MLB / Players

German Gonzalez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb
BornMarch 7, 1962 · Rio Caribe, Sucre, Venezuela
MLB debutAugust 5, 1988
Final gameSeptember 25, 1989
Seasons2 (1988–1989)

Minnesota Twins 1988–1989

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
0.5
58

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
1988160000000000000.4
1989220000000000000.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
198816000100208819421.33.381.3138.024.74117.1120.00.4
19892203200032151125229.04.661.4837.763.5787.188.20.1

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

G
38
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
38
GS
0
W
3
L
2
SV
1
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
50
SO (P)
44
BB allowed
19
ERA
4.113
WHIP
1.4106
K/9
7.87

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
1988-09-15CWS @ MIN Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1989-09-25MIN @ CWS Gameday2.0533040
1988-08-31MIN @ TEX Gameday2.0300030
1989-04-05NYY @ MIN Gameday2.0100130
1988-09-20MIN @ ATH Gameday1.2566232
1989-04-11MIN @ DET Gameday1.0000030

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.