MLB / Players

Brad Lidge

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 210 lb

BornDecember 23, 1976 · Sacramento, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 26, 2002

Final gameJune 16, 2012

Seasons11 (2002–2012)

Houston Astros 2002–2007; Philadelphia Phillies 2008–2011; Washington Nationals 2012

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

11.1

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

Season	G	PA	AB	H	2B	RBI	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2002	6	2	2	2	1	2	0	1.000	1.000	1.500	2.500	611.2	537.4	1.097	0.0
2003	78	4	4	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.5	-100.0	.000	1.5
2004	80	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.8	-100.0	.000	3.5
2005	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2006	78	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2007	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
2008	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
2009	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.4
2010	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2011	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
2012	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2002	6	1	1	0	0	12	6	9	12	0	8.7	6.23	2.423	12.46	3.92	91.8	68.5	0.0
2003	78	0	6	3	1	60	34	42	97	6	85.0	3.60	1.200	10.27	3.27	75.0	121.2	1.5
2004	80	0	6	5	29	57	20	30	157	8	94.7	1.90	.919	14.93	1.88	43.4	227.2	3.5
2005	70	0	4	4	42	58	18	23	103	5	70.7	2.29	1.146	13.12	2.10	49.8	184.1	2.3
2006	78	0	1	5	32	69	44	36	104	10	75.0	5.28	1.400	12.48	3.75	84.8	83.7	0.0
2007	66	0	5	3	19	54	25	30	88	9	67.0	3.36	1.254	11.82	3.82	86.6	131.3	1.4
2008	72	0	2	0	41	50	15	35	92	2	69.3	1.95	1.226	11.94	2.38	54.8	223.5	2.5
2009	67	0	0	8	31	72	47	34	61	11	58.7	7.21	1.807	9.36	5.41	128.1	58.6	-1.4
2010	50	0	1	1	27	32	15	24	52	5	45.7	2.96	1.226	10.25	3.89	96.4	136.7	1.0
2011	25	0	0	2	1	16	3	13	23	0	19.3	1.40	1.500	10.71	2.79	73.4	272.1	0.8
2012	11	0	0	1	2	12	10	11	10	1	9.3	9.64	2.464	9.64	5.92	150.0	40.9	-0.5

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

603

RBI

.2857

OBP

.2857

SLG

.4286

OPS

.7143

Pitching

G (P)

603

238th-most career G (P)

225

47th-most career SV

SHO

603

SO (P)

799

BB allowed

287

ERA

3.535

WHIP

1.2912

K/9

11.92

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	H	2B	RBI	TB
2002-09-18	HOU @ MIL Gameday	2	2	1	2	3
2002-04-26	HOU @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2002-05-03	NYM @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2002-09-09	COL @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2002-09-12	STL @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	BB	SO
2003-05-31	HOU @ CHC Gameday	3.0	3	1	6
2004-06-13	HOU @ MIL Gameday	2.0	0	1	6
2004-10-20	HOU @ STL Gameday	3.0	0	0	5
2004-10-16	STL @ HOU Gameday	2.0	1	1	5
2002-09-18	HOU @ MIL Gameday	3.0	2	2	4

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

2× 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.