A. J. Hinch
Oakland Athletics 1998–2000; Kansas City Royals 2001–2002; Detroit Tigers 2003; Philadelphia Phillies 2004
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 120 | 391 | 337 | 34 | 78 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 35 | 30 | 89 | 3 | 0 | .231 | .296 | .341 | .638 | 67.2 | 67.5 | .287 | 0.7 |
| 1999 | 76 | 228 | 205 | 26 | 44 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 11 | 41 | 6 | 2 | .215 | .260 | .346 | .607 | 53.8 | 56.3 | .270 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .250 | .583 | 60.0 | 53.5 | .282 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 45 | 134 | 121 | 10 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 26 | 1 | 1 | .157 | .226 | .331 | .556 | 31.9 | 39.4 | .242 | -0.3 |
| 2002 | 72 | 220 | 197 | 25 | 49 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 27 | 18 | 35 | 3 | 3 | .249 | .321 | .401 | .722 | 83.1 | 82.0 | .322 | 0.8 |
| 2003 | 27 | 82 | 74 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .203 | .247 | .392 | .639 | 64.4 | 68.6 | .274 | 0.1 |
| 2004 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .273 | .455 | 2.7 | 15.4 | .197 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-04-14 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1998-04-25 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2002-05-14 | MIN @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1999-05-05 | ATH @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1998-06-20 | ATH @ SEA Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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.