Willie Hernandez
Chicago Cubs 1977–1983; Philadelphia Phillies 1983; Detroit Tigers 1984–1989
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
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 67 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .063 | .063 | .125 | -97.1 | -67.8 | .057 | 2.5 |
| 1978 | 55 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -140.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.7 |
| 1979 | 52 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .375 | .625 | 54.6 | 61.9 | .280 | -0.1 |
| 1980 | 53 | 20 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .211 | .263 | .474 | 14.6 | 27.4 | .217 | 0.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1982 | 75 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 0.7 | -25.0 | .188 | 1.4 |
| 1983 | 74 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 | 128.6 | 123.6 | .373 | 1.8 |
| 1984 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4.6 |
| 1985 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -119.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
| 1988 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.3 |
| 1989 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 67 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 37 | 28 | 78 | 11 | 110.0 | 3.03 | 1.109 | 6.38 | 3.41 | 79.2 | 142.0 | 2.5 |
| 1978 | 54 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 25 | 35 | 38 | 6 | 59.7 | 3.77 | 1.542 | 5.73 | 4.47 | 113.0 | 104.8 | 0.7 |
| 1979 | 51 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 44 | 39 | 53 | 8 | 79.0 | 5.01 | 1.570 | 6.04 | 4.30 | 105.8 | 81.1 | -0.1 |
| 1980 | 53 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 115 | 53 | 45 | 75 | 8 | 108.3 | 4.40 | 1.477 | 6.23 | 3.62 | 93.6 | 87.9 | 0.4 |
| 1981 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 13.7 | 3.95 | 1.610 | 8.56 | 2.52 | 69.0 | 92.5 | 0.1 |
| 1982 | 75 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 25 | 24 | 54 | 3 | 75.0 | 3.00 | 1.307 | 6.48 | 2.83 | 76.2 | 123.7 | 1.4 |
| 1983 | 74 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 42 | 32 | 93 | 9 | 115.3 | 3.28 | 1.223 | 7.26 | 2.93 | 81.2 | 110.6 | 1.8 |
| 1984 | 80 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 30 | 36 | 112 | 6 | 140.3 | 1.92 | .941 | 7.18 | 2.56 | 65.2 | 204.3 | 4.6 |
| 1985 | 74 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 32 | 14 | 76 | 13 | 106.7 | 2.70 | .900 | 6.41 | 3.32 | 81.4 | 151.2 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 64 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 35 | 21 | 77 | 13 | 88.7 | 3.55 | 1.218 | 7.82 | 3.84 | 93.0 | 116.3 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 45 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 8 | 49.0 | 3.67 | 1.490 | 5.51 | 5.00 | 116.5 | 116.7 | 0.8 |
| 1988 | 63 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 23 | 31 | 59 | 8 | 67.7 | 3.06 | 1.197 | 7.85 | 4.17 | 108.1 | 126.0 | 1.3 |
| 1989 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 20 | 16 | 30 | 4 | 31.3 | 5.74 | 1.660 | 8.62 | 4.22 | 110.0 | 66.9 | -0.4 |
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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-05-02 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1979-09-08 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1983-07-21 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1977-07-30 | CHC @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-05-10 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-08-16 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1988-06-01 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983-07-03 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1980-08-07 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 5.1 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1980-05-06 | SD @ CHC Gameday | 4.0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.