MLB / Players

Francisco Cordova

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 190 lb

BornApril 26, 1972 · Cerro Azul, Veracruz, México

MLB debutApril 2, 1996

Final gameAugust 8, 2000

Seasons5 (1996–2000)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1996–2000

Percentile snapshot

1998 season — qualified pitchers

53.7

48.4

10.5

61.1

SHO

75.8

204

49.5

74.7

157

58.9

220.3

74.7

ERA

3.31

86.3

WHIP

1.239

73.7

K/9

6.41

47.4

FIP

3.92

70.5

FIP-

91.5

64.2

ERA+

129.6

82.1

sWAR

4.4

83.2

of 96 qualified 1998 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.6

87.5

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
1996	59	18	16	1	2	0	0	2	0	7	.125	.125	.125	.250	-48.8	-34.4	.114	1.2
1997	29	68	56	2	5	0	0	0	4	26	.089	.150	.089	.239	-45.4	-35.7	.125	2.9
1998	33	79	75	3	9	1	1	1	2	29	.120	.143	.160	.303	-34.5	-20.7	.139	4.4
1999	27	56	49	2	8	0	0	2	2	15	.163	.196	.163	.359	-14.9	-7.3	.171	1.8
2000	18	37	35	0	4	0	0	3	2	15	.114	.162	.114	.276	-35.0	-27.9	.138	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1996	59	6	4	7	12	0	0	103	45	20	95	11	99.0	4.09	1.242	8.64	3.29	75.8	105.9	1.2
1997	29	29	11	8	0	2	2	175	72	49	121	14	178.7	3.63	1.254	6.10	3.71	86.7	118.0	2.9
1998	33	33	13	14	0	3	2	204	81	69	157	22	220.3	3.31	1.239	6.41	3.92	91.5	129.6	4.4
1999	27	27	8	10	0	2	0	166	79	59	98	16	160.7	4.43	1.400	5.49	4.32	94.7	103.2	1.8
2000	18	17	6	8	0	0	0	107	55	38	66	12	95.0	5.21	1.526	6.25	4.57	99.1	88.5	0.2

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

166

258

231

RBI

.1212

OBP

.1577

SLG

.1342

OPS

.2919

Pitching

G (P)

166

112

SHO

754

SO (P)

537

BB allowed

235

ERA

3.965

WHIP

1.3136

K/9

6.41

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
1998-08-22	STL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	4
1997-07-12	HOU @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1999-08-01	MIA @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1999-08-23	AZ @ PIT Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2
1998-08-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	1	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1997-07-12	HOU @ PIT Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	2	10	0
1998-09-03	AZ @ PIT Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	10	0
1999-08-01	MIA @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	10	0
1999-08-07	STL @ PIT Gameday	7.2	7	1	1	2	10	0
1997-07-27	PIT @ SF Gameday	8.0	11	6	6	0	9	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.