MLB / Players

John Wetteland

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 21, 1966 · San Mateo, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 31, 1989

Final gameSeptember 20, 2000

Seasons12 (1989–2000)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1989–1991; Montreal Expos 1992–1994; New York Yankees 1995–1996; Texas Rangers 1997–2000

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

18.9

93.1

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	HR	RBI	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1989	31	26	21	1	3	1	0	3	10	.143	.143	.190	.333	-16.9	-4.0	.152	0.5
1990	22	8	7	2	1	0	1	3	1	.143	.143	.571	.714	81.5	90.2	.299	-0.1
1991	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1992	67	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	0.3	14.6	.186	1.4
1993	70	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.2	-100.0	.000	3.5
1994	52	5	4	0	1	0	0	1	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	25.0	31.8	.227	1.6
1995	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1996	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1997	61	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	705.4	644.7	1.272	2.7
1998	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1999	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2000	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1989	31	12	5	8	1	81	43	34	96	8	102.7	3.77	1.120	8.42	2.80	81.9	90.6	0.5
1990	22	5	2	4	0	44	23	17	36	6	43.0	4.81	1.419	7.53	4.41	120.1	76.4	-0.1
1991	6	0	1	0	0	5	0	3	9	0	9.0	0.00	.889	9.00	2.13	59.0	—	0.5
1992	67	0	4	4	37	64	27	36	99	6	83.3	2.92	1.200	10.69	2.78	79.8	119.2	1.4
1993	70	0	9	3	43	58	13	28	113	3	85.3	1.37	1.008	11.92	1.84	44.8	299.5	3.5
1994	52	0	4	6	25	46	20	21	68	5	63.7	2.83	1.052	9.61	3.08	73.5	148.4	1.6
1995	60	0	1	5	31	40	20	14	66	6	61.3	2.93	.880	9.68	2.94	63.3	158.5	1.7
1996	62	0	2	3	43	54	20	21	69	9	63.7	2.83	1.178	9.75	3.91	79.1	174.7	2.0
1997	61	0	7	2	31	43	14	21	63	5	65.0	1.94	.985	8.72	3.18	66.7	245.5	2.7
1998	63	0	3	1	42	47	14	14	72	6	62.0	2.03	.984	10.45	2.83	59.1	236.1	2.4
1999	62	0	4	4	43	67	27	19	60	9	66.0	3.68	1.303	8.18	4.02	79.7	137.1	1.6
2000	62	0	6	5	34	67	28	24	53	10	60.0	4.20	1.517	7.95	4.92	97.0	120.9	1.1

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

618

RBI

.1667

OBP

.1667

SLG

.2857

OPS

.4524

Pitching

G (P)

618

216th-most career G (P)

330

17th-most career SV

SHO

765

SO (P)

804

BB allowed

252

ERA

2.929

WHIP

1.1346

K/9

9.46

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
1990-05-27	LAD @ STL Gameday	2	2	1	0	1	2	4
1989-09-20	LAD @ SF Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	3	2
1997-08-16	TEX @ NYY Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	1	2
1994-06-14	PIT @ WSH Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1	1
1989-06-27	SD @ LAD Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1989-08-29	NYM @ LAD Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	2	10	0
1992-09-23	PIT @ WSH Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	1	7	0
1989-09-25	SF @ LAD Gameday	7.0	7	2	2	1	6	2
1990-05-06	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5.0	2	1	1	2	6	1
1989-09-04	LAD @ HOU Gameday	3.1	5	5	5	1	6	2

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× World Series MVP3× 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.