Esteban Loaiza

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 230 lb

BornDecember 31, 1971 · Tijuana, Baja California, México

MLB debutApril 29, 1995

Final gameJune 11, 2008

Seasons14 (1995–2008)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1995–1998; Texas Rangers 1998–2000; Toronto Blue Jays 2000–2002; Chicago White Sox 2003–2004; New York Yankees 2004; Washington Nationals 2005; Oakland Athletics 2006; Los Angeles Dodgers 2007; Oakland Athletics 2007; Chicago White Sox 2008; Los Angeles Dodgers 2008

Percentile snapshot

2005 season — qualified pitchers

80.4

SHO

227

41.3

173

81.5

78.3

217.0

73.9

ERA

3.77

60.9

WHIP

1.300

K/9

7.18

77.2

FIP

3.31

FIP-

81.1

84.8

ERA+

107.9

51.1

sWAR

2.8

48.9

of 93 qualified 2005 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.9

25.6

sWAR

17.4

92.4

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1995	33	61	52	4	10	1	1	2	1	11	0	.192	.204	.250	.454	8.0	18.0	.203	0.1
1996	11	22	17	1	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	.118	.118	.118	.235	-53.1	-38.2	.107	0.1
1997	33	69	60	4	10	1	0	5	1	17	0	.167	.180	.183	.364	-17.5	-4.9	.167	2.3
1998	35	33	29	2	7	0	0	3	1	5	0	.241	.267	.241	.508	29.8	34.7	.236	0.6
1999	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2000	34	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.5	-100.0	.000	3.0
2001	36	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.2	-100.0	.000	0.9
2002	25	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-23.8	-11.7	.149	-0.4
2003	34	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0.7	8.2	.179	5.9
2004	31	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.1	-100.0	.000	-0.2
2005	34	80	74	3	12	2	0	4	0	23	1	.162	.162	.189	.351	-21.2	-6.1	.156	2.8
2006	26	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.9	-100.0	.000	0.8
2007	7	9	7	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-41.7	-25.2	.129	-0.2
2008	10	9	6	1	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	77.4	79.2	.301	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1995	32	31	8	9	0	1	0	205	99	55	85	21	172.7	5.16	1.506	4.43	4.71	110.2	82.8	0.1
1996	10	10	2	3	0	1	1	65	29	19	32	11	52.7	4.96	1.595	5.47	5.79	133.6	87.4	0.1
1997	33	32	11	11	0	1	0	214	90	56	122	17	196.3	4.13	1.375	5.59	3.99	93.3	103.7	2.3
1998	35	28	9	11	0	1	0	199	98	52	108	28	171.0	5.16	1.468	5.68	5.00	110.7	87.7	0.6
1999	30	15	9	5	0	0	0	128	61	40	77	10	120.3	4.56	1.396	5.76	4.00	79.3	110.6	1.8
2000	34	31	10	13	1	1	1	228	101	57	137	29	199.3	4.56	1.430	6.19	4.79	94.9	110.8	3.0
2001	36	30	11	11	0	1	1	239	106	40	110	27	190.0	5.02	1.468	5.21	4.56	100.4	90.5	0.9
2002	25	25	9	10	0	3	1	192	96	38	87	18	151.3	5.71	1.520	5.17	4.29	93.6	80.3	-0.4
2003	34	34	21	9	0	1	0	196	73	56	207	17	226.3	2.90	1.113	8.23	3.12	70.9	151.4	5.9
2004	31	27	10	7	0	2	1	217	116	71	117	32	183.0	5.70	1.574	5.75	5.37	114.5	82.2	-0.2
2005	34	34	12	10	0	0	0	227	91	55	173	18	217.0	3.77	1.300	7.18	3.31	81.1	107.9	2.8
2006	26	26	11	9	0	2	1	179	84	40	97	17	154.7	4.89	1.416	5.64	4.24	95.2	91.1	0.8
2007	7	7	2	4	0	0	0	36	24	20	20	10	37.3	5.79	1.500	4.82	7.33	167.1	75.6	-0.2
2008	10	3	1	2	0	0	0	27	16	5	10	4	27.0	5.33	1.185	3.33	4.96	117.8	78.8	0.0

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

379

311

271

RBI

.1697

OBP

.1782

SLG

.1919

OPS

.3701

Pitching

G (P)

377

333

246th-most career GS

126

402nd-most career W

114

401st-most career L

SHO

2,099

401st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,382

289th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

604

ERA

4.648

WHIP

1.4083

K/9

5.93

397th-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
1995-09-23	PIT @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	0	4
1995-05-18	PIT @ LAD Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	2
1998-05-22	PIT @ MIA Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
2005-06-24	TOR @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2	2
1995-09-13	SD @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-09-08	DET @ TOR Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	11	0
2005-04-27	PHI @ WSH Gameday	8.0	4	2	2	1	11	1
2005-09-04	PHI @ WSH Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	4	11	0
2003-04-17	KC @ CWS Gameday	6.0	4	1	1	2	11	0
2000-04-16	TEX @ CLE Gameday	7.1	2	0	0	2	10	0

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.