Javier Valentin
Minnesota Twins 1997–1999; Minnesota Twins 2002; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2003; Cincinnati Reds 2004–2008
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 44.4 | 49.4 | .258 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 55 | 177 | 162 | 11 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .198 | .247 | .309 | .556 | 37.8 | 43.1 | .247 | -0.3 |
| 1999 | 78 | 247 | 218 | 22 | 54 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 28 | 22 | 39 | 0 | 0 | .248 | .313 | .381 | .694 | 72.8 | 74.0 | .310 | 0.6 |
| 2002 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 176.4 | 168.3 | .447 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 49 | 142 | 135 | 13 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .254 | .356 | .609 | 56.3 | 59.6 | .266 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 82 | 222 | 202 | 18 | 47 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 36 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .293 | .381 | .674 | 68.9 | 73.9 | .294 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 76 | 254 | 221 | 36 | 62 | 11 | 0 | 14 | 50 | 30 | 37 | 0 | 0 | .281 | .362 | .520 | .883 | 127.4 | 127.5 | .380 | 2.2 |
| 2006 | 92 | 201 | 186 | 24 | 50 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 27 | 13 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .313 | .441 | .754 | 82.1 | 87.0 | .323 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 97 | 265 | 243 | 19 | 67 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 19 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .276 | .328 | .387 | .715 | 79.6 | 81.1 | .318 | 0.8 |
| 2008 | 94 | 144 | 129 | 10 | 33 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .326 | .411 | .737 | 92.1 | 90.7 | .330 | 0.4 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-09-08 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1999-06-06 | HOU @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2005-07-17 | COL @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 2005-07-21 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2004-07-22 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
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.