Orlando Hernandez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornOctober 11, 1965 · Villa Clara, Cuba

MLB debutJune 3, 1998

Final gameSeptember 30, 2007

Seasons9 (1998–2007)

New York Yankees 1998–2002; New York Yankees 2004; Chicago White Sox 2005; Arizona Diamondbacks 2006; New York Mets 2006–2007

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified pitchers

3.6

14.5

38.6

34.9

SHO

155

98.8

79.5

48.2

164

66.3

55.4

162.3

ERA

4.66

31.3

WHIP

1.331

51.8

K/9

9.09

97.6

FIP

4.20

54.2

FIP-

94.2

51.8

ERA+

95.6

28.9

sWAR

1.3

24.1

of 84 qualified 2006 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.5

71.1

sWAR

18.4

92.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1998	21	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.1	-100.0	.000	3.3
1999	33	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	73.3	74.6	.300	3.4
2000	29	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.5	-100.0	.000	2.4
2001	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2002	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
2004	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2005	24	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	74.5	76.4	.298	0.4
2006	29	54	46	4	8	1	1	2	1	10	1	.174	.191	.239	.431	1.4	10.6	.192	1.3
2007	28	54	48	1	8	2	0	3	0	18	2	.167	.167	.208	.375	-15.0	-2.0	.165	2.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1998	21	21	12	4	0	3	1	113	49	52	131	11	141.0	3.13	1.170	8.36	3.61	81.5	141.6	3.3
1999	33	33	17	9	0	2	1	187	98	87	157	24	214.3	4.12	1.278	6.59	4.52	96.2	114.3	3.4
2000	29	29	12	13	0	3	0	186	98	51	141	34	195.7	4.51	1.211	6.49	4.92	102.8	106.1	2.4
2001	17	16	4	7	0	0	0	90	51	42	77	19	94.7	4.85	1.394	7.32	5.57	125.7	91.4	0.5
2002	24	22	8	5	1	0	0	131	59	36	113	17	146.0	3.64	1.144	6.97	3.93	89.9	120.2	2.6
2004	15	15	8	2	0	0	0	73	31	36	84	9	84.7	3.30	1.287	8.93	4.01	87.7	138.7	2.0
2005	24	22	9	9	1	0	0	137	73	50	91	18	128.3	5.12	1.457	6.38	4.91	109.1	87.9	0.4
2006	29	29	11	11	0	1	0	155	84	61	164	22	162.3	4.66	1.331	9.09	4.20	94.2	95.6	1.3
2007	27	24	9	5	0	0	0	109	61	64	128	23	147.7	3.72	1.172	7.80	4.87	113.1	115.8	2.4

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

220

132

116

RBI

.1552

OBP

.1624

SLG

.1983

OPS

.3607

Pitching

G (P)

219

211

SHO

1,315

SO (P)

1,086

493rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

479

ERA

4.135

WHIP

1.2627

398th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.43

151st-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	RBI	TB
2007-04-03	NYM @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	2	3
2006-08-04	PHI @ NYM Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	3
2006-04-21	AZ @ LAD Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	2
2007-04-24	COL @ NYM Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	2
2006-07-29	NYM @ ATL Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	2	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1998-08-13	TEX @ NYY Gameday	8.1	2	0	0	5	13	0
1999-08-28	SEA @ NYY Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	2	13	1
2000-10-24	NYY @ NYM Gameday	7.1	9	4	4	3	12	1
2002-04-23	NYY @ ATH Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	0	11	1
2000-08-26	NYY @ ATH Gameday	7.0	5	3	3	3	11	1

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× ALCS MVP

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