MLB / Players

John Pacella

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb
BornSeptember 15, 1956 · Brooklyn, NY, USA
MLB debutSeptember 15, 1977
Final gameJuly 12, 1986
Seasons6 (1977–1986)

New York Mets 1977; New York Mets 1979–1980; Minnesota Twins 1982; New York Yankees 1982; Baltimore Orioles 1984; Detroit Tigers 1986

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
-2.6
0.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
197730000000000000.2
19794440000000100.000.000.000.000-125.1-100.0.0000.0
19803222200210010700.100.100.150.250-48.7-30.2.113-0.9
198224000000000000-1.6
19846000000000000-0.3
198650000000000000.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19773000000202104.00.001.0002.253.7399.70.2
19794302000168412016.34.411.2246.611.9653.682.90.0
198032153400089485968584.05.141.7627.294.08115.368.8-0.9
198224213200745046221461.77.301.9463.217.21172.357.2-1.6
19846101000151198214.76.751.6364.915.27134.957.9-0.3
19865000100105135011.04.092.0914.095.43131.4101.00.1

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

G
74
PA
26
AB
24
R
0
H
2
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
0
SO
8
SB
0
BA
.0833
OBP
.0833
SLG
.1250
OPS
.2083

Pitching

G (P)
74
GS
21
W
4
L
10
SV
3
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
192
SO (P)
116
BB allowed
133
ERA
5.729
WHIP
1.7687
K/9
5.45

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1980-07-17NYM @ ATL Gameday301100002
1980-05-04SD @ NYM Gameday101000101
1977-09-15NYM @ PHI Gameday000000000
1977-09-23STL @ NYM Gameday000000000
1977-10-01NYM @ STL Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1980-07-17NYM @ ATL Gameday6.2400270
1979-09-30NYM @ STL Gameday6.0311170
1980-06-27NYM @ PHI Gameday6.0522371
1980-07-02CHC @ NYM Gameday7.1211360
1980-06-07PIT @ NYM Gameday4.0532340

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.