MLB / Players

Erik Hanson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 210 lb

BornMay 18, 1965 · Kinnelon, NJ, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1988

Final gameJune 8, 1998

Seasons11 (1988–1998)

Seattle Mariners 1988–1993; Cincinnati Reds 1994; Boston Red Sox 1995; Toronto Blue Jays 1996–1998

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified pitchers

65.4

44.4

65.4

SHO

46.9

243

12.3

129

2.5

102

6.2

156

61.7

34.6

214.7

ERA

5.41

3.7

WHIP

1.607

6.2

K/9

6.54

59.3

FIP

4.82

29.6

FIP-

97.0

48.1

ERA+

91.9

sWAR

1.2

17.3

of 82 qualified 1996 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.3

54.8

sWAR

18.6

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	RBI	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1988	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1989	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1990	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.3
1991	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1992	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1993	33	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.2
1994	22	41	39	3	6	1	3	17	.154	.154	.179	.333	-25.6	-12.6	.149	1.2
1995	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1996	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
1997	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1998	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1988	6	6	2	3	0	0	35	15	12	36	4	41.7	3.24	1.128	7.78	3.28	79.4	127.5	0.8
1989	17	17	9	5	1	0	103	40	32	75	7	113.3	3.18	1.191	5.96	3.31	82.7	126.0	2.2
1990	33	33	18	9	5	1	205	85	68	211	15	236.0	3.24	1.157	8.05	2.74	69.2	121.9	4.3
1991	27	27	8	8	2	1	182	74	56	143	16	174.7	3.81	1.363	7.37	3.46	84.1	107.9	2.3
1992	31	30	8	17	6	1	209	100	57	112	14	186.7	4.82	1.425	5.40	3.59	90.6	82.3	0.0
1993	31	30	11	12	7	0	215	83	60	163	17	215.0	3.47	1.279	6.82	3.42	78.4	125.6	4.2
1994	22	21	5	5	0	0	137	56	23	101	10	122.7	4.11	1.304	7.41	3.11	74.8	101.4	1.2
1995	29	29	15	5	1	1	187	88	59	139	17	186.7	4.24	1.318	6.70	3.80	78.5	114.0	3.0
1996	35	35	13	17	4	1	243	129	102	156	26	214.7	5.41	1.607	6.54	4.82	97.0	91.9	1.2
1997	3	2	0	0	0	0	15	13	6	18	3	15.0	7.80	1.400	10.80	4.55	99.7	58.4	-0.4
1998	11	8	0	3	0	0	73	34	29	21	10	49.0	6.24	2.082	3.86	6.85	147.9	74.2	-0.3

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

247

RBI

.1538

OBP

.1538

SLG

.1795

OPS

.3333

Pitching

G (P)

245

238

SHO

1,555

SO (P)

1,175

408th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

504

ERA

4.149

WHIP

1.3553

K/9

6.80

236th-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	RBI	TB
1994-04-28	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	2	2	1	1	3
1994-07-02	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	1
1994-05-03	CIN @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1
1994-06-27	CIN @ HOU Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1
1994-07-23	CIN @ CHC Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1993-05-19	SEA @ TEX Gameday	8.2	6	4	3	1	13	1
1990-08-01	SEA @ ATH Gameday	10.0	2	0	0	0	11	0
1988-09-16	MIL @ SEA Gameday	8.0	8	5	5	1	11	0
1991-04-20	ATH @ SEA Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	10	1
1992-07-22	DET @ SEA Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	1	10	1

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

1× 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.