Ismael Valdez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 21, 1973 · Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, México

MLB debutJune 15, 1994

Final gameOctober 1, 2005

Seasons12 (1994–2005)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1994–1999; Chicago Cubs 2000; Los Angeles Dodgers 2000; Anaheim Angels 2001; Seattle Mariners 2002; Texas Rangers 2002–2003; Florida Marlins 2004; San Diego Padres 2004; Florida Marlins 2005

Percentile snapshot

2004 season — qualified pitchers

69.3

22.7

61.4

54.5

35.2

SHO

54.5

202

51.1

38.6

81.8

1.1

170.0

4.5

ERA

5.19

13.6

WHIP

1.476

18.2

K/9

3.55

2.3

FIP

5.59

2.3

FIP-

136.3

ERA+

79.1

1.1

sWAR

-0.1

2.3

of 89 qualified 2004 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.1

sWAR

20.3

93.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1994	21	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.5	-100.0	.000	0.5
1995	33	70	62	2	6	0	0	1	1	26	1	.097	.111	.097	.208	-51.1	-42.1	.099	3.4
1996	33	84	70	6	10	1	0	2	1	25	0	.143	.155	.157	.312	-19.4	-13.9	.144	3.6
1997	30	67	57	0	5	1	0	1	3	17	1	.088	.133	.105	.239	-40.8	-33.9	.119	4.6
1998	27	59	48	3	8	1	0	2	3	6	0	.167	.216	.188	.403	7.2	10.6	.193	1.9
1999	32	69	58	1	5	0	0	2	1	18	1	.086	.102	.086	.188	-62.1	-50.4	.089	2.5
2000	22	33	25	2	5	2	1	3	1	10	0	.200	.231	.400	.631	53.3	58.4	.272	-0.1
2001	27	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-2.7	6.5	.179	1.7
2002	31	4	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.8	-100.0	.000	2.9
2003	22	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.2	-100.0	.000	-0.4
2004	34	59	52	6	10	4	0	5	3	13	0	.192	.232	.269	.501	27.7	32.7	.226	-0.1
2005	14	16	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	-33.0	-17.0	.139	-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
1994	21	1	3	1	0	0	0	21	10	10	28	2	28.3	3.18	1.094	8.89	3.07	77.0	125.4	0.5
1995	33	27	13	11	1	6	2	168	67	51	150	17	197.7	3.05	1.108	6.83	3.46	89.4	126.7	3.4
1996	33	33	15	7	0	0	0	219	83	54	173	20	225.0	3.32	1.213	6.92	3.47	88.6	118.0	3.6
1997	30	30	10	11	0	0	0	171	58	47	140	16	196.7	2.65	1.108	6.41	3.47	88.6	147.5	4.6
1998	27	27	11	10	0	2	2	171	77	66	122	17	174.0	3.98	1.362	6.31	4.11	102.1	101.0	1.9
1999	32	32	9	14	0	2	1	213	90	58	143	32	203.3	3.98	1.333	6.33	4.66	107.2	109.1	2.5
2000	21	20	2	7	0	0	0	124	67	40	74	22	107.0	5.64	1.533	6.22	5.55	124.0	79.4	-0.1
2001	27	27	9	13	0	1	0	177	81	50	100	20	163.7	4.45	1.387	5.50	4.53	101.0	100.6	1.7
2002	31	31	8	12	0	1	0	194	91	47	102	26	196.0	4.18	1.230	4.68	4.60	99.4	111.0	2.9
2003	22	22	8	8	0	0	0	148	78	29	47	23	115.0	6.10	1.539	3.68	5.76	116.9	80.8	-0.4
2004	34	31	14	9	0	1	1	202	98	49	67	33	170.0	5.19	1.476	3.55	5.59	136.3	79.1	-0.1
2005	14	7	2	2	0	0	0	64	30	22	27	6	50.7	5.33	1.697	4.80	5.06	124.7	76.2	-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

326

474

399

RBI

122

.1303

OBP

.1574

SLG

.1604

OPS

.3178

Pitching

G (P)

325

288

390th-most career GS

104

105

498th-most career L

SHO

1,827

SO (P)

1,173

411th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

523

ERA

4.088

WHIP

1.3107

K/9

5.78

422nd-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	TB
2004-07-19	SD @ COL Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	2	4
2000-05-24	CHC @ COL Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	1	4
2000-08-22	WSH @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1996-08-31	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1996-09-16	LAD @ COL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1995-08-16	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	1	0	0	11	0
1995-06-06	WSH @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	10	0
1999-04-24	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	10	1
1999-07-31	AZ @ LAD Gameday	8.0	7	3	3	0	10	1
1996-04-24	HOU @ LAD Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	1	10	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.