Ben Ford
Arizona Diamondbacks 1998; New York Yankees 2000; Milwaukee Brewers 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 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2004 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10.0 | 9.90 | 1.600 | 4.50 | 6.17 | 146.0 | 42.7 | -0.5 |
| 2000 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 11.0 | 9.00 | 1.909 | 4.09 | 6.22 | 130.1 | 53.1 | -0.4 |
| 2004 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 24.0 | 6.38 | 1.458 | 4.88 | 5.54 | 127.2 | 68.3 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-08-20 | AZ @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998-08-25 | PIT @ AZ Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998-09-06 | HOU @ AZ Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998-09-09 | LAD @ AZ Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998-09-11 | AZ @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-06-23 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 6.1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 2004-04-15 | MIL @ HOU Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004-05-09 | MIL @ NYM Gameday | 1.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004-05-05 | MIL @ CIN Gameday | 1.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1998-09-16 | SF @ AZ Gameday | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 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.