José María Fernández

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 170 lb

BornJune 6, 1896 · Guanabacoa, La Habana, Cuba

Seasons20 (1916–1947)

Cuban Stars East 1916–1920; Cuban Stars East 1922–1929; Cuban Stars West 1929; Chicago American Giants 1930; New York Cubans 1939–1942; New York Cubans 1944; New York Cubans 1947

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

9.8

212

5.5

193

6.1

4.9

7.3

RBI

6.1

4.9

73.2

34.8

.285

29.9

OBP

.330

16.5

SLG

.332

8.5

OPS

.662

11.6

wRC+

66.8

6.7

OPS+

62.8

6.7

wOBA

.313

11.6

sWAR

0.2

20.7

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 179 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.2

79.8

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1916	8	28	26	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.192	.222	.192	.415	22.6	12.5	.208	-0.1
1917	26	111	102	13	33	5	0	0	16	7	0	1	.324	.367	.373	.740	98.8	101.0	.368	0.5
1918	25	104	93	11	32	4	3	0	15	9	0	1	.344	.402	.452	.854	138.8	144.0	.417	1.2
1919	17	73	65	11	25	3	0	0	14	5	0	2	.385	.429	.431	.859	156.7	162.3	.421	0.8
1920	14	59	56	6	14	2	0	0	10	2	0	0	.250	.276	.286	.562	87.4	91.8	.280	0.2
1922	16	60	51	5	11	1	1	1	3	5	0	2	.216	.286	.333	.619	78.3	75.8	.294	0.1
1923	32	125	113	13	26	9	0	0	16	5	0	1	.230	.269	.310	.579	67.1	62.0	.272	0.1
1924	48	186	169	13	43	3	0	0	18	14	1	1	.254	.319	.272	.591	69.3	61.6	.289	0.0
1925	35	143	133	13	37	4	1	1	14	9	0	2	.278	.324	.346	.670	76.3	73.4	.312	0.2
1926	42	162	146	19	39	7	2	1	19	11	0	2	.267	.327	.363	.690	88.3	88.5	.329	0.6
1927	55	207	186	18	49	6	0	1	25	15	0	2	.263	.318	.312	.630	69.3	65.8	.302	0.2
1928	30	129	125	11	44	7	1	0	18	1	0	2	.352	.362	.424	.786	100.3	102.2	.358	0.5
1929	57	212	193	22	55	7	1	0	21	12	0	0	.285	.330	.332	.662	66.8	62.8	.313	0.2
1930	32	118	103	13	41	5	2	0	27	8	0	0	.398	.446	.485	.932	144.2	148.0	.428	1.3
1939	5	15	14	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.071	.133	.071	.205	-24.2	-44.4	.113	-0.2
1940	17	57	52	9	12	2	0	0	7	5	0	0	.231	.298	.269	.567	57.2	48.5	.277	0.0
1941	23	61	59	1	13	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	.220	.246	.237	.483	36.5	35.9	.221	-0.1
1942	11	20	19	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.105	.150	.105	.255	-12.4	-26.7	.133	-0.2
1944	6	6	6	1	2	2	0	0	5	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	148.3	163.5	.443	0.1
1947	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-96.0	-100.0	.000	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1918	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	9	2	3	5	0	8.3	2.16	1.440	5.40	2.83	86.0	152.2	1.2

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

500

1,877

1,712

182

484

RBI

233

113

.2827

OBP

.3301

SLG

.3423

OPS

.6724

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

2.160

WHIP

1.4400

K/9

5.40

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	RBI	BB	TB
1923-09-05	CSE @ HIL Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	2	0	5
1930-08-30	MEM @ CAG Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	0	5
1930-08-03	CAG @ MEM Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	2	2	4
1923-07-22	CSE @ BBS Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	0	3
1941-06-07	NYC @ PHS Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-30	CSE @ BBS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	CSE @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-13	CSE @ NYL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-05-19	CSE @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-06-02	CSE @ HIL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.