MLB / Players

Fernando Gonzalez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb
BornJune 19, 1950 · Arecibo, P.R.
MLB debutSeptember 15, 1972
Final gameSeptember 23, 1979
Seasons6 (1972–1979)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1972–1973; Kansas City Royals 1974; New York Yankees 1974; Pittsburgh Pirates 1977–1978; San Diego Padres 1978–1979

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.7
10.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19723220000000200.000.000.000.000-130.4-100.0.0000.0
1973375149511011511100.224.255.327.58160.363.0.269-0.1
1974601511421229611971110.204.242.282.52347.151.9.247-0.3
1977801971811750100427132133.276.320.398.71882.391.0.3120.2
19781103723412984112229193544.246.282.308.59066.470.6.273-0.1
19791143413232270133934183400.217.258.359.61759.171.6.267-0.4

Career totals

G
404
PA
1,114
AB
1,038
R
85
H
244
2B
40
3B
7
HR
17
RBI
104
BB
58
SO
114
SB
8
BA
.2351
OBP
.2742
SLG
.3362
OPS
.6104

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1978-07-14SD @ CHC Gameday422002508
1979-06-13PIT @ SD Gameday414001207
1977-08-28PIT @ SD Gameday412001315
1979-04-19SF @ SD Gameday522001305
1979-07-13SD @ WSH Gameday412001205

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.