MLB / Players

Jose Rijo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornMay 13, 1965 · San Cristobal, San Cristóbal, D.R.

MLB debutApril 5, 1984

Final gameSeptember 28, 2002

Seasons14 (1984–2002)

New York Yankees 1984; Oakland Athletics 1985–1987; Cincinnati Reds 1988–1995; Cincinnati Reds 2001–2002

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified pitchers

100

48.9

65.9

44.3

SHO

177

76.1

44.3

171

97.7

44.3

172.3

88.6

ERA

3.08

89.8

WHIP

1.329

54.5

K/9

8.93

97.7

FIP

3.26

FIP-

78.3

89.8

ERA+

135.2

85.2

sWAR

3.9

87.5

of 89 qualified 1994 pitchers (min 115 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

120.4

89.9

sWAR

34.6

97.2

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1984	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1985	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1986	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1987	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
1988	49	41	37	2	2	0	1	1	0	14	0	0	.054	.054	.135	.189	-72.5	-48.0	.083	3.8
1989	19	40	38	0	8	1	0	1	1	11	1	0	.211	.231	.237	.468	26.5	33.0	.220	2.2
1990	29	75	62	3	10	1	0	2	2	10	1	0	.161	.188	.177	.365	-10.4	-0.3	.174	4.9
1991	31	78	67	7	14	0	0	5	2	13	0	1	.209	.232	.209	.441	16.9	23.8	.209	5.4
1992	33	78	72	3	14	2	0	6	0	18	0	0	.194	.194	.222	.417	0.8	16.5	.192	5.0
1993	36	97	82	5	22	4	1	8	3	18	0	0	.268	.294	.354	.648	72.6	73.5	.294	7.8
1994	26	59	49	4	10	4	0	3	0	7	0	0	.204	.204	.286	.490	18.1	27.1	.215	3.9
1995	14	24	22	1	3	1	0	3	0	3	0	0	.136	.136	.182	.318	-29.6	-16.3	.141	0.6
2001	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
2002	31	19	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-55.2	-34.1	.114	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1984	24	5	2	8	2	0	0	74	33	33	47	5	62.3	4.76	1.717	6.79	3.92	101.9	80.7	0.0
1985	12	9	6	4	0	0	0	57	25	28	65	6	63.7	3.53	1.335	9.19	3.29	83.9	110.9	0.9
1986	39	26	9	11	1	4	0	172	100	108	176	24	193.7	4.65	1.446	8.18	4.32	109.7	84.8	0.4
1987	21	14	2	7	0	1	0	106	54	41	67	10	82.3	5.90	1.785	7.32	4.39	104.4	71.3	-0.7
1988	49	19	13	8	0	0	0	120	43	63	160	7	162.0	2.39	1.130	8.89	2.52	70.6	149.3	3.8
1989	19	19	7	6	0	1	1	101	35	48	86	6	111.0	2.84	1.342	6.97	3.17	88.4	126.2	2.2
1990	29	29	14	8	0	7	1	151	59	78	152	10	197.0	2.70	1.162	6.94	3.14	80.1	145.6	4.9
1991	30	30	15	6	0	3	1	165	57	55	172	8	204.3	2.51	1.077	7.58	2.47	65.2	150.8	5.4
1992	33	33	15	10	0	2	0	185	60	44	171	15	211.0	2.56	1.085	7.29	2.75	76.1	141.0	5.0
1993	36	36	14	9	0	2	1	218	71	62	227	19	257.3	2.48	1.088	7.94	2.92	72.4	162.4	7.8
1994	26	26	9	6	0	2	0	177	59	52	171	16	172.3	3.08	1.329	8.93	3.26	78.3	135.2	3.9
1995	14	14	5	4	0	0	0	76	32	22	62	6	69.0	4.17	1.420	8.09	3.36	81.0	99.2	0.6
2001	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	4	9	12	2	17.0	2.12	1.647	6.35	4.71	104.2	213.5	0.6
2002	31	9	5	4	0	0	0	89	44	20	38	13	77.0	5.14	1.416	4.44	4.90	117.5	81.1	-0.2

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

377

511

445

RBI

101

.1910

OBP

.2053

SLG

.2337

OPS

.4390

Pitching

G (P)

376

269

461st-most career GS

116

474th-most career W

SHO

1,880

SO (P)

1,606

197th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

663

447th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.236

278th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2622

395th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.69

125th-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

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
1988-07-19	NYM @ CIN Gameday	2	2	2	0	1	1	5
1993-07-31	SD @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	5
1993-05-17	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	3
1993-09-04	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	4	3
1992-06-27	ATL @ CIN Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1986-04-19	ATH @ SEA Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	4	16	0
1986-04-24	SEA @ ATH Gameday	8.1	2	3	3	5	14	2
1986-07-20	MIL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	12	1
1990-09-17	SF @ CIN Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	12	0
1988-07-23	WSH @ CIN Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	2	12	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.

Honors

1× World Series MVP1× 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.