Luis Aparicio played 18 seasons (1956–1973) for CWS, BAL and BOS. Career regular-season line: 2,677 hits, 83 home runs and a .262 average. Standard career, peaking in 1964. Led the league in a statistical category 5 times. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984. Honors: 10× All-Star Selections and 9× Gold Gloves.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 97.6th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
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Rate Luis Aparicio — All-Time
18 seasons · peak 10.9 in 1964
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
38.9 career wins over 18 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1964 · +4.2 wins
Latest season · 1973 · +1.5 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Luis Aparicio led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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5
league-leading seasons · 12 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Standard
A varied career arc that doesn't conform to a single pattern. Peak 1964, 18 rated seasons.
Season boards
12
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
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Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 18 seasons (1956–1973) — a true nomad. The crest trail: