MLB / Players

Johan Santana

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 210 lb

BornMarch 13, 1979 · Tovar, Mérida, Venezuela

MLB debutApril 3, 2000

Final gameAugust 17, 2012

Seasons12 (2000–2012)

Minnesota Twins 2000–2007; New York Mets 2008–2010; New York Mets 2012

Percentile snapshot

2010 season — qualified pitchers

8.8

12.1

29.7

65.9

87.9

SHO

91.2

179

70.3

86.8

71.4

144

42.9

68.1

199.0

49.5

ERA

2.98

84.6

WHIP

1.176

K/9

6.51

34.1

FIP

3.56

70.3

FIP-

91.3

60.4

ERA+

130.8

79.1

sWAR

4.3

79.1

of 92 qualified 2010 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

135.8

98.1

sWAR

46.1

98.5

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2000	30	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.5	-100.0	.000	-0.4
2001	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
2002	27	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	28.1	34.2	.223	2.8
2003	45	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	75.3	76.7	.298	4.1
2004	34	8	8	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	.375	.375	.375	.750	97.0	96.0	.336	7.4
2005	33	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-22.2	-10.6	.149	6.2
2006	34	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.5	-100.0	.000	6.7
2007	33	8	7	2	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	.286	.375	.714	1.089	181.1	184.7	.457	4.8
2008	34	83	78	5	11	5	0	0	1	3	24	.141	.173	.205	.378	-10.4	0.2	.173	6.7
2009	25	57	42	1	7	3	0	0	4	5	14	.167	.255	.238	.493	33.2	33.5	.238	3.7
2010	29	67	62	2	11	3	0	1	1	0	22	.177	.177	.274	.452	10.1	21.7	.197	4.3
2012	21	40	35	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	14	.086	.086	.086	.171	-72.6	-52.0	.077	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2000	30	5	2	3	0	0	0	102	62	54	64	11	86.0	6.49	1.814	6.70	5.35	105.4	78.3	-0.4
2001	15	4	1	0	0	0	0	50	23	16	28	6	43.7	4.74	1.511	5.77	4.91	107.8	96.0	0.3
2002	27	14	8	6	1	0	0	84	36	49	137	7	108.3	2.99	1.228	11.38	2.76	61.6	149.5	2.8
2003	45	18	12	3	0	0	0	127	54	47	169	17	158.3	3.07	1.099	9.61	3.30	72.1	149.2	4.1
2004	34	34	20	6	0	1	1	156	66	54	265	24	228.0	2.61	.921	10.46	3.03	64.6	180.1	7.4
2005	33	33	16	7	0	3	2	180	74	45	238	22	231.7	2.87	.971	9.25	2.83	64.6	152.3	6.2
2006	34	34	19	6	0	1	0	186	72	47	245	24	233.7	2.77	.997	9.44	3.08	68.8	161.5	6.7
2007	33	33	15	13	0	1	1	183	81	52	235	33	219.0	3.33	1.073	9.66	3.89	89.5	130.6	4.8
2008	34	34	16	7	0	3	2	206	66	63	206	23	234.3	2.53	1.148	7.91	3.48	82.9	165.6	6.7
2009	25	25	13	9	0	0	0	156	58	46	146	20	166.7	3.13	1.212	7.88	3.75	91.7	130.5	3.7
2010	29	29	11	9	0	4	2	179	66	55	144	16	199.0	2.98	1.176	6.51	3.56	91.3	130.8	4.3
2012	21	21	6	9	0	2	2	117	63	39	111	17	117.0	4.85	1.333	8.54	4.13	109.0	78.1	-0.5

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

360

279

248

RBI

.1613

OBP

.1907

SLG

.2298

OPS

.4205

Pitching

G (P)

360

284

406th-most career GS

139

317th-most career W

SHO

2,026

442nd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,988

93rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

567

ERA

3.203

256th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1320

50th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.83

43rd-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2008-04-23	NYM @ WSH Gameday	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	4
2010-07-06	CIN @ NYM Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4
2010-05-28	NYM @ MIL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
2007-06-24	MIN @ MIA Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	3
2004-06-20	MIN @ MIL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2007-08-19	TEX @ MIN Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	0	17	0
2004-09-19	BAL @ MIN Gameday	8.0	7	0	0	0	14	0
2005-06-02	CLE @ MIN Gameday	8.0	4	3	3	1	14	2
2004-07-06	KC @ MIN Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	13	0
2002-07-28	TOR @ MIN Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	3	13	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× Cy Young Award1× Pitching Triple Crown1× Gold Glove4× 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.