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Career Summary

Years	G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	WARP
17	519	3189	178	177	1	4.44	29.4

Birth Date	2-20-1975
Height	6' 2"
Weight	245 lbs

Age	49 years, 1 months, 30 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

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YEAR	Team	Lg	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
1996	FLO	MLB	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	3	2	2	0	97	9.0	6.0	0.0	6.0	0%	.333	1.67	3.75	0.00	82	2.67	52.7	0.1
1997	FLO	MLB	17	17	96.3	9	3	0	81	38	72	5	95	7.6	3.6	0.5	6.7	0%	.265	1.24	3.53	3.18	99	4.16	86.5	1.8
1998	FLO	MLB	33	33	234.3	10	12	0	265	104	162	37	96	10.2	4.0	1.4	6.2	0%	.312	1.57	5.14	4.72	109	5.92	122.7	-0.1
1999	FLO	0	20	20	136.0	5	9	0	161	55	97	17	97	10.7	3.6	1.1	6.4	0%	.327	1.59	4.53	4.76	94	4.86	94.5	2.0
1999	SFN	0	10	10	63.7	3	3	0	66	21	47	6	96	9.3	3.0	0.8	6.6	0%	.300	1.37	3.81	4.38	92	4.52	87.9	1.2
2000	SFN	MLB	33	33	240.0	17	11	0	254	73	165	22	109	9.5	2.7	0.8	6.2	0%	.303	1.36	3.83	3.75	87	3.94	75.8	5.9
2001	SFN	MLB	34	34	226.7	13	15	0	266	85	138	24	96	10.6	3.4	1.0	5.5	0%	.319	1.55	4.32	5.24	100	4.67	96.8	2.9
2002	SFN	MLB	33	33	216.0	12	16	0	233	71	134	19	97	9.7	3.0	0.8	5.6	0%	.309	1.41	3.81	4.38	92	3.67	78.7	4.8
2003	MON	MLB	33	33	233.3	15	10	0	225	57	178	27	102	8.7	2.2	1.0	6.9	0%	.285	1.21	3.81	3.20	89	3.48	73.0	5.9
2004	MON	MLB	35	35	255.0	11	15	0	234	83	186	26	92	8.3	2.9	0.9	6.6	0%	.278	1.24	3.90	3.60	93	3.71	76.5	5.8
2005	WAS	MLB	35	35	246.3	15	10	0	268	84	147	25	89	9.8	3.1	0.9	5.4	0%	.305	1.43	4.29	3.98	106	4.86	104.5	1.8
2006	ARI	0	10	10	69.3	4	5	0	70	26	39	7	97	9.1	3.4	0.9	5.1	0%	.281	1.38	4.50	3.76	109	5.76	117.3	0.1
2006	WAS	0	24	24	146.7	9	8	0	176	52	89	22	90	10.8	3.2	1.4	5.5	0%	.310	1.55	4.94	5.34	114	5.73	116.8	0.2
2007	ARI	MLB	33	33	204.3	11	11	0	247	79	90	34	103	10.9	3.5	1.5	4.0	0%	.303	1.60	5.70	4.93	126	7.35	152.0	-3.6
2008	COL	0	8	8	40.3	3	3	0	58	14	13	7	103	12.9	3.1	1.6	2.9	0%	.342	1.79	5.83	8.03	104	6.10	130.0	-0.3
2008	MIN	0	23	23	139.7	10	8	0	199	29	54	18	99	12.8	1.9	1.2	3.5	0%	.345	1.63	4.70	5.48	113	6.57	140.2	-1.6
2009	NYN	0	23	23	135.0	7	8	0	164	51	75	16	94	10.9	3.4	1.1	5.0	0%	.329	1.59	4.63	5.47	108	6.11	131.0	-0.8
2009	WAS	0	8	8	48.7	2	4	0	56	16	27	3	93	10.4	3.0	0.6	5.0	0%	.317	1.48	3.73	5.36	107	5.49	117.8	0.0
2010	WAS	MLB	33	33	211.7	10	12	0	216	64	114	16	93	9.2	2.7	0.7	4.8	0%	.287	1.32	3.97	3.66	106	4.77	107.7	1.2
2011	WAS	MLB	29	29	175.3	8	13	0	199	46	99	16	97	10.2	2.4	0.8	5.1	0%	.313	1.40	3.92	4.47	103	4.47	103.9	1.2
2012	ATL	0	18	0	31.0	1	1	1	40	8	19	5	99	11.6	2.3	1.5	5.5	0%	.337	1.55	4.77	4.94	105	3.94	90.4	0.3
2012	MIL	0	26	0	36.3	3	0	0	44	8	29	10	106	10.9	2.0	2.5	7.2	0%	.315	1.43	5.85	7.68	98	3.40	78.0	0.6
1999	TOT	MLB	30	30	199.7	8	12	0	227	76	144	23	97	10.2	3.4	1.0	6.5	0%	.000	1.52	4.30	4.64	93	4.75	92.4	3.2
2006	TOT	MLB	34	34	216.0	13	13	0	246	78	128	29	92	10.3	3.3	1.2	5.3	0%	.000	1.50	4.80	4.83	112	5.74	116.9	0.2
2008	TOT	MLB	31	31	180.0	13	11	0	257	43	67	25	100	12.9	2.2	1.3	3.4	0%	.000	1.67	4.95	6.05	111	6.47	137.9	-1.9
2009	TOT	MLB	31	31	183.7	9	12	0	220	67	102	19	94	10.8	3.3	0.9	5.0	0%	.000	1.56	4.39	5.44	108	5.95	127.5	-0.8
2012	TOT	MLB	44	0	67.3	4	1	1	84	16	48	15	103	11.2	2.1	2.0	6.4	0%	.000	1.49	5.36	6.42	101	3.65	83.7	0.9
Career		MLB	519	474	3189.0	178	177	1	3525	1066	1976	362	97	9.9	3.0	1.0	5.6	45%	.306	1.44	4.35	4.44	102	4.87	102.3	29.4

Statistics for All Levels

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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-
1996	FLO	MLB	NL	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	3	2	2	0	97	9.0	6.0	0.0	6.0	0%	.333	1.67	3.75	0.00	82	2.67	52.7
1997	FLO	MLB	NL	17	17	96.3	9	3	0	81	38	72	5	95	7.6	3.6	0.5	6.7	0%	.265	1.24	3.53	3.18	99	4.16	86.5
1998	FLO	MLB	NL	33	33	234.3	10	12	0	265	104	162	37	96	10.2	4.0	1.4	6.2	0%	.312	1.57	5.14	4.72	109	5.92	122.7
1999	FLO	MLB	NL	20	20	136.0	5	9	0	161	55	97	17	97	10.7	3.6	1.1	6.4	0%	.327	1.59	4.53	4.76	94	4.86	94.5
1999	SFN	MLB	NL	10	10	63.7	3	3	0	66	21	47	6	96	9.3	3.0	0.8	6.6	0%	.300	1.37	3.81	4.38	92	4.52	87.9
2000	SFN	MLB	NL	33	33	240.0	17	11	0	254	73	165	22	109	9.5	2.7	0.8	6.2	0%	.303	1.36	3.83	3.75	87	3.94	75.8
2001	SFN	MLB	NL	34	34	226.7	13	15	0	266	85	138	24	96	10.6	3.4	1.0	5.5	0%	.319	1.55	4.32	5.24	100	4.67	96.8
2002	SFN	MLB	NL	33	33	216.0	12	16	0	233	71	134	19	97	9.7	3.0	0.8	5.6	0%	.309	1.41	3.81	4.38	92	3.67	78.7
2003	MON	MLB	NL	33	33	233.3	15	10	0	225	57	178	27	102	8.7	2.2	1.0	6.9	0%	.285	1.21	3.81	3.20	89	3.48	73.0
2004	MON	MLB	NL	35	35	255.0	11	15	0	234	83	186	26	92	8.3	2.9	0.9	6.6	0%	.278	1.24	3.90	3.60	93	3.71	76.5
2005	WAS	MLB	NL	35	35	246.3	15	10	0	268	84	147	25	89	9.8	3.1	0.9	5.4	0%	.305	1.43	4.29	3.98	106	4.86	104.5
2006	ARI	MLB	NL	10	10	69.3	4	5	0	70	26	39	7	97	9.1	3.4	0.9	5.1	0%	.281	1.38	4.50	3.76	109	5.76	117.3
2006	WAS	MLB	NL	24	24	146.7	9	8	0	176	52	89	22	90	10.8	3.2	1.4	5.5	0%	.310	1.55	4.94	5.34	114	5.73	116.8
2007	ARI	MLB	NL	33	33	204.3	11	11	0	247	79	90	34	103	10.9	3.5	1.5	4.0	0%	.303	1.60	5.70	4.93	126	7.35	152.0
2008	COL	MLB	NL	8	8	40.3	3	3	0	58	14	13	7	103	12.9	3.1	1.6	2.9	0%	.342	1.79	5.83	8.03	104	6.10	130.0
2008	MIN	MLB	AL	23	23	139.7	10	8	0	199	29	54	18	99	12.8	1.9	1.2	3.5	0%	.345	1.63	4.70	5.48	113	6.57	140.2
2009	NYN	MLB	NL	23	23	135.0	7	8	0	164	51	75	16	94	10.9	3.4	1.1	5.0	0%	.329	1.59	4.63	5.47	108	6.11	131.0
2009	WAS	MLB	NL	8	8	48.7	2	4	0	56	16	27	3	93	10.4	3.0	0.6	5.0	0%	.317	1.48	3.73	5.36	107	5.49	117.8
2010	WAS	MLB	NL	33	33	211.7	10	12	0	216	64	114	16	93	9.2	2.7	0.7	4.8	0%	.287	1.32	3.97	3.66	106	4.77	107.7
2011	WAS	MLB	NL	29	29	175.3	8	13	0	199	46	99	16	97	10.2	2.4	0.8	5.1	0%	.313	1.40	3.92	4.47	103	4.47	103.9
2012	ATL	MLB	NL	18	0	31.0	1	1	1	40	8	19	5	99	11.6	2.3	1.5	5.5	0%	.337	1.55	4.77	4.94	105	3.94	90.4
2012	MIL	MLB	NL	26	0	36.3	3	0	0	44	8	29	10	106	10.9	2.0	2.5	7.2	0%	.315	1.43	5.85	7.68	98	3.40	78.0

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2008	2747	0.5042	0.4143	0.9033	0.5957	0.2298	0.9382	0.8115	0.0967
2009	2948	0.4701	0.3901	0.8670	0.5548	0.2439	0.9116	0.7769	0.1330
2010	3222	0.4584	0.3942	0.8701	0.5640	0.2504	0.9172	0.7803	0.1299
2011	2661	0.4367	0.4303	0.8314	0.6308	0.2748	0.9045	0.7015	0.1686
2012	1097	0.4111	0.4093	0.8062	0.6009	0.2755	0.8819	0.6910	0.1938
Career	12675	0.4624	0.4065	0.8629	0.5859	0.2517	0.9147	0.7620	0.1371

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date
2005-10-05	2005-10-05	Off	Right	Knee	Surgery	Debridement	2005-10-05
2005-05-14	2005-05-14	DTD	Right	Knee	Inflammation		-
2005-02-19	2005-02-19	Camp		Lower Leg	Strain	Achilles Tendon	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2012	ATL	$750,000
2011	WAS	$1,000,000
2010	WAS	$900,000
2009	NYN	$1,000,000
2008	MIN	$5,000,000
2007	ARI	$7,000,000
2006	WAS	$8,000,000
2005	WAS	$8,000,000
2004	MON	$6,000,000
2003	MON	$3,500,000
2002	SFN	$3,625,000
2001	SFN	$3,025,000
2000	SFN	$1,325,000

Years	Description	Salary
13 yr	Previous	$49,125,000
13 yr	Total	$49,125,000

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
14 y 97 d	Greg Genske	1 year/$0.75M (2012)

Details

1 year/$0.75M (2012). Signed by Houston as a free agent 1/31/12 (minor-league contract). Released by Houston 3/29/12. Signed by Atlanta as a free agent 3/30/12. Performance bonuses based on innings (starting at 110) and games (starting at 35). DFA by Atlanta 6/15/12. Released by Atlanta 6/18/12. Signed by Milwaukee as a free agent 6/22/12. Sent outright to Triple-A by Milwaukee 10/12 (refused assignment 10/17/12).
1 year/$1M (2011). Signed extension with Washington 8/29/11. $0.75M in performance bonuses.
1 year (2010). Re-signed by Washington as a free agent 2/24/10 (minor-league contract). $0.9M salary in majors. Performance bonuses. Contract purchased 4/11/10.
1 year (2009). Signed by NY Mets as a free agent 2/14/09 (minor-league contract). $1M salary on 40-man roster. Performance bonuses: $0.1M each for 130, 140 IP. $0.15M each for 150, 160, 170 IP. 2 points for start, $1.5 points for appearance of 2 or more innings, 1 point for appearance of less than 2 innings: $25,000 each for 5, 10 points. $50,000 each for 15, 20, 25, 30 points. $0.1M for 35 points. Contract purchased by Mets 4/11/09. Released by Mets 8/20/09. Signed by Washington as a free agent 8/25/09 (minor-league contract).
1 year/$5M (2008). Signed by Minnesota as a free agent 2/12/08. $2M in performance bonuses. Claimed by Colorado off waivers from Minnesota 8/6/08 after being DFA 8/1/08.
3 years/$21M (2005-07). Signed extension with Montreal 4/04, deferring $2M of $6M 04 salary @ $1M/year 05-06. 05:$8M, 06:$8M, 07:$7M. Acquired by Arizona in trade from Washington 8/06.
4 years/$11.1M (2000-03), plus 2004 club option. $1.3M signing bonus. 00:$1M, 01:$2.35M, 02:$2.95M, 03:$3.5M, 04:$6.5M club option. $2.4M in performance bonuses over life of contract. Option vested 2003 with 650 IP 2001-03. Acquired by Montreal in trade from San Francisco 3/03 (Giants paid $3.2M of $3.5M 2003 salary).
Acquired by San Francisco in trade from Florida 7/99.
Signed by Florida 1996 as an amateur free agent from Cuba.

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	W	L	SV	G	GS	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	VORP	WARP
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?	0.0	0.0

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Date	Question	Answer
2012-01-09 13:00:00 (link to chat)	I think I ask every year, but how close is Vladdy Guerrero creeping towards the HOF? As an Expos fan, we're left hoping for Raines, waiting to hope for Vladdy, maybe celebrating Randy Johnson's brief Exponess? Although we do have a 60 year old Livan Hernandez's eventual 300th win to look forward to, I suppose. (achaik from Maine)	The Impaler is in good shape at 61.5/41.1/51.3, just a couple points below the standard, and 410 hits away from 3,000, through his age 36 season. Not particularly valuable anymore (1.0 WARP per year for 3 years) but the milestone will clinch it as far as the voters are concerned. (Jay Jaffe's Hall of Fame Special)
2010-10-25 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Don't you think it's strange that the home-plate umpire is the only person in the world who doesn't know which pitches are balls and which are strikes? I'm a traditionalist in many ways but surely MLB can see where this is heading. Which umpire wants to be the guy who denies the Cubs a World Championship on account of a wide strike zone? (Christopher from Nashville)	Sure, but then there's the counter-argument, which is that you got to make Livan Hernandez a star. (Christina Kahrl)
2010-05-19 13:00:00 (link to chat)	In light of last night's use, Phils fans are wondering about the possible overuse of Halladay. 132 pitches (he seemed to be laboring in the late innings too) in May seems like too many. According to some in the Phila. press Halladay has logged more innings (70.1) and thrown more pitches (1,006) in his first nine starts than he has at the start of any other season in his career. What should Phils fans be looking for to see if Halladay is being overused? If nothing else, those last 1 or 2 IP from him last night seem unnecessary. (Sophist from Chicago)	Halladay seems to actually enjoy the heavy usage and absent any sort of performance or physical sign, there's no reason not to do so. The thing is, we don't know what he can do because he hasn't done it and there's been no real progressive development. If you said "Who can go 130 every time out?", Halladay would be near the top of my off-top list with Sabathia, Livan Hernandez, Pettitte, and Lincecum. I think the bullpen situation is affecting his usage right now, but that's kind of smart. I'd like to see them pull him when they can, but the concept of reliever is to bring in another pitcher who's better right then -- is 100% of Jose Contreras better than 70% of Roy Halladay? 60%? (Will Carroll)
2010-05-05 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Six starts and 36.1 innings into the season, Livan Hernandez has an ERA (0.99) and a K/BB (13/11) both under 1.00. Is that the most awesomely unsustainable early-season stat line you've ever seen, or what? I think we all need to stop and admire it. (David from CT)	That is splendid. Well done, David. (Marc Normandin)
2010-02-02 13:00:00 (link to chat)	re: Progressive Resistance, I'd say there is a pretty significant difference. Your bench press story seems analogous to telling a pitcher "today throw 90 mph, next week throw 91 mph, in no time you'll be breaking 100!", or "this start you go 95 pitches, next time 98 pitches, in no time you'll be throwing 15-inning CGs". Innings PER YEAR seems very different, in my mind. No disrespect intended. (robertcfox from Washington DC)	The latter, more or less. I think velocity is much less changeable and at the major league level is more indicative of health/fatigue than efficiency. Look, not everyone will bench 300 and not everyone will become Livan Hernandez. Maybe some pitchers can only go 80 pitches. Maybe 1 will go 160 and not have an issue. Thing is, we don't know now. We guess. We tell them "here's the ball, good luck, I'll watch out for you when the clicker hits 100." I'm looking for a system that tells us "this is how many they can go and recover to do it again." (Will Carroll)
2009-07-01 14:00:00 (link to chat)	Seems to me that under almost any injury-recovery circumstance that occurs, the Mets are better off with hold-and-pray rather than trying to deal for one or two starters to try to salvage the season. I suppose if 4 of their 6 key DL residents (Beltran, Reyes, Maine, Perez?) return right after the ASB and are effective they might wish they had reinforcements, but more likely a trade is an expensive fool's errand. Yes? (mglick0718 from Oakland)	I still think they're better off tying to find a starting pitcher who might help for the stretch run, because I don't think they can count on Livan Hernandez or John Maine, let alone Oliver Perez; that sounds like an October rotation that gets beat. So they can hold-and-pray, sure, but I'd rather they tried to do the most they might with their opportunity. (Christina Kahrl)
2009-05-04 14:00:00 (link to chat)	Joe, should the Mets move Santana up to pitch on regular days rest? I think they should, which would also mean they could push Maine back and skip Livan. Is not skipping a pitcher the caliber of Livan a huge mistake? (JJ from NY)	Were I running a team, I'd have my top starter, top two, top three...wherever the dropoff in quality fell...on as close to a five-day schedule as is reasonable, to squeeze out extra starts. I'd want them getting 36 starts a year without changing their patterns. So yeah, I'd have Santana on a five-day, and I'd slide everyone else around to make it fit. Livan Hernandez isn't qualified to pitch in a good team's rotation. (Joe Sheehan)
2008-10-09 14:00:00 (link to chat)	If the Twins held onto Santana or took the Red Sox package (Lester/Crisp/Lowrie) they would be in the playoffs. Will the package they got from the Mets ultimately be viewed as a good move or will they regret the way they handled the situation? (Bill from CT)	Do we really know that a Lester/Crisp/Lowrie package was actually on the table, or was that a bug planted in the public ear by somebody from the Boston FO/Media yenta hotline? I seem to recall more of the talk focusing on Ellsbury at the front end of the package, but I have long since forgotten most of what transpired there. It will take years to properly evaluate the deal that actually was made. Will Gomez develop into a guy worthy of a leadoff spot? Will Deolis Guerra become a big league pitcher of worth? Will Mulvey and Humber become useful rotation parts? All of these things take time to sort out. Even with this deal, the Twins would have been in the playoffs had they punted on Livan Hernandez and brought up Francisco Liriano a couple weeks earlier. (Jay Jaffe)
2008-08-18 13:00:00 (link to chat)	So lately I've been thinking a lot about Livan Hernandez. I guess I wonder how history will remember him -- how will future generations of baseball historians conceive of a pitcher whose contribution was primarily his ability to pitch a ton of innings? I propose that his inning-eating ability will really stand out in retrospect. What do you think? (g-mo from bumpus)	I don't think history will remember Hernandez for that so much as for the 1997 Marlins, the 34-inch strike zone in Game Six against the Braves, and Charles Johnson still not believing that pitch was a strike. (Joe Sheehan)
2008-07-29 16:00:00 (link to chat)	Average PAP: Wood is first and Prior third Total PAP: Wood second, Prior fourth (Javier Vazquez first, Livan Hernandez third) (Ralph from Montreal)	There you go ... and where are Cueto and Volquez now? (Will Carroll)
2008-07-25 14:00:00 (link to chat)	I've been dominating the International League for the past month and a half. When do I get called up? It's not really about the money, is it? And don't tell me I'll be in the bullpen while Livan stays in the rotation. (Francisco Liriano from Rochester, NY)	Pick one: 1) The Twins are a savvy organization well aware of what various levels of service time mean financially and in terms of retaining a player. 2) The Twins are too stupid to notice that Francisco Liriano is better than Livan Hernandez by an order of magnitude. That's really the choice here. I know which one I go with. (Joe Sheehan)
2008-03-14 13:00:00 (link to chat)	How did the Phillies not come up with $4.5 million for Kyle Lohse? Or, considering your answer on team depth before, the Mets? Sure, he's mediocre, but Livan Hernandez got $5 million. The $4.5 seems below market value for a 4th/5th starter. (oira61 from San Francisco)	If I accept your premise, I think the whole point is that Lohse wasn't initially pricing himself at that point, and personalities do enter into things like this -- you can never tell who got alienated over the winter. It's also possible that teams don't see him as having that much value, right or wrong. (Steven Goldman)

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Livan Hernandez threw 13,986 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2012, including pitches thrown in . In 2012, he relied primarily on his Sinker (85mph) and Cutter (80mph), also mixing in a Curve (68mph), Fourseam Fastball (85mph) and Change (79mph).