Merkin Valdez
San Francisco Giants 2004; San Francisco Giants 2008–2009; Toronto Blue Jays 2010; Texas Rangers 2011
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 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 | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2008 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 2009 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1.7 | 27.00 | 4.200 | 10.80 | 13.75 | 318.1 | 16.0 | -0.4 |
| 2008 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 16.0 | 1.69 | 1.313 | 7.31 | 3.98 | 91.6 | 257.6 | 0.6 |
| 2009 | 48 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 31 | 28 | 38 | 5 | 49.3 | 5.66 | 1.723 | 6.93 | 4.54 | 107.5 | 74.6 | -0.3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 20.25 | 3.750 | 0.00 | 9.80 | 233.5 | 20.7 | -0.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4.3 | 6.23 | 1.846 | 12.46 | 6.98 | 158.4 | 70.8 | 0.0 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-08-01 | STL @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004-08-05 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008-03-31 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008-04-02 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008-04-05 | SF @ MIL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-04-02 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2009-08-27 | AZ @ SF Gameday | 1.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2009-07-12 | SD @ SF Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 2009-06-15 | LAA @ SF Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2009-04-16 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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.