MLB / Players

Alan Benes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 215 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1972 · Evansville, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 19, 1995

Final gameMay 28, 2003

Seasons8 (1995–2003)

St. Louis Cardinals 1995–1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1999–2001; Chicago Cubs 2002–2003; Texas Rangers 2003

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified pitchers

48.1

33.3

44.4

51.9

49.4

SHO

46.9

192

70.4

104

32.1

131

39.5

28.4

191.0

29.6

ERA

4.90

28.4

WHIP

1.461

27.2

K/9

6.17

50.6

FIP

5.04

FIP-

120.7

2.5

ERA+

85.1

7.4

sWAR

0.3

7.4

of 82 qualified 1996 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.0

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1995	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.0	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1996	34	70	61	4	9	3	5	2	25	.148	.175	.197	.371	-7.6	-1.3	.171	0.3
1997	23	54	52	1	9	2	3	0	16	.173	.173	.212	.385	-12.0	0.9	.172	4.0
1999	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
2000	30	4	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.750	1.250	221.5	210.7	.542	0.0
2001	9	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	172.7	162.7	.448	-0.3
2002	7	14	13	0	1	0	0	1	8	.077	.143	.077	.220	-47.9	-38.9	.118	0.2
2003	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.8	-100.0	.000	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1995	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	24	15	4	20	2	16.0	8.44	1.750	11.25	3.13	75.1	49.4	-0.7
1996	34	32	13	10	0	3	1	192	104	87	131	27	191.0	4.90	1.461	6.17	5.04	120.7	85.1	0.3
1997	23	23	9	9	0	2	0	128	52	68	160	13	161.7	2.89	1.212	8.91	3.47	83.3	144.0	4.0
1999	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	2.0	0.00	1.000	9.00	1.07	23.4	—	0.1
2000	30	0	2	2	0	0	0	54	29	23	26	7	46.0	5.67	1.674	5.09	5.53	119.4	81.7	0.0
2001	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	14	12	12	10	5	14.7	7.36	1.773	6.14	8.53	198.2	58.4	-0.3
2002	7	7	2	2	0	0	0	42	19	12	32	3	39.3	4.35	1.373	7.32	3.16	79.1	91.8	0.2
2003	7	4	0	3	1	0	0	37	21	14	20	2	23.3	8.10	2.186	7.71	4.25	89.4	58.1	-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

115

151

139

RBI

.1583

OBP

.1761

SLG

.2014

OPS

.3775

Pitching

G (P)

115

SHO

494

SO (P)

401

BB allowed

220

ERA

4.591

WHIP

1.4433

K/9

7.31

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	RBI	TB
1997-05-27	STL @ COL Gameday	3	1	3	1	2	4
1996-06-26	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2
1996-06-21	STL @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	1	2	2
1996-07-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	2
1997-05-21	PIT @ STL Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1996-04-10	WSH @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	11	1
1997-05-16	STL @ ATL Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	3	11	0
1997-06-16	STL @ MIL Gameday	8.1	4	1	1	3	11	1
1997-06-11	STL @ SD Gameday	6.0	4	3	3	4	11	0
1995-09-30	PIT @ STL Gameday	8.2	7	1	1	2	10	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.