MLB / Players

Vicente Palacios

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 165 lb

BornJuly 19, 1963 · Manlio Fabio Altamirano, Veracruz, México

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1987

Final gameMay 11, 2000

Seasons8 (1987–2000)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1987–1988; Pittsburgh Pirates 1990–1992; St. Louis Cardinals 1994–1995; San Diego Padres 2000

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified pitchers

98.9

3.4

95.5

SHO

61.4

104

97.7

77.3

71.6

43.2

44.3

117.7

10.2

ERA

4.44

39.8

WHIP

1.249

77.3

K/9

7.27

76.1

FIP

4.39

48.9

FIP-

105.9

29.5

ERA+

93.5

26.1

sWAR

0.4

19.3

of 89 qualified 1994 pitchers (min 115 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.6

59.5

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	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1987	6	9	9	1	1	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	-57.5	-40.9	.101	0.2
1988	7	9	8	0	0	1	5	.000	.111	.000	.111	-67.9	-65.1	.083	-0.8
1990	7	5	4	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	-20.1	-38.4	.150	0.8
1991	36	19	14	0	1	0	7	.071	.071	.071	.143	-77.2	-59.1	.066	0.6
1992	20	16	14	0	1	0	6	.071	.071	.071	.143	-86.7	-59.2	.066	-0.1
1994	31	36	33	0	0	0	15	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.4	-100.0	.000	0.4
1995	20	7	6	1	1	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	-23.3	-11.3	.152	-0.3
2000	7	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
1987	6	4	2	1	0	0	0	27	14	9	13	1	29.3	4.30	1.227	3.99	3.45	83.7	95.8	0.2
1988	7	3	1	2	0	0	0	28	18	15	15	3	24.3	6.66	1.767	5.55	4.93	144.1	51.4	-0.8
1990	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	0	2	8	0	15.0	0.00	.400	4.80	2.14	58.4	—	0.8
1991	36	7	6	3	3	1	1	69	34	38	64	12	81.7	3.75	1.310	7.05	4.57	126.6	96.3	0.6
1992	20	8	3	2	0	0	0	56	25	27	33	1	53.0	4.25	1.566	5.60	3.30	94.6	82.2	-0.1
1994	31	17	3	8	1	1	1	104	58	43	95	16	117.7	4.44	1.249	7.27	4.39	105.9	93.5	0.4
1995	20	5	2	3	0	0	0	48	26	19	34	7	40.3	5.80	1.661	7.59	5.20	124.7	71.9	-0.3
2000	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	8	5	8	4	10.7	6.75	1.594	6.75	7.84	180.4	64.3	-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

134

101

RBI

.0455

OBP

.0667

SLG

.0455

OPS

.1122

Pitching

G (P)

134

SHO

372

SO (P)

270

BB allowed

158

ERA

4.427

WHIP

1.3602

K/9

6.53

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	TB
1987-10-03	PHI @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	1
1991-05-06	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	0	1	1
1992-04-21	PIT @ WSH Gameday	1	0	1	1
1995-06-11	STL @ ATL Gameday	2	1	1	1
1987-09-04	PIT @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1994-07-19	STL @ HOU Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	1	8	0
1994-06-25	STL @ CHC Gameday	7.0	3	3	3	1	8	1
1994-05-08	NYM @ STL Gameday	6.2	3	2	2	4	8	0
1994-06-14	MIA @ STL Gameday	6.0	6	5	5	0	7	0
1994-06-04	SF @ STL Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	2	6	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.