In a nine-year career, Mendoza compiled a 59–40 record with 463 strikeouts and a 4.30 earned run average in 797 innings pitched. Mendoza was the only player in the last 75 years to win a World Series ring with both the New York Yankees (1996, 1998–2000) and Boston Red Sox (2004) before Johnny Damon and Eric Hinske joined the Yankees club in 2009.\n', '

Mendoza made his major league debut in 1996, going 4-5 with a 6.79 ERA in his rookie season. He did not appear on the postseason roster. In 1997, Mendoza went 8-6 with a 4.24 ERA, while starting 15 games, as both a starter and a reliever. He also appeared in his first two postseason games in 1997, going 1-1 with an ERA of 2.45 while throwing 133 and 2/3 innings, a sharp increase from the 53 he pitched in 1996.\n', '

1998 was statistically Mendoza\'s best season, as he went 10-2 with an ERA of 3.25, both career bests. In the postseason, he pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings against the Cleveland Indians over two games of the American League Championship Series. In the 1998 World Series against the San Diego Padres, Mendoza pitched one inning of two hit, one run, one strikeout ball in Game 3. He earned his second World Series ring when the Yankees swept the Padres.\n', '

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