Hector Santiago

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 215 lb

BornDecember 16, 1987 · Newark, NJ, USA

MLB debutJuly 6, 2011

Final gameJuly 27, 2021

Seasons10 (2011–2021)

Chicago White Sox 2011–2013; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2014–2016; Minnesota Twins 2016–2017; Chicago White Sox 2018–2019; New York Mets 2019; Seattle Mariners 2021

Percentile snapshot

2016 season — qualified pitchers

69.9

57.5

45.2

SHO

169

65.8

13.7

6.8

144

23.3

4.1

182.0

42.5

ERA

4.70

WHIP

1.363

23.3

K/9

7.12

21.9

FIP

5.27

2.7

FIP-

127.5

2.7

ERA+

87.8

13.7

sWAR

0.7

13.7

of 74 qualified 2016 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.0

85.7

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	H	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2011	2	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
2012	42	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
2013	34	6	4	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.4	-100.0	.000	2.5
2014	30	5	4	1	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	37.8	45.3	.226	1.2
2015	33	5	5	1	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	3.6	13.5	.177	2.4
2016	33	3	3	1	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	83.5	85.8	.293	0.7
2017	15	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2018	49	4	4	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.3	-100.0	.000	0.7
2019	19	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
2021	13	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2011	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	5.3	0.00	.375	3.38	2.87	67.4	—	0.3
2012	42	4	4	1	4	54	26	40	79	10	70.3	3.33	1.336	10.11	4.65	110.9	126.1	1.4
2013	34	23	4	9	0	137	59	72	137	17	149.0	3.56	1.403	8.28	4.47	108.0	116.2	2.5
2014	30	24	6	9	0	120	53	53	108	15	127.3	3.75	1.359	7.63	4.32	116.8	98.6	1.2
2015	33	32	9	9	0	156	72	71	162	29	180.7	3.59	1.256	8.07	4.74	123.2	107.4	2.4
2016	33	33	13	10	0	169	95	79	144	33	182.0	4.70	1.363	7.12	5.27	127.5	87.8	0.7
2017	15	14	4	8	0	70	44	31	51	15	70.3	5.63	1.436	6.53	6.00	135.1	78.9	-0.2
2018	49	7	6	3	2	101	50	60	103	16	102.0	4.41	1.578	9.09	5.13	121.9	95.3	0.7
2019	19	2	1	1	0	42	25	22	40	8	33.7	6.68	1.901	10.69	5.91	132.5	66.6	-0.5
2021	13	1	1	1	0	27	10	11	30	2	26.3	3.42	1.443	10.25	3.17	76.6	121.2	0.5

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

270

RBI

.1500

OBP

.1500

SLG

.1500

OPS

.3000

Pitching

G (P)

270

140

SHO

947

SO (P)

856

BB allowed

440

ERA

4.125

WHIP

1.3907

K/9

8.14

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	H	TB
2014-06-15	LAA @ ATL Gameday	3	1	1
2015-06-17	LAA @ AZ Gameday	2	1	1
2016-05-04	LAA @ MIL Gameday	2	1	1
2012-05-19	CWS @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0
2012-06-16	CWS @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2012-10-01	CWS @ CLE Gameday	7.0	1	0	0	1	10	0
2016-04-18	LAA @ CWS Gameday	7.0	2	0	0	3	10	0
2015-07-20	BOS @ LAA Gameday	5.0	8	1	1	1	10	0
2013-07-13	CWS @ PHI Gameday	7.1	3	1	1	1	9	1
2013-07-03	BAL @ CWS Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	2	9	1

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

1× 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.