Rafael Soriano

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 230 lb

BornDecember 19, 1979 · San Jose, San Pedro de Macorís, D.R.

MLB debutMay 10, 2002

Final gameJuly 30, 2015

Seasons14 (2002–2015)

Seattle Mariners 2002–2006; Atlanta Braves 2007–2009; Tampa Bay Rays 2010; New York Yankees 2011–2012; Washington Nationals 2013–2014; Chicago Cubs 2015

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

15.3

91.1

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2002	11	4	4	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.0	-100.0	.000	0.3
2003	40	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
2004	6	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2005	7	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
2006	53	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2007	71	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2008	14	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2009	77	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2010	64	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
2011	42	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2012	69	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
2013	68	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2014	64	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2015	6	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2002	10	8	0	3	1	45	24	16	32	8	47.3	4.56	1.289	6.08	4.92	115.9	93.0	0.3
2003	40	0	3	0	1	30	9	12	68	2	53.0	1.53	.792	11.55	1.87	43.1	283.6	2.1
2004	6	0	0	3	0	9	5	3	3	0	3.3	13.50	3.600	8.10	4.06	87.6	34.3	-0.3
2005	7	0	0	0	0	6	2	1	9	0	7.3	2.45	.955	11.05	1.42	33.8	170.7	0.2
2006	53	0	1	2	2	44	15	21	65	6	60.0	2.25	1.083	9.75	3.47	78.1	197.6	2.0
2007	71	0	3	3	9	47	24	15	70	12	72.0	3.00	.861	8.75	4.11	93.6	146.3	1.8
2008	14	0	0	1	3	7	4	9	16	1	14.0	2.57	1.143	10.29	3.89	91.9	164.6	0.4
2009	77	0	1	6	27	53	25	27	102	6	75.7	2.97	1.057	12.13	2.50	59.8	140.7	1.8
2010	64	0	3	2	45	36	12	14	57	4	62.3	1.73	.802	8.23	2.77	70.6	226.8	2.2
2011	42	0	2	3	2	33	18	18	36	4	39.3	4.12	1.297	8.24	4.00	94.8	102.5	0.4
2012	69	0	2	1	42	55	17	24	69	6	67.7	2.26	1.167	9.18	3.27	78.3	184.6	2.2
2013	68	0	3	3	43	65	23	17	51	7	66.7	3.11	1.230	6.89	3.62	95.6	121.9	1.2
2014	64	0	4	1	32	51	22	19	59	4	62.0	3.19	1.129	8.56	3.05	82.5	115.9	1.0
2015	6	0	2	0	0	8	4	1	4	2	5.7	6.35	1.588	6.35	6.87	181.1	59.7	-0.1

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

592

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

591

256th-most career G (P)

207

52nd-most career SV

SHO

636

SO (P)

641

BB allowed

197

ERA

2.885

WHIP

1.0781

K/9

9.07

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
2002-06-15	SEA @ SD Gameday	2
2002-06-20	SEA @ CIN Gameday	0
2002-06-22	SEA @ HOU Gameday	2
2003-06-22	SEA @ SD Gameday	0
2006-06-20	SEA @ LAD Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2002-06-09	CHC @ SEA Gameday	7.0	7	5	5	1	7	2
2003-07-30	DET @ SEA Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	6	0
2002-06-04	SEA @ ATH Gameday	7.0	2	2	2	2	5	2
2002-05-15	SEA @ TOR Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	5	0
2003-08-03	CWS @ SEA Gameday	2.0	1	1	1	0	5	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× 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.