Steve Ontiveros

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 5, 1961 · Tularosa, NM, USA

MLB debutJune 14, 1985

Final gameOctober 1, 2000

Seasons10 (1985–2000)

Oakland Athletics 1985–1988; Philadelphia Phillies 1989–1990; Seattle Mariners 1993; Oakland Athletics 1994–1995; Boston Red Sox 2000

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified pitchers

95.5

10.2

44.3

SHO

100

90.9

1.1

97.7

115.3

1.1

ERA

2.65

98.9

WHIP

1.032

97.7

K/9

4.37

9.1

FIP

3.85

77.3

FIP-

85.2

77.3

ERA+

170.1

97.7

sWAR

3.3

80.7

of 89 qualified 1994 pitchers (min 114 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.3

87.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1985	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1986	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1987	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
1988	13	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1989	6	13	12	2	1	1	3	1	2	.083	.154	.167	.321	-14.9	-8.5	.160	0.2
1990	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1993	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1994	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.3
1995	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
2000	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1985	39	0	1	3	8	0	0	45	16	19	36	4	74.7	1.93	.857	4.34	3.32	84.6	203.3	2.4
1986	46	0	2	2	10	0	0	72	38	25	54	10	72.7	4.71	1.335	6.69	4.17	105.8	83.7	0.1
1987	35	22	10	8	1	2	1	141	67	50	97	19	150.7	4.00	1.268	5.79	4.30	102.2	105.1	1.8
1988	10	10	3	4	0	0	0	57	28	21	30	4	54.7	4.61	1.427	4.94	3.83	100.5	82.6	0.0
1989	6	5	2	1	0	0	0	34	13	15	12	2	30.7	3.82	1.598	3.52	4.19	118.4	92.8	0.2
1990	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	3	3	6	1	10.0	2.70	1.200	5.40	3.81	99.9	141.3	0.2
1993	14	0	0	2	0	0	0	18	2	6	13	0	18.0	1.00	1.333	6.50	2.56	58.6	436.4	0.8
1994	27	13	6	4	0	2	0	93	34	26	56	7	115.3	2.65	1.032	4.37	3.85	85.2	170.1	3.3
1995	22	22	9	6	0	2	1	144	63	38	77	12	129.7	4.37	1.404	5.34	4.13	90.8	104.0	1.5
2000	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	9	6	4	1	1	5.3	10.13	2.438	1.69	7.54	150.0	49.6	-0.2

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

211

RBI

.0833

OBP

.1538

SLG

.1667

OPS

.3205

Pitching

G (P)

207

SHO

662

SO (P)

382

BB allowed

207

ERA

3.673

WHIP

1.2529

K/9

5.20

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
1989-04-11	WSH @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	1	3	2
1986-07-23	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0
1988-04-09	ATH @ LAA Gameday	0	1	0	0	0	0
1988-05-21	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0
1988-06-04	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1995-09-24	ATH @ SEA Gameday	6.2	5	5	5	4	9	1
1987-08-21	NYY @ ATH Gameday	8.2	8	4	4	1	8	3
1994-08-05	TEX @ ATH Gameday	8.0	8	4	4	2	8	2
1988-05-31	NYY @ ATH Gameday	7.1	7	4	4	1	8	1
1995-05-27	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	2	7	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× 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.