What years did Joel Pineiro play?

Joel Pineiro played in Major League Baseball from 2000 to 2011.

Was Joel Pineiro a pitcher?

Yes. Joel Pineiro pitched in the major leagues, recording 104 wins and 1058 strikeouts.

How many home runs did Joel Pineiro hit?

Joel Pineiro hit 0 career home runs with 17 hits.

What was Joel Pineiro's career batting average?

Joel Pineiro batted .102 over his career, with 17 hits in 167 at bats.

How many RBI did Joel Pineiro have?

Joel Pineiro drove in 10 runs in his career.

What was Joel Pineiro's career ERA?

Joel Pineiro finished with a 4.41 career ERA, going 104-93 with 1,058 strikeouts.

Joel Pineiro

Pitcher · Career Stats, Bio & Records (2000-2011)

Joel Pineiro was a pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from 2000 to 2011 for 4 teams, including the Seattle Mariners, a span of 12 seasons. Across 335 career appearances, he went 104-93 with a 4.41 ERA and 1,058 strikeouts. His career Pitcher PIV — Baseball Data Hub's era-adjusted measure of pitching impact — is 5134.4.

W (Wins):: Games credited to a pitcher whose team took a lead it never surrendered while he was the pitcher of record.
ERA (Earned Run Average):: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched: (ER × 9) ÷ IP. The primary measure of pitching effectiveness.
SO (Strikeouts):: For a batter, times retired on a third strike; for a pitcher, batters retired on a third strike.
WHIP (Walks and Hits per Inning Pitched):: Baserunners allowed per inning: (BB + H) ÷ IP. Under 1.00 is elite.

Data updated October 12, 2026

W–L 104–93

ERA 4.41

WHIP 1.35

SO 1,058

Pitcher PIV 5134.4

Position: Pitcher
Bats / Throws: R / R
Height / Weight: 6'0" / 200 lb
Born: 9/25/1978 in Rio Piedras, P.R.
MLB Debut: 2000-08-08
Last Game: 2011-09-25

Full name: Joel Alberto Pineiro

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Career Pitching Statistics

Joel Pineiro — Career Pitching Statistics
W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	Pitcher PIV
104	93	335	263	15	6	2	1754.1	1,878	859	193	487	1,058	4.41	5134.4

Career ERA 4.41 vs. league average 4.36 across their career seasons — near league average.

Season-by-Season Pitching

Pitching Career Arc

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Joel Pineiro Stats, Bio & Career Records
Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	Lg ERA	Pitcher PIV
2000	SEA	AL	1	0	8	1	0	0	0	19.1	25	12	13	10	5.59	4.77 (-17%)	-659.6
2001	SEA	AL	6	2	17	11	0	0	0	75.1	50	17	21	56	2.03	4.42 (+54%)	2972.5
2002	SEA	AL	14	7	37	28	2	1	0	194.1	189	70	54	136	3.24	4.28 (+24%)	851.3
2003	SEA	AL	16	11	32	32	3	2	0	211.2	192	89	76	151	3.78	4.40 (+14%)	2572.4
2004	SEA	AL	6	11	21	21	1	0	0	140.2	144	73	43	111	4.67	4.46 (-5%)	182.6
2005	SEA	AL	7	11	30	30	2	0	0	189.0	224	118	56	107	5.62	4.29 (-31%)	-769.9
2006	SEA	AL	8	13	40	25	1	0	1	165.2	209	117	64	87	6.36	4.53 (-40%)	-2959.1
2007	BOS	AL	1	1	31	0	0	0	0	34.0	41	19	14	20	5.03	4.47 (-12%)	-51.5
2007	SLN	NL	6	4	11	11	0	0	0	63.2	69	28	12	40	3.96	4.47 (+12%)	-586.7
2008	SLN	NL	7	7	26	25	0	0	1	148.2	180	85	35	81	5.15	4.32 (-19%)	-1445.5
2009	SLN	NL	15	12	32	32	3	2	0	214.0	218	83	27	105	3.49	4.32 (+19%)	5848.7
2010	LAA	AL	10	7	23	23	3	1	0	152.1	155	65	34	92	3.84	4.08 (+6%)	939.8
2011	LAA	AL	7	7	27	24	0	0	0	145.2	182	83	38	62	5.13	3.94 (-30%)	-1760.5
Career · 13 seasons			104	93	335	263	15	6	2	1,754.1	1,878	859	487	1,058	4.41	—	5,134

Lg columns show the league average for that season, with the player's figure as a percentage above or below it. Career totals the seasons listed above.

Career Batting Statistics

Joel Pineiro — Career Batting Statistics
G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	PIV
344	167	13	17	6	0	0	10	1	11	97	.102	.157	.138	.295	-1,082

Career AVG .102 vs. league average .264 across their career seasons — 61.4% below league average.

Career OBP .157 vs. league average .333 across their career seasons — 52.7% below league average.

Career SLG .138 vs. league average .420 across their career seasons — 67.2% below league average.

Career OPS .295 vs. league average .753 across their career seasons — 60.8% below league average.

Season-by-Season Batting

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Joel Pineiro Stats, Bio & Career Records
Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	Lg AVG	Lg OBP	Lg SLG	Lg OPS	PIV
2000	SEA	AL	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2001	SEA	AL	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2002	SEA	AL	37	7	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	.143	—	—	—	—	0.0
2003	SEA	AL	32	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2004	SEA	AL	21	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.200	—	—	—	—	0.0
2005	SEA	AL	30	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2006	SEA	AL	40	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2007	BOS	AL	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2007	SLN	NL	14	18	2	1	0	0	0	2	13	.056	—	—	—	—	0.0
2008	SLN	NL	31	51	3	5	3	4	0	3	35	.098	.263 (-63%)	.333 (-56%)	.416 (-62%)	.749 (-59%)	-505.7
2009	SLN	NL	33	66	4	9	2	4	1	4	33	.136	.262 (-48%)	.332 (-44%)	.417 (-60%)	.750 (-53%)	-576.8
2010	LAA	AL	23	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
2011	LAA	AL	27	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
Career · 13 seasons			344	167	13	17	6	10	1	11	97	.102	—	—	—	—	-1,082

Lg columns show the league average for that season, with the player's figure as a percentage above or below it. Career totals the seasons listed above.

Postseason Statistics

Playoff Career Batting

Joel Pineiro — Playoff Career Batting
G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000

Playoff Batting by Year

Joel Pineiro — Playoff Batting by Year
Year	Round	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
2009	NLDS1	SLN	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000
2001	ALCS	SEA	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Playoff Career Pitching

Joel Pineiro — Playoff Career Pitching
W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
0	1	2	1	0	6.0	11	5	2	8	7.50

Playoff Pitching by Year

Joel Pineiro — Playoff Pitching by Year
Year	Round	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
2009	NLDS1	SLN	0	1	1	1	0	4.0	7	4	0	3	9.00
2001	ALCS	SEA	0	0	1	0	0	2.0	4	1	2	5	4.50

Game Log & Splits

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Per-game data from Retrosheet (regular season, through 2025).

Batting — Home / Away

Joel Pineiro — Batting — Home / Away
Split	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Home	170	55	2	7	0	4	.127
Away	174	112	11	10	0	6	.089

Pitching — Home / Away

Joel Pineiro — Pitching — Home / Away
Split	G	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Home	166	888.1	889	364	254	543	3.69
Away	169	866.0	989	495	233	515	5.14

Last 10 Games — Pitching

Joel Pineiro — Last 10 Games — Pitching
Date	Tm	Opp	Dec	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2011-09-25	LAA	OAK	—	6.1	3	0	0	0	4	0
2011-09-20	LAA	TOR	W	6.0	9	4	4	2	3	0
2011-09-12	LAA	OAK	L	3.0	5	5	5	2	4	1
2011-09-04	LAA	MIN	W	7.0	5	1	1	1	1	1
2011-08-29	LAA	SEA	—	6.0	7	3	3	2	2	0
2011-08-20	LAA	BAL	—	6.0	9	4	4	0	2	1
2011-08-15	LAA	TEX	—	3.0	3	0	0	0	3	0
2011-08-13	LAA	TOR	—	2.0	3	3	2	1	0	0
2011-08-10	LAA	NYY	—	3.0	3	3	3	1	0	1
2011-08-03	LAA	MIN	L	4.1	7	7	7	1	2	2

Fielding Statistics

Career Fielding Totals by Position

Joel Pineiro — Career Fielding Totals by Position
Position	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
P	335	263	163	225	11	26

Season-by-Season Fielding

Joel Pineiro — Season-by-Season Fielding
Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
2000	SEA	P	8	1	1	2	0	0
2001	SEA	P	17	11	4	4	0	0
2002	SEA	P	37	28	14	34	2	4
2003	SEA	P	32	32	20	24	1	2
2004	SEA	P	21	21	12	11	1	1
2005	SEA	P	30	30	23	18	1	5
2006	SEA	P	40	25	24	12	0	6
2007	BOS	P	31	0	3	7	0	0
2007	SLN	P	11	11	5	11	2	0
2008	SLN	P	26	25	15	28	1	0
2009	SLN	P	32	32	27	31	1	3
2010	LAA	P	23	23	11	26	1	3
2011	LAA	P	27	24	4	17	1	2

Career Games by Position

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Joel Pineiro Stats, Bio & Career Records
Position	Games
Pitcher	335

Awards & Honors

Joel Pineiro — Awards & Honors
Year	Award	Notes
2006	Player of the Week	Week of 2006-05-06

Salary History

Joel Pineiro — Salary History
Year	Team	League	Salary
2011	LAA	AL	$8,000,000
2010	LAA	AL	$8,000,000
2009	SLN	NL	$7,500,000
2008	SLN	NL	$5,500,000
2007	BOS	AL	$4,000,000
2006	SEA	AL	$6,800,000
2005	SEA	AL	$4,700,000
2004	SEA	AL	$3,000,000
2003	SEA	AL	$440,000
2002	SEA	AL	$255,000
Total Career Earnings			$48,195,000

College History

Joel Pineiro — College History
School Name	City	State	Years Attended
Edison College	Fort Myers	FL	1997

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Joel Pineiro: the record in brief

Joel Pineiro's major league career runs from a debut on August 8, 2000 to a final game on September 25, 2011. The season rows list, in order, the Seattle Mariners (2000 to 2006), the Boston Red Sox (2007), the St. Louis Cardinals (2007 to 2009), and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2010 to 2011). Pineiro, a pitcher by primary position, both batted and threw right-handed. Pineiro is listed at 6-foot-0 and 200 pounds. Pineiro was born on September 25, 1978, in Rio Piedras, P.R. On the record, Joel Pineiro was born Joel Alberto Pineiro.

Pineiro's career pitching line is 104 wins, 93 losses and a 4.41 ERA over 335 appearances. The totals include 1,058 strikeouts, 15 complete games, and 6 shutouts. Pineiro's 4.41 ERA was close to the 4.36 league figure for those seasons. 2003 brought Pineiro a season-high 16 wins. Among the heaviest workloads, the lowest ERA was 3.24 in 2002, when the league's was 4.28. Pitcher PIV, the site's era-adjusted run-prevention measure, totals 5,134.4 for Pineiro's career.

Frequently Asked Questions about Joel Pineiro

What years did Joel Pineiro play?: Joel Pineiro played in Major League Baseball from 2000 to 2011.
Was Joel Pineiro a pitcher?: Yes. Joel Pineiro pitched in the major leagues, recording 104 wins and 1058 strikeouts.
How many home runs did Joel Pineiro hit?: Joel Pineiro hit 0 career home runs with 17 hits.
What was Joel Pineiro's career batting average?: Joel Pineiro batted .102 over his career, with 17 hits in 167 at bats.
How many RBI did Joel Pineiro have?: Joel Pineiro drove in 10 runs in his career.
What was Joel Pineiro's career ERA?: Joel Pineiro finished with a 4.41 career ERA, going 104-93 with 1,058 strikeouts.