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Ruben Amaro
Ruben (Mora) Amaro Sr.

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11" , Weight: 170 lb.

Born: January 6, 1936 in Veracruz, 30, Mexico
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1954. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 29, 1958
Final Game: September 28, 1969
Relatives: Father of Ruben Amaro
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Ruben Amaro
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Minors
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1958	22	STL	NL	40	82	76	8	17	2	1	0	0	0	1	5	8	.224	.272	.276	.548	44	21	3	0	1	0	1	6/4

1960	24	PHI	NL	92	292	264	25	61	9	1	0	16	0	1	21	32	.231	.292	.273	.564	56	72	5	2	4	1	2	6
1961	25	PHI	NL	135	447	381	34	98	14	9	1	32	1	0	53	59	.257	.351	.349	.700	89	133	9	2	11	0	2	*6/34
1962	26	PHI	NL	79	265	226	24	55	10	0	0	19	5	2	30	28	.243	.330	.288	.617	70	65	6	1	4	4	4	6/3
1963	27	PHI	NL	115	245	217	25	47	9	2	2	19	0	1	19	31	.217	.276	.304	.580	68	66	4	0	6	3	6	65/3
1964	28	PHI	NL	129	323	299	31	79	11	0	4	34	1	6	16	37	.264	.307	.341	.648	84	102	5	3	4	1	2	63/457	MVP-21,GG
1965	29	PHI	NL	118	218	184	26	39	7	0	0	15	1	1	27	22	.212	.312	.250	.562	62	46	6	1	3	3	3	36/4
1966	30	NYY	AL	14	23	23	0	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	2	.217	.217	.217	.435	29	5	2	0	0	0	0	6
1967	31	NYY	AL	130	470	417	31	93	12	0	1	17	3	2	43	49	.223	.297	.259	.556	70	108	13	1	9	0	4	*6/53
1968	32	NYY	AL	47	50	41	3	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	6	.122	.280	.146	.426	35	6	0	0	0	0	0	63
1969	33	CAL	AL	41	36	27	4	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	6	.222	.323	.222	.545	59	6	0	0	5	0	0	3/465
11 Seasons				940	2451	2155	211	505	75	13	8	156	11	14	227	280	.234	.309	.292	.601	71	630	53	10	47	12	24
162 Game Avg.				162	422	371	36	87	13	2	1	27	2	2	39	48	.234	.309	.292	.601	71	109	9	2	8	2	4

PHI (6 yrs)				668	1790	1571	165	379	60	12	7	135	8	11	166	209	.241	.315	.308	.623	74	484	35	9	32	12	19
NYY (3 yrs)				191	543	481	34	103	13	0	1	20	3	2	52	57	.214	.292	.247	.540	65	119	15	1	9	0	4
STL (1 yr)				40	82	76	8	17	2	1	0	0	0	1	5	8	.224	.272	.276	.548	44	21	3	0	1	0	1
CAL (1 yr)				41	36	27	4	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	6	.222	.323	.222	.545	59	6	0	0	5	0	0

NL (7 yrs)				708	1872	1647	173	396	62	13	7	135	8	12	171	217	.240	.313	.307	.620	73	505	38	9	33	12	20
AL (4 yrs)				232	579	508	38	109	13	0	1	21	3	2	56	63	.215	.294	.246	.540	65	125	15	1	14	0	4

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1958	22	STL	NL	82	64	5	2.1	109	.250	.224	.274	.272	.343	.276	.428	.548	.771	44	.189	-6.5	-0.6	.397	.105	.053

1960	24	PHI	NL	292	214	21	2.6	99	.262	.231	.263	.292	.329	.273	.404	.564	.733	56	.284	-15.8	-1.6	.450	.117	.042
1961	25	PHI	NL	447	303	49	4.3	104	.302	.257	.268	.351	.334	.349	.417	.700	.751	89	.465	-5.0	-0.5	.647	.234	.092	1.0
1962	26	PHI	NL	265	187	23	3.3	100	.272	.243	.266	.330	.333	.288	.404	.617	.737	70	.355	-7.6	-0.8	.553	.190	.044	.0
1963	27	PHI	NL	245	184	18	2.6	88	.241	.217	.253	.276	.315	.304	.378	.580	.693	68	.326	-8.6	-0.9	.480	.171	.088	.0
1964	28	PHI	NL	323	236	30	3.4	93	.290	.264	.262	.307	.320	.341	.389	.648	.709	84	.418	-6.5	-0.7	.502	.114	.077	1.6
1965	29	PHI	NL	218	158	15	2.6	92	.236	.212	.256	.312	.319	.250	.387	.562	.706	62	.293	-7.7	-0.8	.487	.185	.038	.0
1966	30	NYY	AL	23	20	1	1.4	86	.238	.217	.243	.217	.308	.217	.374	.435	.682	29	.125	-2.2	-0.2	.250	.000	.000
1967	31	NYY	AL	470	348	32	2.5	80	.251	.223	.238	.297	.306	.259	.356	.556	.662	70	.322	-14.4	-1.6	.451	.141	.036	1.5
1968	32	NYY	AL	50	36	2	1.5	77	.143	.122	.234	.280	.302	.146	.346	.426	.648	35	.172	-2.8	-0.3	.417	.244	.024
1969	33	CAL	AL	36	26	3	3.1	90	.286	.222	.247	.323	.323	.222	.373	.545	.696	59	.364	-1.3	-0.1	.476	.148	.000
11 Seasons				2451	1776	199	3.0	94	.265	.234	.257	.309	.322	.292	.390	.601	.712	71	.352	-78.3	-8.1	.503	.162	.058	9.3
162 Game Avg.				422	306	34	3.0	94	.265	.234	.257	.309	.322	.292	.390	.601	.712	71	.352	-78.3	-8.1	.503	.162	.058	2

PHI (6 yrs)				1790	1282	156	3.3	97	.272	.241	.262	.315	.326	.308	.399	.623	.725	74	.374	-51.2	-5.3	.530	.171	.067	7.5
NYY (3 yrs)				543	404	35	2.3	80	.241	.214	.237	.292	.306	.247	.356	.540	.662	65	.299	-19.3	-2.1	.438	.143	.033	1.5
STL (1 yr)				82	64	5	2.1	109	.250	.224	.274	.272	.343	.276	.428	.548	.771	44	.188	-6.5	-0.6	.397	.105	.053
CAL (1 yr)				36	26	3	3.1	90	.286	.222	.247	.323	.323	.222	.373	.545	.696	59	.364	-1.3	-0.1	.476	.148	.000

NL (7 yrs)				1872	1346	161	3.2	98	.271	.240	.263	.313	.327	.307	.400	.620	.727	73	.365	-57.7	-5.9	.523	.168	.066	7.5
AL (4 yrs)				579	430	38	2.4	81	.243	.215	.238	.294	.307	.246	.357	.540	.664	65	.304	-20.5	-2.2	.440	.144	.031	1.5

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1958	22	STL	NL	82	0.0%	9.8%	6.1%	3.7%	18%	1.60	9.5			0.87	83%

1960	24	PHI	NL	292	0.0%	11.0%	7.2%	3.4%	16%	1.52	8.3		16.5	1.43	80%
1961	25	PHI	NL	447	0.2%	13.2%	11.9%	5.4%	25%	1.11	6.5	381.0	11.9	1.16	72%
1962	26	PHI	NL	265	0.0%	10.6%	11.3%	3.8%	18%	0.93	8.1		11.9	0.91	76%
1963	27	PHI	NL	245	0.8%	12.7%	7.8%	5.3%	28%	1.63	7.0	108.5	11.4	0.77	76%
1964	28	PHI	NL	323	1.2%	11.5%	5.0%	4.6%	19%	2.31	8.1	74.8	8.8	1.03	80%
1965	29	PHI	NL	218	0.0%	10.1%	12.4%	3.2%	18%	0.81	8.4		12.3	1.32	76%
1966	30	NYY	AL	23	0.0%	8.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		11.5		7.7	0.64	91%
1967	31	NYY	AL	470	0.2%	10.4%	9.2%	2.8%	14%	1.14	8.5	417.0	24.5	0.88	78%
1968	32	NYY	AL	50	0.0%	12.0%	18.0%	2.0%	20%	0.67	6.8			1.07	70%
1969	33	CAL	AL	36	0.0%	16.7%	11.1%	0.0%	0%	1.50	4.5		27.0	1.86	58%
11 Seasons				2451	0.3%	11.4%	9.3%	3.9%	19%	1.23	7.7	269.4	13.8	1.03	77%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1958	22	STL	NL	0	0	36%	27	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	50%	2	2	0	1	1	0	3	0	3

1960	24	PHI	NL	1	0	30%	119	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	53%	13	11	1	5	0	5	12	2	10
1961	25	PHI	NL	6	0	22%	189	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	7	8	52%	17	11	6	3	1	2	9	2	7
1962	26	PHI	NL	4	0	28%	118	5	2	71%	5	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	4	71%	10	5	5	0	0	0	11	1	10
1963	27	PHI	NL	3	0	36%	94	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	70%	7	5	2	2	1	1	11	0	11
1964	28	PHI	NL	5	0	29%	131	1	6	14%	1	4	0	0	0	2	2	2	5	4	52%	15	10	5	2	0	2	8	2	6
1965	29	PHI	NL	5	0	39%	104	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	50%	16	9	7	3	0	2	9	4	5
1966	30	NYY	AL	0	0	0%	6	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967	31	NYY	AL	6	0	22%	185	3	2	60%	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	10	40%	16	12	4	6	4	2	13	5	8
1968	32	NYY	AL	1	0	21%	30	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	50%	5	3	2	1	1	0	2	0	2
1969	33	CAL	AL	0	0	40%	18	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	40%	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	0
11 Seasons				31	0	28%	1021	11	14	44%	10	12	1	0	0	2	5	2	38	53	53%	106	71	34	23	8	14	79	17	62
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1958	22	STL	NL	82	29%	17			1	0	0	0	0.64	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	10	3	30%	7	1	14%	39	0	0%	3	0	0%	3	1	33%	0

1960	24	PHI	NL	292	39%	61			0	0	0	0		0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	57%	46	5	11%	19	8	42%	139	16	12%	9	4	44%	15	3	20%	0
1961	25	PHI	NL	447	39%	98			1	0	0	0	0.24	1	0	10	1	0	0	1	0	14	11	79%	76	9	12%	32	13	41%	264	32	12%	15	9	60%	17	4	24%	0
1962	26	PHI	NL	265	36%	55			0	0	0	0	4.23	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	67%	49	6	12%	27	13	48%	172	21	12%	19	9	47%	11	4	36%	0
1963	27	PHI	NL	245	36%	47			7	0	0	2	3.33	2	0	7	1	1	1	1	0	8	6	75%	49	4	8%	24	12	50%	152	17	11%	12	7	58%	10	1	10%	0
1964	28	PHI	NL	323	39%	79			10	2	0	1	1.53	4	0	6	2	2	3	1	0	9	4	44%	66	5	8%	26	7	27%	215	30	14%	12	8	67%	21	9	43%	0
1965	29	PHI	NL	217	42%	39			7	0	0	0	1.36	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	75%	37	6	16%	21	10	48%	128	17	13%	14	7	50%	14	8	57%	1
1966	30	NYY	AL	23	43%	5			0	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		3	2	67%	2	0	0%	10	3	30%	1	0	0%	0	0		0
1967	31	NYY	AL	470	38%	93			3	0	0	0	1.75	1	0	4	0	1	0	1	0	10	9	90%	96	13	14%	46	20	43%	263	19	7%	15	5	33%	19	3	16%	0
1968	32	NYY	AL	50	42%	5			1	0	0	0	6.80	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		7	0	0%	2	0	0%	25	0	0%	0	0		1	0	0%	0
1969	33	CAL	AL	36	33%	6			5	1	0	0	2.64	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	100%	11	0	0%	8	5	63%	24	1	4%	1	1	100%	1	1	100%	0
11 Seasons				2450	38%	505			35	3	0	3	2.12	8	0	50	4	4	4	4	0	64	47	73%	450	53	12%	214	89	42%	1431	156	11%	101	50	50%	112	34	30%	1
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1958	22	40	82	76	8	17	2	1	0	0	0	1	5	8	.224	.272	.276	.548	44	21	3	0	1	0	1
1959	23	40	82	76	8	17	2	1	0	0	0	1	5	8	.224	.272	.276	.548	44	21	3	0	1	0	1
1960	24	132	374	340	33	78	11	2	0	16	0	2	26	40	.229	.287	.274	.561	53	93	8	2	5	1	3
1961	25	267	821	721	67	176	25	11	1	48	1	2	79	99	.244	.322	.313	.635	72	226	17	4	16	1	5
1962	26	346	1086	947	91	231	35	11	1	67	6	4	109	127	.244	.324	.307	.631	72	291	23	5	20	5	9
1963	27	461	1331	1164	116	278	44	13	3	86	6	5	128	158	.239	.315	.307	.622	71	357	27	5	26	8	15
1964	28	590	1654	1463	147	357	55	13	7	120	7	11	144	195	.244	.313	.314	.627	74	459	32	8	30	9	17
1965	29	708	1872	1647	173	396	62	13	7	135	8	12	171	217	.240	.313	.307	.620	73	505	38	9	33	12	20
1966	30	722	1895	1670	173	401	62	13	7	138	8	12	171	219	.240	.312	.305	.617	72	510	40	9	33	12	20
1967	31	852	2365	2087	204	494	74	13	8	155	11	14	214	268	.237	.309	.296	.605	72	618	53	10	42	12	24
1968	32	899	2415	2128	207	499	75	13	8	155	11	14	223	274	.234	.308	.293	.602	71	624	53	10	42	12	24
1969	33	940	2451	2155	211	505	75	13	8	156	11	14	227	280	.234	.309	.292	.601	71	630	53	10	47	12	24

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1958	22	42	84	79	8	17	2	1	0	0	0	5	8	.215	.262	.266	.528	5	40

1960	24	96	304	278	27	66	10	1	0	17	0	23	33	.237	.299	.281	.580	23	92
1961	25	141	461	402	35	106	15	10	1	33	1	57	62	.264	.358	.358	.716	51	135
1962	26	79	267	230	25	59	11	0	0	20	5	32	28	.257	.345	.304	.649	24	79
1963	27	115	246	222	30	52	10	2	2	23	0	21	31	.234	.297	.324	.621	22	115
1964	28	129	323	302	35	82	11	0	4	38	1	17	37	.272	.316	.348	.663	33	129
1965	29	117	221	187	28	43	8	0	0	16	1	30	22	.230	.335	.273	.608	17	118
1966	30	14	23	23	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	1	14
1967	31	130	483	432	39	108	14	0	1	22	3	50	49	.250	.329	.289	.619	41	130
1968	32	47	56	43	4	7	1	0	0	0	0	13	6	.163	.357	.186	.543	3	47
1969	33	41	34	29	4	8	0	0	0	1	0	5	6	.276	.382	.276	.658	3	41
11 Seasons		951	2502	2227	235	548	82	14	8	175	11	253	284	.246	.324	.306	.630	223	940
162 Game Avg.		162	426	379	40	93	14	2	1	30	2	43	48	.246	.324	.306	.630	38	940

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Gold Gloves
1964-NL-SS

MVP (yr-lg-rk-shr)
1964-NL-21-2%
0.02 Career Shares (1327th)

Triples s c a p y
1961 NL--9--8th

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1961 NL--11--5th
1967 AL--9--8th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink Batting - 1 (2250), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Monitor Batting - 2 (2087), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Batters

Compare Stats to Similars

Most Similar by Ages

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John Donaldson (988) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Bryan Little (988) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jeff Huson (984) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Abraham Nunez (984) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave Anderson (980) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Rocky Bridges (987) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave Anderson (968) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ted Kubiak (976) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ted Kubiak (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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Name and misspellings: Ruben (Sr.) (Mora) reuben Ruben rubian rubin rueben Amaro

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Gray Ink	Batting - 1 (2250), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 2 (2087), Likely HOFer ≈ 100