Al Leiter

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornOctober 23, 1965 · Toms River, NJ, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1987

Final gameOctober 2, 2005

Seasons19 (1987–2005)

New York Yankees 1987–1989; Toronto Blue Jays 1989–1995; Florida Marlins 1996–1997; New York Mets 1998–2004; Florida Marlins 2005; New York Yankees 2005

Percentile snapshot

2004 season — qualified pitchers

9.1

14.8

12.5

SHO

138

100

98.9

5.7

117

30.7

86.4

173.7

11.4

ERA

3.21

89.8

WHIP

1.353

47.7

K/9

6.06

52.3

FIP

4.67

30.7

FIP-

109.9

23.9

ERA+

132.3

87.5

sWAR

3.6

70.5

of 89 qualified 2004 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.0

76.3

sWAR

33.7

97.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1987	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1988	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1989	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1990	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1991	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1992	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1993	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1994	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1995	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.9
1996	33	81	70	3	7	0	0	1	4	45	.100	.149	.100	.249	-35.0	-31.4	.126	4.7
1997	27	53	48	2	5	0	0	1	3	25	.104	.157	.104	.261	-35.3	-28.4	.133	0.9
1998	28	69	57	1	6	3	0	4	7	32	.105	.203	.158	.361	-2.4	-2.0	.183	5.6
1999	32	70	57	1	6	2	0	5	2	29	.105	.136	.140	.276	-37.3	-28.3	.129	2.3
2000	31	71	58	1	3	0	0	0	4	33	.052	.113	.052	.165	-60.2	-55.2	.091	4.4
2001	29	64	62	2	4	0	1	3	2	28	.065	.094	.097	.191	-60.2	-49.2	.090	3.3
2002	33	64	53	3	8	1	0	2	8	28	.151	.262	.170	.432	23.4	19.2	.223	3.4
2003	30	60	53	2	1	0	0	0	2	28	.019	.055	.019	.073	-96.6	-79.4	.043	1.7
2004	30	59	54	0	5	1	0	0	3	30	.093	.140	.111	.251	-44.2	-33.0	.124	3.6
2005	33	22	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.1	-100.0	.000	-2.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1987	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	24	16	15	28	2	22.7	6.35	1.721	11.12	3.54	80.1	69.5	-0.2
1988	14	14	4	4	0	0	0	49	25	33	60	7	57.3	3.92	1.430	9.42	4.30	108.9	100.7	0.6
1989	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	32	21	23	26	2	33.3	5.67	1.650	7.02	4.32	111.7	68.2	-0.4
1990	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	0	6.3	0.00	.474	7.11	2.18	55.4	—	0.4
1991	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	5	1	0	1.7	27.00	4.800	5.40	10.71	256.1	15.5	-0.4
1992	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1.0	9.00	3.000	0.00	8.79	217.0	45.0	0.0
1993	34	12	9	6	2	1	1	93	48	56	66	8	105.0	4.11	1.419	5.66	4.45	102.6	105.4	1.3
1994	20	20	6	7	0	1	0	125	63	65	100	6	111.7	5.08	1.701	8.06	3.90	81.0	95.0	0.8
1995	28	28	11	11	0	2	1	162	74	108	153	15	183.0	3.64	1.475	7.52	4.40	93.6	129.2	3.9
1996	33	33	16	12	0	2	1	153	70	119	200	14	215.3	2.93	1.263	8.36	3.89	95.1	139.9	4.7
1997	27	27	11	9	0	0	0	133	73	91	132	13	151.3	4.34	1.480	7.85	4.49	110.4	93.6	0.9
1998	28	28	17	6	0	4	2	151	53	71	174	8	193.0	2.47	1.150	8.11	3.08	74.0	168.2	5.6
1999	32	32	13	12	0	1	1	209	100	93	162	19	213.0	4.23	1.418	6.85	4.15	94.7	103.7	2.3
2000	31	31	16	8	0	2	1	176	74	76	200	19	208.0	3.20	1.212	8.65	3.58	80.9	138.1	4.4
2001	29	29	11	11	0	0	0	178	69	46	142	18	187.3	3.31	1.196	6.82	3.54	85.2	125.3	3.3
2002	33	33	13	13	0	2	2	194	79	69	172	23	204.3	3.48	1.287	7.58	3.79	95.0	114.6	3.4
2003	30	30	15	9	0	1	1	176	80	94	139	15	180.7	3.99	1.494	6.92	4.23	100.9	105.1	1.7
2004	30	30	10	8	0	0	0	138	62	97	117	16	173.7	3.21	1.353	6.06	4.67	109.9	132.3	3.6
2005	33	26	7	12	0	0	0	154	97	98	97	13	142.3	6.13	1.770	6.13	5.16	124.4	67.9	-2.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

419

613

530

RBI

290

.0849

OBP

.1416

SLG

.1019

OPS

.2435

Pitching

G (P)

419

382

163rd-most career GS

162

226th-most career W

132

263rd-most career L

SHO

2,391

283rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,974

98th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,163

61st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.802

WHIP

1.3864

K/9

7.43

151st-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
2002-06-19	MIN @ NYM Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3
2001-08-31	MIA @ NYM Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	3
1999-09-29	ATL @ NYM Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2
1996-09-15	MIA @ WSH Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1997-05-27	MIA @ LAD Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1999-08-01	NYM @ CHC Gameday	7.0	7	2	2	2	15	0
2000-08-13	SF @ NYM Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	1	12	0
2000-08-23	NYM @ SD Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	2	12	1
2000-07-01	ATL @ NYM Gameday	7.0	6	1	1	3	12	0
1988-04-14	NYY @ TOR Gameday	8.0	4	3	3	2	11	2

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

2× 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.