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Kelvin Herrera

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 220 lb

BornDecember 31, 1989 · Tenares, Hermanas Mirabal, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 21, 2011

Final gameJuly 26, 2020

Seasons10 (2011–2020)

Kansas City Royals 2011–2018; Washington Nationals 2018; Chicago White Sox 2019–2020

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

11.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2011	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2012	76	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
2013	59	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2014	70	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
2015	72	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2016	72	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2017	64	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2018	48	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2019	57	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
2020	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2011	2	0	1	0	2	3	0	0	1	2.0	13.50	1.000	0.00	11.06	270.6	30.3	-0.2
2012	76	4	3	3	79	22	21	77	4	84.3	2.35	1.186	8.22	2.65	64.4	175.5	2.6
2013	59	5	7	2	48	25	21	74	9	58.3	3.86	1.183	11.42	3.73	92.0	105.0	0.7
2014	70	4	3	0	54	11	26	59	0	70.0	1.41	1.143	7.59	2.72	70.3	273.4	2.8
2015	72	4	3	0	52	21	26	64	5	69.7	2.71	1.120	8.27	3.41	82.9	151.4	1.8
2016	72	2	6	12	57	22	12	86	6	72.0	2.75	.958	10.75	2.43	57.1	154.4	2.0
2017	64	3	3	26	60	28	20	56	9	59.3	4.25	1.348	8.49	4.29	96.7	104.4	0.7
2018	48	2	3	17	43	12	10	38	6	44.3	2.44	1.195	7.71	3.96	93.7	174.2	1.3
2019	57	3	3	1	60	35	23	53	8	51.3	6.14	1.617	9.29	4.62	101.5	74.1	-0.4
2020	2	0	0	0	3	4	1	3	2	2.3	15.43	1.714	11.57	13.02	295.4	28.6	-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

522

RBI

Pitching

G (P)

522

393rd-most career G (P)

298th-most career SV

SHO

514

SO (P)

510

BB allowed

160

ERA

3.206

WHIP

1.2031

K/9

8.94

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2012-06-09	KC @ PIT Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2012-06-16	KC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2012-06-17	KC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2012-06-20	KC @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2013-04-06	KC @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	BB	SO
2014-10-29	SF @ KC Gameday	2.2	3	0	4
2012-06-20	KC @ HOU Gameday	1.1	0	0	4
2019-09-25	CLE @ CWS Gameday	1.1	0	0	4
2013-08-03	KC @ NYM Gameday	3.0	0	1	3
2015-11-01	KC @ NYM Gameday	3.0	1	0	3

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

2× 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.