Orlando Mercado
Seattle Mariners 1982–1984; Texas Rangers 1986; Detroit Tigers 1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1987; Oakland Athletics 1988; Minnesota Twins 1989; Montreal Expos 1990; New York Mets 1990
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 9 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .118 | .294 | .412 | -8.0 | 7.5 | .174 | -0.1 |
| 1983 | 66 | 197 | 178 | 10 | 35 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 27 | 2 | 2 | .197 | .256 | .298 | .554 | 48.1 | 50.3 | .256 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 30 | 84 | 78 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .218 | .265 | .282 | .547 | 51.1 | 52.6 | .255 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 46 | 112 | 102 | 7 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .235 | .279 | .294 | .573 | 52.9 | 55.3 | .263 | 0.1 |
| 1987 | 17 | 30 | 27 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .259 | .559 | 58.6 | 56.1 | .267 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 16 | 27 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .250 | .472 | 37.6 | 35.4 | .227 | 0.0 |
| 1989 | 19 | 42 | 38 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .105 | .190 | .105 | .296 | -20.0 | -16.3 | .159 | -0.3 |
| 1990 | 50 | 108 | 98 | 10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .287 | .316 | .603 | 60.9 | 67.5 | .272 | 0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-06-09 | PIT @ NYM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1986-09-06 | KC @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1990-07-05 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1987-10-04 | LAD @ SD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1990-06-13 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
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.