Orel Hershiser

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 16, 1958 · Buffalo, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1983

Final gameJune 26, 2000

Seasons18 (1983–2000)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1983–1994; Cleveland Indians 1995–1997; San Francisco Giants 1998; New York Mets 1999; Los Angeles Dodgers 2000

Percentile snapshot

1999 season — qualified pitchers

28.4

39.8

52.3

SHO

175

88.6

62.5

36.4

95.5

179.0

19.3

ERA

4.58

43.2

WHIP

1.408

51.1

K/9

4.47

10.2

FIP

4.57

45.5

FIP-

104.3

28.4

ERA+

95.8

26.1

sWAR

1.3

of 89 qualified 1999 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

111.6

75.5

sWAR

49.3

98.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1983	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1984	45	62	50	4	10	0	0	2	3	14	0	0	.200	.259	.200	.459	33.4	32.7	.229	4.0
1985	37	91	76	5	15	1	0	4	4	20	1	0	.197	.247	.211	.457	30.6	31.9	.223	6.9
1986	37	82	71	4	17	3	0	8	1	17	0	1	.239	.250	.282	.532	47.2	51.7	.246	1.7
1987	40	102	90	10	19	5	0	7	2	17	2	1	.211	.228	.267	.495	28.3	33.2	.225	5.7
1988	36	105	85	1	11	2	1	6	1	18	0	0	.129	.140	.176	.316	-19.9	-7.6	.146	6.1
1989	35	92	77	4	14	4	1	2	4	25	0	0	.182	.220	.260	.479	34.3	38.8	.225	6.4
1990	4	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.5	-100.0	.000	0.0
1991	21	38	31	6	8	2	0	2	3	8	1	0	.258	.324	.323	.646	89.2	85.2	.306	1.6
1992	35	76	68	6	15	5	0	5	1	10	1	0	.221	.229	.294	.523	38.6	48.5	.238	1.9
1993	34	83	73	11	26	4	0	6	2	5	0	1	.356	.373	.411	.784	118.7	116.0	.357	3.7
1994	22	52	44	4	9	0	0	4	2	10	1	0	.205	.245	.205	.449	20.2	22.9	.212	1.8
1995	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
1996	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.5
1997	32	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	-4.5	-27.3	.184	2.3
1998	34	78	66	7	10	2	0	1	3	16	1	0	.152	.200	.182	.382	-0.3	4.2	.182	1.2
1999	32	68	62	3	9	1	0	3	1	18	1	0	.145	.154	.161	.315	-29.1	-18.2	.142	1.3
2000	10	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.7	-100.0	.000	-2.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1983	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	3	6	5	1	8.0	3.38	1.625	5.63	5.30	147.9	106.1	0.1
1984	45	20	11	8	2	8	4	160	56	50	150	9	189.7	2.66	1.107	7.12	2.68	76.3	132.3	4.0
1985	36	34	19	3	0	9	5	179	54	68	157	8	239.7	2.03	1.031	5.90	2.67	76.8	171.4	6.9
1986	35	35	14	14	0	8	1	213	99	86	153	13	231.3	3.85	1.293	5.95	3.33	95.4	90.7	1.7
1987	37	35	16	16	1	10	1	247	90	74	190	17	264.7	3.06	1.213	6.46	3.21	81.1	129.2	5.7
1988	35	34	23	8	1	15	8	208	67	73	178	18	267.0	2.26	1.052	6.00	3.12	93.9	146.9	6.1
1989	35	33	15	15	0	8	4	226	66	77	178	9	256.7	2.31	1.181	6.24	2.67	78.0	147.6	6.4
1990	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	26	12	4	16	1	25.3	4.26	1.184	5.68	2.65	72.1	86.2	0.0
1991	21	21	7	2	0	0	0	112	43	32	73	3	112.0	3.46	1.286	5.87	2.83	78.5	104.3	1.6
1992	33	33	10	15	0	1	0	209	86	69	130	15	210.7	3.67	1.320	5.55	3.56	102.9	94.3	1.9
1993	33	33	12	14	0	5	1	201	86	72	141	17	215.7	3.59	1.266	5.88	3.79	98.5	107.2	3.7
1994	21	21	6	6	0	1	0	146	57	42	72	15	135.3	3.79	1.389	4.79	4.42	111.0	105.0	1.8
1995	26	26	16	6	0	1	1	151	72	51	111	21	167.3	3.87	1.207	5.97	4.45	94.6	121.5	3.1
1996	33	33	15	9	0	1	0	238	97	58	125	21	206.0	4.24	1.437	5.46	4.38	88.9	116.3	3.5
1997	32	32	14	6	0	1	0	199	97	69	107	26	195.3	4.47	1.372	4.93	5.01	107.5	104.3	2.3
1998	34	34	11	10	0	0	0	200	99	85	126	22	202.0	4.41	1.411	5.61	4.69	116.1	91.6	1.2
1999	32	32	13	12	0	0	0	175	91	77	89	14	179.0	4.58	1.408	4.47	4.57	104.3	95.8	1.3
2000	10	6	1	5	0	0	0	42	36	14	13	5	24.7	13.14	2.270	4.74	7.68	173.0	33.8	-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

521

949

810

163

RBI

182

.2012

OBP

.2300

SLG

.2420

OPS

.4720

Pitching

G (P)

510

422nd-most career G (P)

466

76th-most career GS

204

110th-most career W

150

167th-most career L

SHO

175th-most career SHO

3,130

119th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,014

87th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,007

113th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.482

433rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2606

390th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.79

418th-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	RBI	TB
1988-10-16	ATH @ LAD Gameday	3	1	3	2	1	5
1992-04-24	LAD @ SF Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	4
1985-10-02	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	3
1993-05-21	COL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	3
1993-08-01	LAD @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-06-19	LAD @ HOU Gameday	10.0	7	3	3	3	14	2
1984-07-04	PIT @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	2	11	0
1986-05-16	NYM @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	3	1	2	10	0
1986-07-28	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	3	10	0
1995-06-05	DET @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	10	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× Cy Young Award1× Gold Glove1× NLCS MVP1× World Series MVP1× Silver Slugger1× ALCS MVP3× 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.