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Jose Valverde

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 265 lb

BornMarch 24, 1978 · San Pedro de Macoris, San Pedro de Macorís, D.R.

MLB debutJune 1, 2003

Final gameMay 26, 2014

Seasons12 (2003–2014)

Arizona Diamondbacks 2003–2007; Houston Astros 2008–2009; Detroit Tigers 2010–2013; New York Mets 2014

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

13.6

90.1

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2003	54	1	1	1	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	717.2	638.9	1.271	1.9
2004	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2005	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
2006	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2007	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2008	74	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.2	-100.0	.000	1.4
2009	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2010	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
2011	75	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2012	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2013	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2014	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2003	54	2	1	10	24	12	26	71	4	50.3	2.15	.993	12.70	2.86	63.3	210.3	1.9
2004	29	1	2	8	23	14	17	38	7	29.7	4.25	1.348	11.53	5.28	117.6	105.8	0.4
2005	61	3	4	15	51	18	20	75	5	66.3	2.44	1.070	10.18	2.71	61.8	179.3	2.1
2006	44	2	3	18	50	32	22	69	6	49.3	5.84	1.459	12.59	3.35	71.7	80.1	-0.1
2007	65	1	4	47	46	19	26	78	7	64.3	2.66	1.119	10.91	3.52	75.7	175.0	2.0
2008	74	6	3	44	62	27	23	83	10	72.0	3.38	1.181	10.38	3.65	86.4	125.1	1.4
2009	52	4	2	25	40	14	21	56	5	54.0	2.33	1.130	9.33	3.46	84.4	175.9	1.6
2010	60	2	4	26	41	21	32	63	5	63.0	3.00	1.159	9.00	3.75	90.0	138.7	1.5
2011	75	2	4	49	52	18	34	69	5	72.3	2.24	1.189	8.59	3.59	86.9	184.3	2.3
2012	71	3	4	35	59	29	27	48	3	69.0	3.78	1.246	6.26	3.57	84.8	111.2	1.0
2013	20	0	1	9	18	12	6	19	6	19.3	5.59	1.241	8.84	6.39	156.1	73.2	-0.1
2014	21	1	1	2	24	13	10	23	4	20.7	5.66	1.645	10.02	4.84	139.4	61.4	-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

626

RBI

.5000

OBP

.5000

SLG

1.0000

OPS

1.5000

Pitching

G (P)

626

200th-most career G (P)

288

33rd-most career SV

SHO

630

SO (P)

692

BB allowed

264

ERA

3.270

WHIP

1.1962

K/9

9.88

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	TB
2003-09-20	AZ @ MIL Gameday	1	1	1	1	2
2003-06-01	AZ @ SD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2003-06-04	CWS @ AZ Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2003-06-07	CLE @ AZ Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2003-06-18	AZ @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
2005-07-27	AZ @ MIL Gameday	2.0	2	0	0	0	5
2006-06-20	AZ @ TB Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	0	5
2010-09-02	DET @ MIN Gameday	3.0	2	1	0	1	4
2005-09-06	AZ @ PIT Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	1	4
2006-08-25	LAD @ AZ Gameday	2.0	2	1	1	0	4

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

3× 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.