Russ Ortiz

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornJune 5, 1974 · Van Nuys, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 2, 1998

Final gameApril 17, 2010

Seasons12 (1998–2010)

San Francisco Giants 1998–2002; Atlanta Braves 2003–2004; Arizona Diamondbacks 2005–2006; Baltimore Orioles 2006; San Francisco Giants 2007; Houston Astros 2009; Los Angeles Dodgers 2010

Percentile snapshot

2004 season — qualified pitchers

69.3

79.5

54.5

62.5

SHO

54.5

197

55.7

46.6

112

1.1

143

60.2

47.7

204.7

65.9

ERA

4.13

51.1

WHIP

1.510

12.5

K/9

6.29

56.8

FIP

4.70

27.3

FIP-

109.4

26.1

ERA+

104.0

sWAR

2.2

44.3

of 89 qualified 2004 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.3

13.4

sWAR

13.9

90.3

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1998	22	32	25	3	7	0	1	2	2	9	.280	.333	.400	.733	98.7	97.1	.331	0.2
1999	33	81	71	7	14	2	1	8	3	17	.197	.230	.268	.497	26.3	29.9	.226	3.4
2000	33	75	61	7	12	2	0	5	8	16	.197	.290	.230	.519	45.4	39.4	.253	0.8
2001	33	81	67	6	13	6	0	6	5	19	.194	.247	.284	.530	40.5	42.0	.239	4.4
2002	33	84	69	11	17	5	2	9	6	17	.246	.299	.406	.704	85.7	88.3	.312	3.7
2003	35	82	70	6	18	4	2	10	4	17	.257	.303	.400	.703	81.2	82.8	.311	3.9
2004	34	71	59	1	6	2	0	1	1	17	.102	.131	.136	.267	-44.9	-30.4	.125	2.2
2005	24	43	34	1	7	1	0	1	3	9	.206	.270	.235	.506	29.1	32.5	.241	-2.0
2006	26	9	6	1	2	0	0	2	2	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	140.1	132.0	.407	-1.7
2007	12	19	17	0	3	1	0	3	0	4	.176	.176	.235	.412	-8.3	5.3	.181	-0.1
2009	25	31	28	2	5	0	1	2	1	9	.179	.207	.286	.493	21.0	30.2	.221	-0.5
2010	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1998	22	13	4	4	0	0	90	49	46	75	11	88.3	4.99	1.540	7.64	4.69	116.0	80.9	0.2
1999	33	33	18	9	3	0	189	88	125	164	24	207.7	3.81	1.512	7.11	4.89	114.3	112.2	3.4
2000	33	32	14	12	0	0	192	109	112	167	28	195.7	5.01	1.554	7.68	5.03	117.2	85.6	0.8
2001	33	33	17	9	1	1	187	80	91	169	13	218.7	3.29	1.271	6.96	3.48	85.6	123.5	4.4
2002	33	33	14	10	2	0	191	86	94	137	15	214.3	3.61	1.330	5.75	3.88	98.9	108.7	3.7
2003	34	34	21	7	1	1	177	90	102	149	17	212.3	3.81	1.314	6.32	4.11	97.0	111.1	3.9
2004	34	34	15	9	2	1	197	94	112	143	23	204.7	4.13	1.510	6.29	4.70	109.4	104.0	2.2
2005	22	22	5	11	0	0	147	88	65	46	18	115.0	6.89	1.843	3.60	6.03	137.6	63.6	-2.0
2006	26	11	0	8	0	0	86	57	40	44	18	63.0	8.14	2.000	6.29	7.53	164.1	56.4	-1.7
2007	12	8	2	3	0	0	57	30	20	27	4	49.0	5.51	1.571	4.96	4.73	106.1	80.9	-0.1
2009	23	13	3	6	0	0	95	53	48	65	8	85.7	5.57	1.669	6.83	4.57	111.4	73.7	-0.5
2010	6	0	0	1	0	0	10	8	5	6	0	7.0	10.29	2.143	7.71	3.53	90.6	37.9	-0.5

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

316

608

507

104

RBI

135

.2051

OBP

.2573

SLG

.2919

OPS

.5492

Pitching

G (P)

311

266

474th-most career GS

113

SHO

1,661

SO (P)

1,192

395th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

860

188th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.507

WHIP

1.4916

K/9

6.46

290th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1999-06-30	COL @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	1	1	1	0	6
2002-09-13	SF @ SD Gameday	4	3	3	2	0	1	0	5
1999-06-18	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	0	0	4
2002-04-03	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	1	4
2002-09-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-08-30	SF @ PIT Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	3	12	0
2000-06-25	SF @ HOU Gameday	6.1	6	2	2	4	12	1
2000-05-27	CHC @ SF Gameday	6.0	1	0	0	7	11	0
1999-07-05	SF @ SD Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	10	0
1999-07-10	STL @ SF Gameday	8.2	2	2	2	2	10	2

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.