Brandon Lyon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 10, 1979 · Salt Lake City, UT, USA

MLB debutAugust 4, 2001

Final gameJuly 4, 2013

Seasons12 (2001–2013)

Toronto Blue Jays 2001–2002; Boston Red Sox 2003; Arizona Diamondbacks 2005–2008; Detroit Tigers 2009; Houston Astros 2010–2012; Toronto Blue Jays 2012; New York Mets 2013

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

8.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2001	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
2002	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
2003	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
2005	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
2006	68	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	—	1.000	—	—	353.0	—	.733	1.3
2007	73	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2008	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2009	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
2010	79	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2011	15	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	789.7	707.5	1.290	-1.0
2012	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2013	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2001	11	11	5	4	0	63	30	15	35	6	63.0	4.29	1.238	5.00	3.99	87.7	106.0	0.8
2002	15	10	1	4	0	78	45	19	30	14	62.0	6.53	1.565	4.35	6.04	131.9	70.1	-0.7
2003	49	0	4	6	9	73	27	19	50	6	59.0	4.12	1.559	7.63	3.79	81.4	113.0	0.9
2005	32	0	0	2	14	44	21	10	17	6	29.3	6.44	1.841	5.22	5.72	130.6	68.0	-0.4
2006	68	0	2	4	0	68	30	22	46	7	69.3	3.89	1.298	5.97	4.05	86.5	120.1	1.3
2007	73	0	6	4	2	70	22	22	40	2	74.0	2.68	1.243	4.86	3.38	72.7	173.9	2.3
2008	61	0	3	5	26	75	31	13	44	7	59.3	4.70	1.483	6.67	3.81	84.0	96.5	0.5
2009	65	0	6	5	3	56	25	31	57	7	78.7	2.86	1.106	6.52	4.11	91.2	157.5	2.2
2010	79	0	6	6	20	68	27	31	54	2	78.0	3.12	1.269	6.23	3.36	84.6	127.6	1.6
2011	15	0	3	3	4	27	17	5	6	4	13.3	11.48	2.400	4.05	7.12	188.8	32.9	-1.0
2012	67	0	4	2	1	56	21	20	63	5	61.0	3.10	1.246	9.30	3.23	79.1	132.1	1.3
2013	37	0	2	2	0	43	19	13	23	3	34.3	4.98	1.631	6.03	3.95	111.5	71.2	-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

572

RBI

1.0000

OBP

1.0000

SLG

2.0000

OPS

3.0000

Pitching

G (P)

572

285th-most career G (P)

234th-most career SV

SHO

681

SO (P)

465

BB allowed

220

ERA

4.161

WHIP

1.3811

K/9

6.14

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
2011-04-23	HOU @ MIL Gameday	1	1	1	1	2
2002-06-16	TOR @ WSH Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2002-06-19	TOR @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2003-06-04	BOS @ PIT Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
2003-06-07	BOS @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2001-10-07	CLE @ TOR Gameday	6.0	5	2	2	2	8	1
2002-04-10	NYY @ TOR Gameday	6.1	9	7	7	1	6	2
2001-08-16	ATH @ TOR Gameday	5.0	5	4	4	2	6	1
2001-08-04	BAL @ TOR Gameday	7.1	4	1	1	1	5	0
2001-08-26	TOR @ BAL Gameday	6.0	3	1	1	0	4	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.