Mark Portugal

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 30, 1962 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 14, 1985

Final gameSeptember 22, 1999

Seasons15 (1985–1999)

Minnesota Twins 1985–1988; Houston Astros 1989–1993; San Francisco Giants 1994; Cincinnati Reds 1995; San Francisco Giants 1995; Cincinnati Reds 1996; Philadelphia Phillies 1997–1998; Boston Red Sox 1999

Percentile snapshot

1998 season — qualified pitchers

4.2

24.2

97.9

61.1

SHO

186

75.8

70.5

94.7

104

11.6

32.6

166.3

3.2

ERA

4.44

31.6

WHIP

1.311

57.9

K/9

5.63

24.2

FIP

4.50

38.9

FIP-

104.1

36.8

ERA+

97.4

32.6

sWAR

1.9

35.8

of 96 qualified 1998 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.9

sWAR

20.1

93.6

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1985	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1986	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1987	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.1
1988	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1989	20	38	34	3	7	3	0	1	2	1	6	.206	.229	.382	.611	71.0	74.9	.276	2.2
1990	32	72	66	2	9	0	0	0	5	1	8	.136	.149	.136	.286	-31.2	-19.6	.135	2.0
1991	33	58	46	4	9	1	0	0	3	4	4	.196	.269	.217	.487	44.8	42.2	.239	0.0
1992	18	34	28	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	12	.107	.107	.107	.214	-60.2	-38.0	.100	1.8
1993	33	80	65	4	15	0	0	1	8	3	13	.231	.257	.277	.534	42.8	46.2	.244	5.1
1994	21	54	48	4	17	5	1	0	8	1	8	.354	.360	.500	.860	126.6	126.9	.375	2.2
1995	31	71	58	5	8	5	0	0	5	5	13	.138	.206	.224	.430	12.3	14.9	.204	2.1
1996	28	56	48	4	8	1	0	0	1	1	11	.167	.184	.188	.371	-9.0	-1.4	.171	2.0
1997	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.2	-100.0	.000	0.0
1998	26	58	50	6	13	5	0	0	4	4	10	.260	.315	.360	.675	76.4	75.9	.307	1.9
1999	31	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.4	-100.0	.000	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1985	6	4	1	3	0	0	0	24	15	14	12	3	24.3	5.55	1.562	4.44	5.08	116.7	78.5	-0.1
1986	27	15	6	10	1	3	0	112	54	50	67	10	112.7	4.31	1.438	5.35	4.12	96.3	99.1	1.1
1987	13	7	1	3	0	0	0	58	38	24	28	13	44.0	7.77	1.864	5.73	7.15	155.8	59.0	-1.1
1988	26	0	3	3	3	0	0	60	29	17	31	11	57.7	4.53	1.335	4.84	5.16	127.5	89.5	0.3
1989	20	15	7	1	0	2	1	91	33	37	86	7	108.0	2.75	1.185	7.17	2.99	88.1	123.5	2.2
1990	32	32	11	10	0	1	0	187	79	67	136	21	196.7	3.62	1.292	6.22	3.90	104.9	102.7	2.0
1991	32	27	10	12	1	1	0	163	84	59	120	19	168.3	4.49	1.319	6.42	3.92	111.2	78.5	0.0
1992	18	16	6	3	0	1	1	76	30	41	62	7	101.3	2.66	1.155	5.51	3.69	108.5	127.8	1.8
1993	33	33	18	4	0	1	1	194	64	77	131	10	208.0	2.77	1.303	5.67	3.51	89.9	141.0	5.1
1994	21	21	10	8	0	1	0	135	60	45	87	17	137.3	3.93	1.311	5.70	4.52	112.1	102.6	2.2
1995	31	31	11	10	0	1	0	185	81	56	96	17	181.7	4.01	1.327	4.76	4.22	102.4	102.6	2.1
1996	27	26	8	9	0	1	1	146	69	42	93	20	156.0	3.98	1.205	5.37	4.41	104.4	106.2	2.0
1997	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	17	7	5	2	0	13.7	4.61	1.610	1.32	3.88	91.6	91.8	0.0
1998	26	26	10	5	0	3	0	186	82	32	104	26	166.3	4.44	1.311	5.63	4.50	104.1	97.4	1.9
1999	31	27	7	12	0	1	0	179	92	41	79	28	150.3	5.51	1.463	4.73	5.47	111.8	88.9	0.5

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

348

529

450

RBI

.1978

OBP

.2316

SLG

.2600

OPS

.4916

Pitching

G (P)

346

283

409th-most career GS

109

SHO

1,826

SO (P)

1,134

453rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

607

ERA

4.026

WHIP

1.3251

K/9

5.59

479th-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1989-09-08	SF @ HOU Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	5
1994-06-05	SF @ STL Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	1	4
1994-05-02	SF @ NYM Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	2	4
1993-06-16	SD @ HOU Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1998-09-23	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1986-09-21	MIN @ TEX Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	2	13	0
1996-04-27	PHI @ CIN Gameday	8.0	3	3	3	3	12	1
1989-09-17	CIN @ HOU Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	9	0
1995-07-19	MIA @ SF Gameday	7.2	7	2	2	2	9	1
1990-08-07	SF @ HOU Gameday	7.1	5	0	0	1	9	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× Silver Slugger

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.