A. J. Cole
Washington Nationals 2015–2017; New York Yankees 2018; Washington Nationals 2018; Cleveland Indians 2019; Toronto Blue Jays 2020–2021
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 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
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .393 | 7.8 | 6.6 | .201 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 32 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | 1.333 | 1.667 | 335.6 | 314.1 | .670 | -0.5 |
| 2019 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 9.3 | 5.79 | 1.607 | 8.68 | 2.95 | 75.2 | 67.8 | -0.1 |
| 2016 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 22 | 14 | 39 | 7 | 38.3 | 5.17 | 1.330 | 9.16 | 4.78 | 114.2 | 81.0 | -0.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 22 | 27 | 44 | 8 | 52.0 | 3.81 | 1.500 | 7.62 | 5.21 | 117.9 | 116.2 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 32 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 33 | 22 | 59 | 15 | 48.3 | 6.14 | 1.593 | 10.99 | 6.14 | 146.1 | 68.5 | -0.5 |
| 2019 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 11 | 8 | 30 | 4 | 26.0 | 3.81 | 1.500 | 10.38 | 3.87 | 82.4 | 123.3 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 3 | 23.3 | 3.09 | 1.200 | 7.71 | 4.28 | 94.1 | 147.4 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8.0 | 1.13 | .875 | 7.88 | 3.46 | 78.4 | 392.5 | 0.4 |
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
Pitching
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
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-03 | WSH @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017-09-25 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017-09-30 | PIT @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015-04-28 | WSH @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015-05-15 | WSH @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-22 | WSH @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| 2017-08-25 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 2016-09-08 | PHI @ WSH Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| 2015-05-23 | PHI @ WSH Gameday | 4.1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 2017-08-13 | SF @ WSH Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
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.