giants	NL	152	636	585	105	182	28	4	46	142	39	91	12	.311	.362	.609	.970	5.4
1962	San Francisco Giants	NL	162	676	625	105	191	26	1	35	114	37	97	10	.306	.347	.518	.865	3.6
1963	San Francisco Giants	NL	156	629	579	100	183	33	4	34	97	37	70	8	.316	.366	.563	.929	6.2
1964	San Francisco Giants	NL	142	587	529	75	161	27	2	31	97	43	83	9	.304	.361	.539	.900	4.9
1965	San Francisco Giants	NL	33	40	34	1	6	1	0	1	5	3	9	0	.176	.225	.294	.519	-0.3
1966	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	142	563	501	70	151	26	0	20	73	38	79	9	.301	.361	.473	.834	3.0
1967MVP	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	151	644	563	91	183	37	0	25	111	62	75	11	.325	.399	.524	.923	7.2
1968	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	157	656	600	71	149	26	2	16	73	43	96	8	.248	.306	.378	.685	1.5
1969	Atlanta Braves	NL	154	636	573	74	147	28	2	22	88	55	76	12	.257	.325	.428	.753	2.1
1970	Atlanta Braves	NL	148	627	567	87	173	33	0	34	111	47	75	6	.305	.365	.543	.908	4.9
1971	Atlanta Braves	NL	71	276	250	31	69	10	1	14	44	22	29	3	.276	.330	.492	.822	1.4
1972	Atlanta Braves	NL	31	94	87	6	25	3	0	4	9	7	17	0	.287	.340	.460	.800	0.6
1973	Boston Red Sox	AL	142	608	550	51	159	25	0	20	86	50	81	0	.289	.350	.444	.793	3.5
1974	Kansas City Royals	AL	33	117	107	3	23	5	0	1	18	9	16	1	.215	.282	.290	.572	-0.1
Career	17 seasons		2124	8695	7927	1131	2351	417	27	379	1365	588	1169	142	.297	.353	.499	.852	54.7

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League), AL (American League).

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