MLB / Players

Xavier Hernandez

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb
BornAugust 16, 1965 · Port Arthur, TX, USA
MLB debutJune 4, 1989
Final gameSeptember 26, 1998
Seasons10 (1989–1998)

Toronto Blue Jays 1989; Houston Astros 1990–1993; New York Yankees 1994; Cincinnati Reds 1995–1996; Houston Astros 1996; Texas Rangers 1997–1998

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
7.1
83

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
198970000000000000.0
199035331100000100.333.333.333.66786.786.8.3080.0
19913213100000002700.000.167.000.167-34.6-47.6.124-0.3
199277991000000500.000.000.000.000-132.3-100.0.0002.8
199372750000000200.000.000.000.000-118.2-100.0.0002.3
199431000000000000-0.1
199559880000000400.000.000.000.000-122.3-100.0.0000.3
199661320000000100.000.000.000.000-113.5-100.0.0000.2
1997440000000000000.6
1998460000000000001.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19897010000251287222.74.761.4562.784.57119.580.30.0
19903412100060322424862.34.621.3483.475.06136.180.40.0
19913262730066333255663.04.711.5567.863.81108.074.8-0.3
199277091700812642965111.02.111.1087.782.8583.6161.52.8
199372045900752828101696.72.611.0669.402.5966.4149.72.3
19943104460048262137740.05.851.7258.335.35115.479.2-0.1
19955907230095463184890.04.601.4008.403.5285.090.10.3
199661055600774028811378.04.621.3469.354.34108.985.90.2
19974400400051252236749.34.561.4806.574.99104.8104.40.6
19984606610043233041558.03.571.2596.364.5394.4134.41.3

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
464
PA
43
AB
37
R
2
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
2
SO
20
SB
0
BA
.0270
OBP
.0769
SLG
.0270
OPS
.1039

Pitching

G (P)
463
GS
7
W
40
L
35
SV
35
480th-most career SV
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
671
SO (P)
562
BB allowed
266
ERA
3.903
WHIP
1.3219
K/9
7.54

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
1990-07-14PHI @ HOU Gameday111000001
1990-04-10CIN @ HOU Gameday000000000
1990-04-11CIN @ HOU Gameday000000000
1990-04-15LAD @ HOU Gameday000000000
1990-04-18ATL @ HOU Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1991-05-23LAD @ HOU Gameday7.0722470
1991-06-02HOU @ SD Gameday6.0433671
1991-10-06HOU @ ATL Gameday3.0300050
1995-06-11CIN @ HOU Gameday2.2100250
1992-08-29WSH @ HOU Gameday2.1100250

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.