MLB / Players

Tony Fossas

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb
BornSeptember 23, 1957 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba
MLB debutMay 15, 1988
Final gameMay 14, 1999
Seasons12 (1988–1999)

Texas Rangers 1988; Milwaukee Brewers 1989–1990; Boston Red Sox 1991–1994; St. Louis Cardinals 1995–1997; Chicago Cubs 1998; Seattle Mariners 1998; Texas Rangers 1998; New York Yankees 1999

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
5.7
81

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
198850000000000000.0
1989510000000000000.8
199032000000000000-0.6
1991640000000000001.1
1992600000000000000.9
1993710000000000000.1
1994440000000000000.4
1995580000000000001.5
199665110000000000.000.000.000.000-118.7-100.0.0001.2
1997710000000000000.7
199841000000000000-0.1
19995000000000000-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
198850000001132005.74.762.2940.003.8895.485.40.0
19895102210057242242361.03.541.2956.203.2484.3108.70.8
19903202300044211024529.36.441.8417.364.41113.060.6-0.6
19916403210049222829357.03.471.3514.584.2199.0122.41.1
1992600122003181419129.72.431.5175.763.4683.6170.80.9
19937101100038231539440.05.181.3258.783.6379.688.10.1
19944402010035181531634.04.761.4718.215.08102.3104.20.4
1995580300002861040136.71.471.0369.822.1451.3283.11.5
19966500420043142136747.02.681.3626.894.84116.0155.61.2
19977102700062222641751.73.831.7037.144.81115.5108.80.7
19984101300030151623122.75.962.0299.133.8683.178.3-0.1
19995000000641011.036.007.0000.0019.20408.213.1-0.3

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

G
567
PA
1
AB
1
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.0000
OBP
.0000
SLG
.0000
OPS
.0000

Pitching

G (P)
567
296th-most career G (P)
GS
0
W
17
L
24
SV
7
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
416
SO (P)
324
BB allowed
180
ERA
3.897
WHIP
1.4771
K/9
7.02

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1989-06-06MIL @ TOR Gameday000000000
1989-07-24DET @ MIL Gameday000000000
1995-04-27PHI @ STL Gameday000000000
1995-04-28STL @ NYM Gameday000000000
1995-05-03PIT @ STL Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1989-06-23CWS @ MIL Gameday5.0200080
1989-06-04NYY @ MIL Gameday3.1343341
1993-09-28DET @ BOS Gameday3.0211230
1989-07-09BAL @ MIL Gameday2.0311030
1994-04-18CWS @ BOS Gameday1.2100130

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.