MLB / Players

Jose Mercedes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 5, 1971 · El Seibo, El Seibo, D.R.

MLB debutMay 31, 1994

Final gameSeptember 24, 2003

Seasons8 (1994–2003)

Milwaukee Brewers 1994–1998; Baltimore Orioles 2000–2001; Montreal Expos 2003

Percentile snapshot

2001 season — qualified pitchers

39.8

30.1

3.6

2.4

49.4

SHO

219

28.9

119

3.6

123

31.3

66.3

184.0

26.5

ERA

5.82

1.2

WHIP

1.533

7.2

K/9

6.02

FIP

4.36

42.2

FIP-

104.1

26.5

ERA+

72.0

sWAR

-1.5

1.2

of 84 qualified 2001 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.0

76.8

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	H	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1994	19	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1995	5	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
1996	11	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1997	29	2	2	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.7	-100.0	.000	2.9
1998	7	12	11	1	6	.091	.167	.091	.258	-35.6	-29.7	.137	-0.6
2000	36	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-113.3	-100.0	.000	2.4
2001	33	5	5	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-114.4	-100.0	.000	-1.5
2003	5	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1994	19	0	2	0	0	0	22	8	16	11	4	31.0	2.32	1.226	3.19	5.91	118.9	213.9	1.1
1995	5	0	0	1	0	0	12	8	8	6	1	7.3	9.82	2.727	7.36	6.55	133.2	50.1	-0.3
1996	11	0	0	2	0	0	20	17	5	6	6	16.7	9.18	1.500	3.24	8.11	158.0	55.9	-0.5
1997	29	23	7	10	2	1	146	67	53	80	24	159.0	3.79	1.252	4.53	5.20	112.9	121.3	2.9
1998	7	5	2	2	0	0	42	24	9	11	5	32.0	6.75	1.594	3.09	5.35	125.5	63.1	-0.6
2000	36	20	14	7	1	0	150	65	64	70	15	145.7	4.02	1.469	4.32	4.98	107.7	115.2	2.4
2001	33	31	8	17	2	0	219	119	63	123	20	184.0	5.82	1.533	6.02	4.36	104.1	72.0	-1.5
2003	5	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	5	3	0	7.3	0.00	1.500	3.68	4.20	95.4	—	0.4

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

145

RBI

.0526

OBP

.1000

SLG

.0526

OPS

.1526

Pitching

G (P)

145

SHO

583

SO (P)

310

BB allowed

223

ERA

4.755

WHIP

1.4408

K/9

4.79

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	H	TB
1998-04-17	SF @ MIL Gameday	3	1	1
1996-06-13	ATH @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0
1997-07-01	MIL @ CIN Gameday	2	0	0
1998-04-03	MIL @ MIA Gameday	2	0	0
1998-04-09	WSH @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2001-04-22	BAL @ TB Gameday	7.0	6	4	4	2	8	0
2001-05-08	BAL @ TB Gameday	8.0	8	4	4	1	7	1
2001-06-17	BAL @ PHI Gameday	7.0	8	3	3	3	7	1
2001-09-01	SEA @ BAL Gameday	5.2	7	5	5	2	7	1
1997-08-19	MIL @ TEX Gameday	5.1	4	2	1	4	7	1

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.