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Hipolito Pichardo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 160 lb

BornAugust 22, 1969 · Esperanza, Valverde, D.R.

MLB debutApril 21, 1992

Final gameMay 7, 2002

Seasons10 (1992–2002)

Kansas City Royals 1992–1998; Boston Red Sox 2000–2001; Houston Astros 2002

Percentile snapshot

1993 season — qualified pitchers

1.2

2.3

76.7

26.7

SHO

183

76.7

81.4

83.7

5.8

96.5

165.0

ERA

4.04

WHIP

1.430

23.3

K/9

3.82

FIP

4.01

48.8

FIP-

89.2

70.9

ERA+

111.5

sWAR

2.5

53.5

of 87 qualified 1993 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.8

85.5

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1992	31	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1993	30	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
1994	45	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1995	44	2	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.2	-100.0	.000	0.8
1996	57	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1997	47	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1998	27	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.3	-100.0	.000	0.7
2000	38	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.4	-100.0	.000	1.7
2001	30	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
2002	1	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1992	31	24	9	6	0	1	1	148	63	49	59	9	143.7	3.95	1.371	3.70	3.87	96.3	101.8	1.5
1993	30	25	7	8	0	2	0	183	74	53	70	10	165.0	4.04	1.430	3.82	4.01	89.2	111.5	2.5
1994	45	0	5	3	3	0	0	82	37	24	36	4	67.7	4.92	1.567	4.79	4.28	87.2	99.7	0.7
1995	44	0	8	4	1	0	0	66	31	30	43	4	64.0	4.36	1.500	6.05	4.20	89.2	108.1	0.8
1996	57	0	3	5	3	0	0	74	41	26	43	5	68.0	5.43	1.471	5.69	4.18	83.8	91.8	0.4
1997	47	0	3	5	11	0	0	51	23	24	34	7	49.0	4.22	1.531	6.24	5.15	110.4	110.3	0.7
1998	27	18	7	8	1	0	0	126	64	43	55	11	112.3	5.13	1.504	4.41	4.77	100.1	92.9	0.7
2000	38	1	6	3	1	0	0	63	25	26	37	1	65.0	3.46	1.369	5.12	3.62	72.1	145.1	1.7
2001	30	0	2	1	0	0	0	42	19	10	17	3	34.7	4.93	1.500	4.41	4.54	101.0	91.1	0.2
2002	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	0	0.3	81.00	15.000	0.00	20.88	489.4	5.3	-0.3

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

350

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

350

SHO

770

SO (P)

394

BB allowed

287

ERA

4.443

WHIP

1.4617

K/9

4.61

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
1995-07-29	DET @ KC Gameday	2
1997-06-30	KC @ CHC Gameday	0
1997-07-02	KC @ CHC Gameday	0
1997-09-01	KC @ CIN Gameday	0
1998-06-07	KC @ HOU Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1998-04-04	KC @ MIN Gameday	7.0	4	2	0	3	6	0
1993-04-18	KC @ MIN Gameday	7.0	6	4	4	3	5	0
1993-06-21	LAA @ KC Gameday	6.2	3	4	4	7	5	1
1993-04-29	KC @ TOR Gameday	6.0	9	4	4	2	5	0
1998-04-17	KC @ ATH Gameday	6.0	4	0	0	3	5	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.