Brian Anderson
Chicago White Sox 2005–2008; Boston Red Sox 2009; Chicago White Sox 2009
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 13 | 35 | 34 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .176 | .176 | .382 | .559 | 31.7 | 41.0 | .233 | -0.2 |
| 2006 | 134 | 405 | 365 | 46 | 82 | 23 | 1 | 8 | 33 | 30 | 90 | 4 | 7 | .225 | .290 | .359 | .649 | 63.3 | 65.3 | .288 | -0.2 |
| 2007 | 13 | 19 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .211 | .176 | .387 | 1.8 | 2.3 | .192 | -0.2 |
| 2008 | 109 | 193 | 181 | 24 | 42 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 10 | 45 | 5 | 1 | .232 | .272 | .436 | .709 | 79.2 | 82.0 | .309 | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 86 | 231 | 202 | 32 | 49 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 23 | 54 | 3 | 6 | .243 | .328 | .347 | .674 | 77.4 | 75.6 | .308 | 0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-08-26 | CWS @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 2009-10-03 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 2006-08-14 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 2006-07-24 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2006-05-10 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
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.