MLB / Players

Jose Contreras

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 255 lb
BornDecember 6, 1971 · La Martinas, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
MLB debutMarch 31, 2003
Final gameMay 27, 2013
Seasons11 (2003–2013)

New York Yankees 2003; Chicago White Sox 2004; New York Yankees 2004; Chicago White Sox 2005–2009; Colorado Rockies 2009; Philadelphia Phillies 2010–2012; Pittsburgh Pirates 2013

Percentile snapshot

2007 season — qualified pitchers

G
32
34.2
GS
30
15.2
W
10
20.3
L
17
1.3
CG
2
73.4
SHO
2
96.2
H
232
11.4
ER
117
2.5
BB
62
49.4
SO
113
21.5
HR
21
53.2
IP
189.0
29.1
ERA
5.57
2.5
WHIP
1.556
7.6
K/9
5.38
26.6
FIP
4.78
16.5
FIP-
102.7
24.1
ERA+
83.5
3.8
sWAR
0.0
5.1

of 80 qualified 2007 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
99.5
36.4
sWAR
11.4
88.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
200318330000000200.000.000.000.000-117.9-100.0.0001.5
200431880000000500.000.000.000.000-118.7-100.0.0000.1
200532430000001200.000.250.000.250-3.1-25.6.1824.1
200630641000002200.000.333.000.33334.4-3.2.2442.9
200732110000000100.000.000.000.000-123.3-100.0.0000.0
200820110000000100.000.000.000.000-126.1-100.0.0001.1
2009281090000000500.000.000.000.000-132.7-100.0.0000.8
2010670000000000001.0
2011170000000000000.1
201217000000000000-0.1
20137000000000000-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
20031897200052263072471.03.301.1559.133.2874.1134.21.5
200431311390001661048415031170.35.501.4687.935.38116.384.40.1
20053232157010177827515423204.73.611.2316.774.2494.2124.84.1
20063030139011194935513420196.04.271.2706.154.1488.6109.52.9
2007323010170222321176211321189.05.571.5565.384.78102.783.50.0
200820207601013061357012121.04.541.3645.214.2494.498.91.1
20092823613000141725310613131.74.921.4737.254.1589.794.00.8
20106706440053211657556.73.341.2189.053.3081.7121.11.0
201117000500116813014.03.861.3578.363.0780.798.50.1
201217010000138315113.75.271.1719.882.7769.475.8-0.1
20137000000756515.09.002.6009.007.22202.539.6-0.3

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
299
PA
33
AB
29
R
1
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
3
SO
18
SB
0
BA
.0000
OBP
.0938
SLG
.0000
OPS
.0938

Pitching

G (P)
299
GS
175
W
78
L
67
SV
9
CG
5
SHO
3
IP
1,173
SO (P)
889
BB allowed
427
ERA
4.565
WHIP
1.3666
K/9
6.82
233rd-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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
2003-06-05NYY @ CIN Gameday300000000
2003-10-22NYY @ MIA Gameday000000000
2003-10-23NYY @ MIA Gameday000000000
2004-06-15NYY @ AZ Gameday300000000
2004-06-20NYY @ LAD Gameday200000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
2006-06-17CWS @ CIN Gameday6.07552131
2006-06-12CWS @ TEX Gameday8.06330111
2008-05-25LAA @ CWS Gameday8.03220101
2004-06-27NYM @ NYY Gameday6.02004100
2005-09-23MIN @ CWS Gameday9.0611190

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

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.