Jesse Orosco

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 174 lb

BornApril 21, 1957 · Santa Barbara, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 5, 1979

Final gameSeptember 27, 2003

Seasons24 (1979–2003)

New York Mets 1979; New York Mets 1981–1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1988; Cleveland Indians 1989–1991; Milwaukee Brewers 1992–1994; Baltimore Orioles 1995–1999; St. Louis Cardinals 2000; Los Angeles Dodgers 2001–2002; Minnesota Twins 2003; New York Yankees 2003; San Diego Padres 2003

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

ERA+

125.1

93.8

sWAR

25.0

95.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1979	18	7	6	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.1	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1981	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.6	-100.0	.000	0.6
1982	54	14	14	0	2	0	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.286	-34.3	-19.5	.133	2.2
1983	62	16	12	0	4	2	1	3	.333	.357	.333	.690	92.4	93.6	.320	4.1
1984	60	8	4	1	1	1	3	2	.250	.571	.250	.821	190.0	141.4	.456	2.0
1985	54	9	7	0	3	0	0	1	.429	.429	.429	.857	151.7	145.3	.398	1.6
1986	58	6	3	1	0	1	2	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	47.7	2.4	.250	2.1
1987	58	9	8	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.5	-100.0	.000	0.2
1988	55	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.3	-100.0	.000	0.9
1989	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
1990	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1991	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1992	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1993	57	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.0	-100.0	.000	1.2
1994	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1995	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
1996	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1997	71	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	362.2	—	.736	1.6
1998	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1999	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
2000	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2001	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
2002	56	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	378.2	—	.741	0.6
2003	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	18	2	1	2	0	33	19	22	22	4	35.0	4.89	1.571	5.66	4.98	136.3	74.8	-0.2
1981	8	0	0	1	1	13	3	6	18	2	17.3	1.56	1.096	9.35	3.13	90.3	222.6	0.6
1982	54	2	4	10	4	92	33	40	89	7	109.3	2.72	1.207	7.33	3.10	86.1	132.7	2.2
1983	62	0	13	7	17	76	18	38	84	3	110.0	1.47	1.036	6.87	2.56	70.8	245.9	4.1
1984	60	0	10	6	31	58	25	34	85	7	87.0	2.59	1.057	8.79	3.13	88.5	136.6	2.0
1985	54	0	8	6	17	66	24	34	68	6	79.0	2.73	1.266	7.75	3.18	91.1	127.4	1.6
1986	58	0	8	6	21	64	21	35	62	6	81.0	2.33	1.222	6.89	3.59	99.8	153.9	2.1
1987	58	0	3	9	16	78	38	31	78	5	77.0	4.44	1.416	9.12	2.97	76.8	87.1	0.2
1988	55	0	3	2	9	41	16	30	43	4	53.0	2.72	1.340	7.30	3.88	116.9	122.1	0.9
1989	69	0	3	4	3	54	18	26	79	7	78.0	2.08	1.026	9.12	3.07	77.8	189.9	2.5
1990	55	0	5	4	2	58	28	38	55	9	64.7	3.90	1.485	7.65	4.68	119.7	100.3	0.7
1991	47	0	2	0	0	52	19	15	36	4	45.7	3.74	1.467	7.09	3.52	85.1	110.5	0.7
1992	59	0	3	1	1	33	14	13	40	5	39.0	3.23	1.179	9.23	3.48	89.9	119.8	0.7
1993	57	0	3	5	8	47	20	17	67	2	56.7	3.18	1.129	10.64	2.15	50.8	133.5	1.2
1994	40	0	3	1	0	32	22	26	36	4	39.0	5.08	1.487	8.31	4.84	97.4	97.9	0.3
1995	65	0	2	4	3	28	18	27	58	4	49.7	3.26	1.107	10.51	3.54	75.3	144.2	1.2
1996	66	0	3	1	0	42	21	28	52	5	55.7	3.40	1.257	8.41	4.17	84.7	144.9	1.4
1997	71	0	6	3	0	29	13	30	46	6	50.3	2.32	1.172	8.23	4.66	105.2	190.4	1.6
1998	69	0	4	1	7	46	20	28	50	6	56.7	3.18	1.306	7.94	4.37	96.0	143.3	1.4
1999	65	0	0	2	1	28	19	20	35	5	32.0	5.34	1.500	9.84	5.11	108.8	87.9	0.1
2000	6	0	0	0	0	3	1	3	4	1	2.3	3.86	2.571	15.43	11.63	250.9	120.2	0.0
2001	35	0	0	1	0	17	7	7	21	3	16.0	3.94	1.500	11.81	4.13	100.3	104.6	0.2
2002	56	0	1	2	1	24	9	12	22	4	27.0	3.00	1.333	7.33	4.51	115.9	129.6	0.6
2003	65	0	2	2	2	41	29	21	29	4	34.0	7.68	1.824	7.68	4.95	119.5	53.9	-1.0

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

1,252

RBI

.1695

OBP

.2609

SLG

.1695

OPS

.4304

Pitching

G (P)

1,252

Most career G (P) of all time

144

96th-most career SV

SHO

1,295

SO (P)

1,179

404th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

581

ERA

3.161

242nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2630

399th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.19

86th-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	H	RBI	TB
1983-08-05	NYM @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	1
1984-04-29	PHI @ NYM Gameday	1	1	1	1
1986-10-27	BOS @ NYM Gameday	1	1	1	1
1982-09-10	NYM @ STL Gameday	1	1	0	1
1982-09-28	PIT @ NYM Gameday	1	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1982-06-08	PIT @ NYM Gameday	6.0	5	4	4	2	5	1
1982-05-28	HOU @ NYM Gameday	5.0	3	1	1	1	5	0
1982-05-02	NYM @ SF Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	5	0
1983-07-14	CIN @ NYM Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	5	0
1984-05-15	NYM @ SF Gameday	3.0	4	1	1	5	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.

Honors

2× 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.