Hector Mercado
Cincinnati Reds 2000–2001; Philadelphia Phillies 2002–2003
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 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 | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 2001 | 56 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.8 |
| 2002 | 31 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 27.3 | 35.2 | .227 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 14.0 | 4.50 | 1.429 | 8.36 | 4.77 | 101.6 | 104.4 | 0.2 |
| 2001 | 56 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 24 | 30 | 59 | 6 | 53.0 | 4.08 | 1.604 | 10.02 | 3.95 | 87.4 | 111.0 | 0.8 |
| 2002 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 20 | 25 | 40 | 2 | 39.0 | 4.62 | 1.462 | 9.23 | 3.65 | 92.0 | 85.9 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 18.7 | 5.79 | 1.607 | 7.23 | 6.94 | 158.9 | 75.5 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-09-21 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000-04-04 | MIL @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000-04-07 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000-04-10 | CIN @ COL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000-04-14 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-09-21 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 4.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 2002-09-13 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 2000-04-07 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 2003-04-04 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 5.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002-09-09 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 4.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.