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Mariano Rivera

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 29, 1969 · Panama City, Panamá, Panama

MLB debutMay 23, 1995

Final gameSeptember 26, 2013

Seasons19 (1995–2013)

New York Yankees 1995–2013

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

ERA+

203.5

100

sWAR

44.4

98.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1995	19	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1996	61	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
1997	66	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1998	54	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1999	66	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
2000	66	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2001	71	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
2002	45	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2003	64	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
2004	74	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
2005	71	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.3
2006	63	1	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.6	-100.0	.000	3.0
2007	67	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2008	64	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
2009	66	2	1	1	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	117.1	47.3	.365	2.7
2010	61	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.9	-100.0	.000	2.3
2011	64	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
2012	9	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
2013	64	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1995	19	10	5	3	0	71	41	30	51	11	67.0	5.51	1.507	6.85	5.19	111.5	84.5	0.1
1996	61	0	8	3	5	73	25	34	130	1	107.7	2.09	.994	10.87	1.96	39.6	236.4	4.1
1997	66	0	6	4	43	65	15	20	68	5	71.7	1.88	1.186	8.54	2.99	67.0	237.2	2.7
1998	54	0	3	0	36	48	13	17	36	3	61.3	1.91	1.060	5.28	3.56	80.5	232.2	2.2
1999	66	0	4	3	45	43	14	18	52	2	69.0	1.83	.884	6.78	2.99	63.5	257.7	2.7
2000	66	0	7	4	36	58	24	25	58	4	75.7	2.85	1.097	6.90	3.37	70.4	167.6	2.3
2001	71	0	4	6	50	61	21	12	83	5	80.7	2.34	.905	9.26	2.33	52.6	189.1	2.6
2002	45	0	1	4	28	35	14	11	41	3	46.0	2.74	1.000	8.02	2.97	68.0	159.6	1.3
2003	64	0	5	2	40	61	13	10	63	3	70.7	1.66	1.005	8.02	2.46	55.6	267.1	2.8
2004	74	0	4	2	53	65	17	20	66	3	78.7	1.94	1.081	7.55	2.93	64.1	235.0	3.0
2005	71	0	7	4	43	50	12	18	80	2	78.3	1.38	.868	9.19	2.18	50.9	311.2	3.3
2006	63	0	5	5	34	61	15	11	55	3	75.0	1.80	.960	6.60	2.88	63.0	254.2	3.0
2007	67	0	3	4	30	68	25	12	74	4	71.3	3.15	1.121	9.34	2.72	60.4	143.0	1.8
2008	64	0	6	5	39	41	11	6	77	4	70.7	1.40	.665	9.81	2.06	47.0	312.7	3.0
2009	66	0	3	3	44	48	13	12	72	7	66.3	1.76	.905	9.77	2.93	64.5	257.8	2.7
2010	61	0	3	3	33	39	12	11	45	2	60.0	1.80	.833	6.75	2.78	65.3	236.5	2.3
2011	64	0	1	2	44	47	13	8	60	3	61.3	1.91	.897	8.80	2.23	52.8	221.3	2.2
2012	9	0	1	1	5	6	2	2	8	0	8.3	2.16	.960	8.64	1.85	44.2	193.3	0.3
2013	64	0	6	2	44	58	15	9	54	6	64.0	2.11	1.047	7.59	3.08	77.0	189.4	2.1

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

1,115

RBI

.0000

OBP

.2500

SLG

.0000

OPS

.2500

Pitching

G (P)

1,115

4th-most career G (P)

652

Most career SV of all time

SHO

1,284

SO (P)

1,173

411th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

286

ERA

2.209

13th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0003

4th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.22

85th-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	RBI	BB
2009-06-28	NYY @ NYM Gameday	0	1	1
1996-10-22	NYY @ ATL Gameday	1	0	0
1996-10-23	NYY @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0
1997-06-15	NYY @ MIA Gameday	0	0	0
1997-06-15	NYY @ MIA Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1995-07-04	NYY @ CWS Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	4	11	0
1996-09-06	TOR @ NYY Gameday	3.0	3	2	2	1	6	0
1995-07-16	MIN @ NYY Gameday	6.0	6	1	1	1	5	0
1995-08-25	NYY @ SEA Gameday	5.1	2	1	1	2	5	1
1995-09-05	SEA @ NYY Gameday	4.1	7	5	5	3	5	2

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

Hall of Fame, 2019 (BBWAA)

1× World Series MVP1× ALCS MVP1× All-Star Game MVP13× 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.