Jason Vargas

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 215 lb

BornFebruary 2, 1983 · Apple Valley, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 14, 2005

Final gameSeptember 26, 2019

Seasons14 (2005–2019)

Florida Marlins 2005–2006; New York Mets 2007; Seattle Mariners 2009–2012; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2013; Kansas City Royals 2014–2017; New York Mets 2018–2019; Philadelphia Phillies 2019

Percentile snapshot

2017 season — qualified pitchers

43.9

52.6

94.7

35.1

54.4

SHO

75.4

181

33.3

42.1

47.4

134

19.3

24.6

179.7

38.6

ERA

4.16

40.4

WHIP

1.330

33.3

K/9

6.71

21.1

FIP

4.65

FIP-

105.0

17.5

ERA+

106.7

45.6

sWAR

2.4

43.9

of 58 qualified 2017 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.2

13.3

sWAR

11.4

88.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2005	18	27	26	3	8	2	2	1	7	.308	.333	.385	.718	92.6	92.2	.322	1.0
2006	12	17	16	1	5	1	1	1	2	.313	.353	.375	.728	92.4	89.5	.329	-0.8
2007	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.3	-100.0	.000	-0.8
2009	23	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	28.8	35.3	.224	0.3
2010	31	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.3	-100.0	.000	2.2
2011	32	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.1	-100.0	.000	0.8
2012	33	6	5	2	2	0	1	1	2	.400	.500	.400	.900	173.2	161.3	.416	2.3
2013	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2014	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
2015	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2016	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2017	32	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	26.7	34.3	.219	2.4
2018	21	31	27	2	4	0	0	1	8	.148	.179	.148	.327	-14.3	-6.8	.154	-1.2
2019	30	45	40	0	3	0	0	0	22	.075	.075	.075	.150	-74.0	-59.8	.066	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2005	17	13	5	5	1	0	71	33	31	59	4	73.7	4.03	1.385	7.21	3.52	86.7	100.8	1.0
2006	12	5	1	2	0	0	50	35	30	25	9	43.0	7.33	1.860	5.23	7.04	159.7	60.2	-0.8
2007	2	2	0	1	0	0	17	14	2	4	4	10.3	12.19	1.839	3.48	8.02	186.2	35.3	-0.8
2009	23	14	3	6	0	0	98	50	24	54	16	91.7	4.91	1.331	5.30	5.12	119.4	87.3	0.3
2010	31	31	9	12	0	0	187	81	54	116	18	192.7	3.78	1.251	5.42	3.91	99.3	104.2	2.2
2011	32	32	10	13	4	3	205	95	59	131	22	201.0	4.25	1.313	5.87	4.12	110.0	88.1	0.8
2012	33	33	14	11	2	0	201	93	55	141	35	217.3	3.85	1.178	5.84	4.64	121.0	99.6	2.3
2013	24	24	9	8	3	2	162	67	46	109	17	150.0	4.02	1.387	6.54	4.12	107.3	95.4	1.2
2014	30	30	11	10	1	1	197	77	41	128	19	187.0	3.71	1.273	6.16	3.87	100.0	104.4	2.2
2015	9	9	5	2	0	0	46	19	12	27	5	43.0	3.98	1.349	5.65	4.27	103.9	103.3	0.5
2016	3	3	0	0	0	0	8	3	3	11	1	12.0	2.25	.917	8.25	3.11	73.2	188.7	0.4
2017	32	32	18	11	1	1	181	83	58	134	27	179.7	4.16	1.330	6.71	4.65	105.0	106.7	2.4
2018	20	20	7	9	0	0	100	59	30	84	18	92.0	5.77	1.413	8.22	4.98	132.1	65.4	-1.2
2019	30	29	7	9	1	1	141	75	63	124	21	149.7	4.51	1.363	7.46	4.72	111.0	94.4	0.9

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

300

146

132

RBI

.1818

OBP

.2059

SLG

.2045

OPS

.4104

Pitching

G (P)

298

277

430th-most career GS

SHO

1,643

SO (P)

1,147

437th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

508

ERA

4.295

WHIP

1.3220

K/9

6.28

321st-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	RBI	TB
2006-04-18	MIA @ CIN Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2
2005-08-26	MIA @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
2005-07-18	MIA @ AZ Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	2
2005-08-05	MIA @ CIN Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	2
2006-05-04	MIA @ WSH Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2011-09-26	ATH @ SEA Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	0	10	0
2012-06-26	ATH @ SEA Gameday	6.2	3	2	2	2	10	1
2019-06-26	NYM @ PHI Gameday	6.1	3	2	2	2	10	1
2010-07-18	SEA @ LAA Gameday	7.2	4	1	1	1	9	1
2011-05-18	LAA @ SEA Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	2	9	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.

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.