Andy Benes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 235 lb

BornAugust 20, 1967 · Evansville, IN, USA

MLB debutAugust 11, 1989

Final gameSeptember 29, 2002

Seasons14 (1989–2002)

San Diego Padres 1989–1995; Seattle Mariners 1995; St. Louis Cardinals 1996–1997; Arizona Diamondbacks 1998–1999; St. Louis Cardinals 2000–2002

Percentile snapshot

2000 season — qualified pitchers

12.8

5.8

44.2

59.3

23.3

SHO

174

89.5

70.9

58.1

137

19.8

166.0

1.2

ERA

4.88

25.6

WHIP

1.458

40.7

K/9

7.43

73.3

FIP

5.00

26.7

FIP-

107.9

15.1

ERA+

95.0

20.9

sWAR

1.1

17.4

of 87 qualified 2000 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.2

50.4

sWAR

29.6

96.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1989	10	25	24	2	6	0	1	2	0	12	.250	.250	.375	.625	72.8	77.2	.282	0.8
1990	32	68	60	2	6	1	0	2	2	25	.100	.127	.117	.244	-45.6	-32.4	.118	2.2
1991	33	77	62	4	2	0	1	1	6	29	.032	.143	.081	.224	-38.3	-35.9	.129	4.0
1992	34	78	67	3	10	2	1	5	5	29	.149	.205	.224	.429	11.9	20.8	.206	3.2
1993	34	88	72	5	9	3	1	4	1	33	.125	.149	.208	.357	-16.1	-5.9	.162	3.1
1994	25	63	49	2	8	1	0	7	1	22	.163	.180	.184	.364	-12.5	-3.4	.167	2.2
1995	31	44	40	2	6	1	0	3	1	18	.150	.171	.175	.346	-14.6	-6.7	.160	0.8
1996	36	85	73	5	11	4	0	6	1	37	.151	.158	.205	.363	-14.2	-4.1	.161	3.1
1997	26	65	55	4	12	2	0	5	1	14	.218	.246	.255	.500	26.9	32.3	.231	4.1
1998	35	82	65	8	11	3	1	3	6	28	.169	.250	.262	.512	34.7	35.5	.241	3.3
1999	33	73	58	6	9	0	1	5	4	17	.155	.222	.207	.429	6.6	9.7	.205	1.6
2000	30	60	50	1	4	0	1	1	4	19	.080	.148	.140	.288	-32.8	-26.4	.142	1.1
2001	27	35	32	1	5	3	0	4	1	15	.156	.182	.250	.432	3.0	11.1	.191	-2.5
2002	19	37	34	3	7	1	1	2	1	9	.206	.229	.324	.552	38.6	45.6	.246	2.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1989	10	10	6	3	0	0	0	51	26	31	66	7	66.7	3.51	1.230	8.91	3.49	99.8	99.6	0.8
1990	32	31	10	11	0	2	0	177	77	69	140	18	192.3	3.60	1.279	6.55	3.66	96.0	105.9	2.2
1991	33	33	15	11	0	4	1	194	75	59	167	23	223.0	3.03	1.135	6.74	3.48	92.4	124.6	4.0
1992	34	34	13	14	0	2	2	230	86	61	169	14	231.3	3.35	1.258	6.57	2.96	82.7	106.9	3.2
1993	34	34	15	15	0	4	2	200	97	86	179	23	230.7	3.78	1.240	6.98	3.89	94.9	108.3	3.1
1994	25	25	6	14	0	2	2	155	74	51	189	20	172.3	3.86	1.195	9.87	3.29	79.7	106.7	2.2
1995	31	31	11	9	0	1	1	193	96	78	171	18	181.7	4.76	1.492	8.47	3.88	89.7	90.1	0.8
1996	36	34	18	10	1	3	1	215	98	77	160	28	230.3	3.83	1.268	6.25	4.37	104.7	109.0	3.1
1997	26	26	10	7	0	0	0	149	61	61	175	9	177.0	3.10	1.186	8.90	2.88	69.0	134.4	4.1
1998	34	34	14	13	0	1	0	221	102	74	164	25	231.3	3.97	1.275	6.38	4.09	96.9	106.5	3.3
1999	33	32	13	12	0	0	0	216	106	82	141	34	198.3	4.81	1.503	6.40	5.18	113.0	95.3	1.6
2000	30	27	12	9	0	1	0	174	90	68	137	30	166.0	4.88	1.458	7.43	5.00	107.9	95.0	1.1
2001	27	19	7	7	0	0	0	122	88	61	78	30	107.3	7.38	1.705	6.54	7.06	164.0	58.3	-2.5
2002	18	17	5	4	0	1	0	80	30	51	64	10	97.0	2.78	1.351	5.94	4.63	115.3	144.2	2.5

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

405

880

741

106

RBI

307

.1430

OBP

.1860

SLG

.2038

OPS

.3898

Pitching

G (P)

403

387

157th-most career GS

155

246th-most career W

139

217th-most career L

SHO

2,505

253rd-most career IP

SO (P)

2,000

90th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

909

156th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.973

WHIP

1.3116

K/9

7.18

183rd-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	TB
1989-09-03	PHI @ SD Gameday	2	1	1	1	2	4
1991-04-27	SD @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	1	1	4
1992-08-13	SD @ ATL Gameday	2	1	1	1	1	4
1993-05-12	SD @ CIN Gameday	1	1	1	1	1	4
1998-04-10	AZ @ SD Gameday	3	1	1	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1994-07-15	SD @ NYM Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	1	14	0
1994-07-03	NYM @ SD Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	1	13	0
1991-04-16	CIN @ SD Gameday	8.1	4	1	1	3	13	0
1997-07-12	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	12	1
1994-06-12	SD @ SF Gameday	8.0	6	2	1	0	12	1

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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.