Brian Bixler
Pittsburgh Pirates 2008–2009; Washington Nationals 2011; Houston Astros 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 50 | 120 | 108 | 16 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 1 | 0 | .157 | .229 | .194 | .423 | 4.6 | 14.0 | .196 | -0.8 |
| 2009 | 18 | 46 | 44 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 1 | 0 | .227 | .261 | .341 | .602 | 53.4 | 58.3 | .270 | -0.1 |
| 2011 | 79 | 94 | 83 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 3 | .205 | .267 | .265 | .532 | 34.1 | 48.0 | .233 | -0.6 |
| 2012 | 36 | 96 | 88 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 36 | 3 | 0 | .193 | .253 | .330 | .582 | 52.5 | 55.8 | .262 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-18 | KC @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2012-06-25 | SD @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012-06-12 | HOU @ SF Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011-06-24 | WSH @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009-04-28 | PIT @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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.