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José Méndez
	José (Del Valle) Méndez
	(El Diamante Negro; Joe)

	Born: January 2, 1885 in Cárdenas, Cuba
	Died: October 31, 1928 - 43 years old in La Habana, Cuba
	Bats: R	Throws: R	Ht: 5'10"	Wt: 152

Pitching Ratings (?)

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Notes:
- Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Player in 2006
- Visit Méndez's Managerial Page
- Buried: Cementerio Cristóbal Cólon; Havana, La Habana, Cuba

Comparison

Starting Pitchers			All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WS	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	José Méndez	1908 - 1924	SP	208.4	25.4	15.2	167.7	-
2	Eustaquio Pedroso	1907 - 1924	SP	183.7	54.7	5.2	123.9	-
3	Dick Redding	1911 - 1924	SP	149.3	8.6	0.2	140.5	-
4	Joe Williams	1907 - 1924	SP	142.5	19.5	0.8	122.2	-
5	José Muñoz	1903 - 1914	SP	116.5	7.7	1.6	107.1	-
6	Rube Foster	1902 - 1917	SP	96.7	16.3	0.9	79.4	-
7	Juan Padrón	1915 - 1924	SP	96.4	3.4	0.1	93.0	-
8	Frank Wickware	1910 - 1921	SP	96.3	3.3	0.2	92.9	-
9	Dicta Johnson	1908 - 1923	SP	89.1	2.1	0.0	87.0	-
10	Dick Whitworth	1914 - 1924	SP	86.3	5.2	0.0	81.0	-
11	Dizzy Dismukes	1909 - 1924	SP	85.5	0.2	0.2	85.1	-
12	Jim Jeffries	1913 - 1924	SP	82.1	6.1	3.1	72.8	-
13	Pastor Pareda	1908 - 1917	SP	79.2	0.5	0.2	78.4	-
14	Tom Williams	1916 - 1924	SP	77.8	0.3	0.0	77.5	-
15	José Junco	1910 - 1922	SP	73.9	2.1	1.3	70.5	-
16	String Bean Williams	1910 - 1924	SP	72.0	8.4	0.3	63.3	-
17	Bill Gatewood	1906 - 1923	SP	70.5	11.8	0.3	58.4	-
18	Sam Crawford	1910 - 1924	SP	62.6	1.4	0.2	61.0	-
19	Harry Buckner	1899 - 1917	SP	62.2	20.3	1.4	40.5	-
20	Bill Drake	1916 - 1924	SP	60.6	2.0	0.1	58.6	-
21	Tom Johnson	1911 - 1921	SP	58.4	0.8	0.0	57.6	-
22	John Donaldson	1916 - 1924	SP	56.6	22.1	8.4	26.0	-
23	José Leblanc	1913 - 1921	SP	49.9	2.9	0.6	46.4	-
24	Walter Ball	1904 - 1921	SP	45.9	6.8	1.1	38.0	-
25	Phil Cockrell	1917 - 1933	SP	45.2	5.0	0.3	39.8	-
26	Adolfo Luque	1912 - 1917	SP	40.6	6.6	1.2	32.8	-
27	Bill Lindsay	1909 - 1914	SP	40.3	4.6	1.6	34.1	-
28	José Acosta	1912 - 1917	SP	38.3	1.9	0.1	36.3	-
29	Doc Sykes	1913 - 1924	SP	37.3	2.0	0.4	35.0	-
30	Harry Kenyon	1917 - 1924	SP	36.8	16.2	3.4	17.2	-
31	Charles Dougherty	1909 - 1915	SP	32.9	2.9	0.0	30.0	-
32	Tatica Campos	1912 - 1922	SP	30.8	9.3	5.7	15.7	-
33	Gerardo Ballesteros	1915 - 1917	SP	30.7	1.2	0.1	29.4	-
34	Steel Arm Johnny Taylor	1907 - 1920	SP	28.4	0.5	0.1	27.8	-
35	Lee Wade	1909 - 1920	SP	28.3	2.0	0.1	26.2	-
36	Emilio Palmero	1914 - 1917	SP	27.9	1.3	0.0	26.5	-
37	Roy Roberts	1916 - 1924	SP	27.6	0.6	0.1	27.0	-
38	George Britt	1917 - 1933	SP	27.2	6.1	1.7	19.4	-
39	Lefty Harvey	1912 - 1921	SP	24.1	0.4	0.8	22.9	-
40	Lico Mederos	1910 - 1920	SP	22.1	2.3	1.3	18.5	-
41	Horace Jenkins	1910 - 1921	SP	21.6	7.4	1.8	12.3	-
42	William Ross	1917 - 1924	SP	21.5	2.6	0.0	18.8	-
43	Isidro Fabré	1918 - 1933	SP	21.0	5.2	1.5	14.2	-
44	José Suárez	1916 - 1921	SP	20.5	2.4	0.3	17.9	-
45	Otis Starks	1917 - 1933	SP	18.3	0.2	0.0	18.1	-
46	Ad Lankford	1913 - 1920	SP	16.5	2.7	0.1	13.7	-
47	Francisco Muñoz	1913 - 1916	SP	16.1	0.6	0.0	15.5	-
48	José Hernández	1916 - 1920	SP	14.9	1.8	0.1	13.0	-
49	Evelio Calderín	1917 - 1924	SP	14.3	0.0	0.3	14.0	-
50	Pop Andrews	1905 - 1914	SP	14.0	3.6	0.2	10.1	-
51	Shang Johnson	1917 - 1921	SP	9.4	0.8	0.0	8.6	-
52	Pedro Dibut	1917 - 1923	SP	9.4	0.2	0.0	9.1	-
53	Arthur Gilliard	1909 - 1914	SP	9.2	0.3	0.0	8.9	-
54	Hub Miller	1911 - 1916	SP	8.5	3.1	0.1	5.2	-
55	Gunboat Thompson	1913 - 1920	SP	7.7	0.3	0.0	7.3	-
56	Henry McLaughlin	1912 - 1919	SP	7.5	1.4	0.6	5.5	-
57	Agapito Lázaga	1912 - 1922	SP	7.0	0.7	0.7	5.6	-
58	Sapho Bartlett	1910 - 1919	SP	5.9	0.7	0.0	5.2	-
59	Romey Fields	1918 - 1924	SP	5.8	3.1	0.0	2.7	-
60	Lawrence Simpson	1913 - 1917	SP	5.7	0.6	0.1	5.0	-
61	Angel Villazón	1913 - 1914	SP	5.7	0.5	0.0	5.2	-
62	Edgar Burch	1914 - 1917	SP	5.2	0.1	0.0	5.1	-
63	Faustino Valdés	1916 - 1920	SP	4.9	0.1	0.0	4.8	-
64	Leon	1915 - 1920	SP	4.8	1.1	0.1	3.6	-
65	Earl Yingling	1914 - 1914	SP	4.3	0.0	0.0	4.2	-
66	Prudencio Martínez	1918 - 1922	SP	3.9	0.3	0.0	3.6	-
67	Gifford McDonald	1910 - 1921	SP	3.5	0.0	0.2	3.3	-
68	Pat Ragan	1914 - 1914	SP	3.1	0.3	0.1	2.7	-
69	Bull Wagner	1914 - 1914	SP	3.1	0.0	0.0	3.1	-
70	Joe Smith	1913 - 1915	SP	2.4	0.8	0.0	1.6	-
71	Frank Casey	1915 - 1915	SP	2.3	0.0	0.1	2.2	-
72	Steven Dixon	1914 - 1916	SP	2.3	0.0	0.0	2.3	-
73	Henry Howell	1918 - 1918	SP	2.3	1.0	0.1	1.2	-
74	Sherley Moore	1914 - 1915	SP	2.2	0.0	0.0	2.2	-
75	Johnny Davis	1902 - 1915	SP	2.1	0.2	0.0	1.8	-
76	Pedro González	1915 - 1916	SP	2.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	-
77	Ruby Tyrees	1916 - 1924	SP	1.9	0.0	0.0	1.9	-
78	Charles Reese	1911 - 1914	SP	1.7	0.3	0.0	1.4	-
79	Wild Bill West	1907 - 1914	SP	1.6	0.6	0.1	0.9	-
80	Robert Prior	1914 - 1917	SP	1.6	0.8	0.0	0.8	-
81	Haney	1915 - 1915	SP	1.5	0.0	0.0	1.4	-
82	Conrado Rodríguez	1908 - 1916	SP	1.4	0.4	0.0	1.1	-
83	Earl Hamilton	1917 - 1917	SP	1.4	0.0	0.0	1.4	-
84	George Branham	1917 - 1917	SP	1.3	0.2	0.0	1.1	-
85	James Patton	1907 - 1914	SP	1.3	0.5	0.1	0.7	-
86	Sell Hall	1917 - 1917	SP	1.3	0.0	0.0	1.3	-
87	Hank Weidell	1916 - 1916	SP	1.1	0.4	0.0	0.8	-
88	Enrique Díaz	1914 - 1914	SP	1.1	0.0	0.0	1.1	-
89	Lem McDougal	1917 - 1920	SP	0.9	0.2	0.0	0.8	-
90	Bill Cadreau	1917 - 1917	SP	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.9	-
91	Lefty Maples	1916 - 1916	SP	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.8	-
92	Charlie Bradford	1912 - 1922	SP	0.7	0.4	0.0	0.3	-
93	Pablo Armenteros	1916 - 1916	SP	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.7	-
94	F. Banks	1914 - 1920	SP	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.6	-
95	F. López	1915 - 1915	SP	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.6	-
96	Mike Flanagan	1917 - 1917	SP	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.6	-
97	Dolph White	1912 - 1914	SP	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.5	-
98	Red Keys	1918 - 1918	SP	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	-
99	Miguel Clemente	1912 - 1916	SP	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	-
100	Palmer Kelley	1916 - 1917	SP	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	-

	José Méndez	1908 - 1924	SP	208.4	25.4	15.2	167.7	-