Brian Buchanan
Minnesota Twins 2000–2002; San Diego Padres 2002–2003; New York Mets 2004; San Diego Padres 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 30 | 93 | 82 | 10 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 0 | 2 | .232 | .301 | .305 | .606 | 52.4 | 52.4 | .278 | -0.4 |
| 2001 | 69 | 219 | 197 | 28 | 54 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 32 | 19 | 58 | 1 | 1 | .274 | .342 | .487 | .830 | 116.0 | 114.4 | .361 | 0.7 |
| 2002 | 92 | 245 | 227 | 31 | 61 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 28 | 15 | 59 | 2 | 2 | .269 | .322 | .467 | .789 | 110.4 | 110.3 | .347 | 0.7 |
| 2003 | 115 | 228 | 198 | 29 | 52 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 29 | 24 | 51 | 6 | 2 | .263 | .346 | .455 | .801 | 114.7 | 114.4 | .353 | 0.7 |
| 2004 | 40 | 72 | 63 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .278 | .317 | .595 | 51.6 | 58.9 | .259 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-06-19 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 2003-05-28 | MIL @ SD Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 2001-08-18 | TB @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2001-09-01 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 2003-06-10 | SD @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.