MLB / Players

A. J. Sager

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 220 lb
BornMarch 3, 1965 · Columbus, OH, USA
MLB debutApril 4, 1994
Final gameSeptember 26, 1998
Seasons5 (1994–1998)

San Diego Padres 1994; Colorado Rockies 1995; Detroit Tigers 1996–1998

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
0.6
60.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19942211100101020500.100.100.300.400-14.10.3.165-0.5
199510330000000100.000.000.000.000-144.0-100.0.000-0.3
1996220000000000000.8
1997380000000000001.2
199831110000000000.000.000.000.000-121.6-100.0.000-0.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19942231400062311626446.75.981.6715.014.22102.469.0-0.5
1995100000001912710114.77.361.7736.144.0279.668.6-0.3
199622945000914429521079.05.011.5195.924.7694.5100.30.8
199738134300813924531084.04.181.2505.684.3294.6109.41.2
19983134220079432323759.36.521.7193.495.19110.871.8-0.6

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

G
123
PA
15
AB
14
R
0
H
1
2B
0
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
0
SO
6
SB
0
BA
.0714
OBP
.0714
SLG
.2143
OPS
.2857

Pitching

G (P)
123
GS
16
W
12
L
15
SV
5
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
284
SO (P)
164
BB allowed
99
ERA
5.362
WHIP
1.5194
K/9
5.20

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1994-04-30SD @ WSH Gameday101010203
1994-04-04ATL @ SD Gameday000000000
1994-04-05ATL @ SD Gameday000000000
1994-04-07ATL @ SD Gameday000000000
1994-04-09MIA @ SD Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1996-07-20DET @ TOR Gameday8.0533361
1996-08-23DET @ KC Gameday6.1722061
1996-08-18DET @ CLE Gameday4.1300060
1996-08-28CLE @ DET Gameday5.0866152
1997-07-17DET @ LAA Gameday4.1444250

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.