John Candelaria

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 7 in · 230 lb

BornNovember 6, 1953 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutJune 8, 1975

Final gameJuly 7, 1993

Seasons19 (1975–1993)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1975–1984; California Angels 1985; Pittsburgh Pirates 1985; California Angels 1986–1987; New York Mets 1987; New York Yankees 1988; Montreal Expos 1989; New York Yankees 1989; Minnesota Twins 1990; Toronto Blue Jays 1990; Los Angeles Dodgers 1991–1992; Pittsburgh Pirates 1993

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified pitchers

38.7

31.2

48.4

98.9

19.4

SHO

179

81.7

97.8

100

133

59.1

37.6

185.3

25.8

ERA

2.72

95.7

WHIP

1.149

89.2

K/9

6.46

FIP

3.26

FIP-

90.8

69.9

ERA+

131.9

92.5

sWAR

3.9

77.4

of 94 qualified 1984 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.5

79.4

sWAR

40.2

97.9

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1975	18	46	43	2	6	0	0	0	2	3	12	0	.140	.196	.140	.335	-10.1	-4.4	.173	2.3
1976	32	88	76	5	14	2	1	0	5	7	17	0	.184	.253	.237	.490	40.5	40.8	.242	3.4
1977	33	88	80	5	18	3	2	0	11	4	18	1	.225	.262	.313	.574	50.4	53.2	.264	7.0
1978	31	70	52	6	9	3	0	0	1	9	19	0	.173	.317	.231	.548	65.5	54.0	.284	3.3
1979	33	77	68	0	9	4	0	0	6	1	18	0	.132	.145	.191	.336	-25.8	-10.2	.154	3.5
1980	35	85	77	5	15	3	0	0	7	4	14	0	.195	.232	.234	.465	23.5	29.8	.222	1.5
1981	6	16	13	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	.231	.214	.231	.445	7.0	24.6	.201	0.5
1982	33	64	54	6	12	2	0	0	9	6	20	0	.222	.295	.259	.554	56.8	54.5	.271	3.8
1983	33	75	65	4	9	1	0	0	2	5	17	0	.138	.200	.154	.354	-6.3	-1.1	.179	3.1
1984	33	70	62	6	8	2	0	1	2	4	25	1	.129	.182	.210	.391	4.0	10.2	.189	3.9
1985	50	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	1.4
1986	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
1987	23	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	2.2	9.7	.183	0.6
1988	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1989	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1990	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1991	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1992	50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	409.4	—	.750	0.5
1993	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1975	18	18	8	6	0	4	1	95	37	36	95	8	120.7	2.76	1.086	7.09	2.85	80.0	129.0	2.3
1976	32	31	16	7	1	11	4	173	77	60	138	22	220.0	3.15	1.059	5.65	3.54	101.8	110.3	3.4
1977	33	33	20	5	0	6	1	197	60	50	133	29	230.7	2.34	1.071	5.19	3.89	98.5	168.7	7.0
1978	30	29	12	11	1	3	1	191	68	49	94	15	189.0	3.24	1.270	4.48	3.52	95.6	113.6	3.3
1979	33	30	14	9	0	8	0	201	74	41	101	25	207.0	3.22	1.169	4.39	3.92	101.5	120.1	3.5
1980	35	34	11	14	1	7	0	246	104	50	97	14	233.3	4.01	1.269	3.74	3.38	92.1	91.4	1.5
1981	6	6	2	2	0	0	0	42	16	11	14	3	40.7	3.54	1.303	3.10	3.75	103.9	102.0	0.5
1982	31	30	12	7	1	1	1	166	57	37	133	13	174.7	2.94	1.162	6.85	2.90	77.8	126.8	3.8
1983	33	32	15	8	0	2	0	191	71	45	157	15	197.7	3.23	1.194	7.15	2.78	75.2	114.5	3.1
1984	33	28	12	11	2	3	1	179	56	34	133	19	185.3	2.72	1.149	6.46	3.26	90.8	131.9	3.9
1985	50	13	9	7	9	1	1	127	52	38	100	14	125.3	3.73	1.316	7.18	3.55	91.8	103.8	1.4
1986	16	16	10	2	0	1	1	68	26	26	81	4	91.7	2.55	1.025	7.95	2.54	61.6	161.7	2.5
1987	23	23	10	6	0	0	0	144	69	23	84	18	129.0	4.81	1.295	5.86	3.94	91.5	89.4	0.6
1988	25	24	13	7	1	6	2	150	59	23	121	18	157.0	3.38	1.102	6.94	3.25	82.2	116.9	2.6
1989	22	6	3	5	0	1	0	66	34	16	51	11	65.3	4.68	1.255	7.03	4.17	110.1	80.9	0.0
1990	47	3	7	6	5	0	0	87	35	20	63	11	79.7	3.95	1.343	7.12	3.85	94.7	102.9	0.9
1991	59	0	1	1	2	0	0	31	14	11	38	3	33.7	3.74	1.248	10.16	2.67	74.2	96.3	0.3
1992	50	0	2	5	5	0	0	20	8	13	23	1	25.3	2.84	1.303	8.17	3.01	87.0	121.9	0.5
1993	24	0	0	3	1	0	0	25	18	9	17	2	19.7	8.24	1.729	7.78	4.09	101.4	49.0	-0.7

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

603

688

596

104

RBI

162

.1745

OBP

.2326

SLG

.2232

OPS

.4558

Pitching

G (P)

600

244th-most career G (P)

356

207th-most career GS

177

171st-most career W

122

324th-most career L

SHO

478th-most career SHO

2,526

248th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,673

172nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

592

ERA

3.332

332nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1842

130th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.96

388th-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
1980-09-21	NYM @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	2	0	0	4
1984-07-19	SD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	4
1980-09-26	PIT @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	4	3
1976-08-29	SF @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	3
1976-07-25	PIT @ PHI Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1975-10-07	CIN @ PIT Gameday	7.2	3	3	3	2	14	2
1975-06-26	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	3	13	2
1988-05-22	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	13	0
1976-06-01	PIT @ NYM Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	0	12	2
1988-07-02	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	12	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.