Brian Falkenborg
Baltimore Orioles 1999; Los Angeles Dodgers 2004; San Diego Padres 2005; St. Louis Cardinals 2006–2007; Los Angeles Dodgers 2008; San Diego Padres 2008
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 39.4 | -0.2 | .245 | -0.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.00 | 1.333 | 3.00 | 4.54 | 96.6 | — | 0.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 14.3 | 7.53 | 1.953 | 6.91 | 5.74 | 139.0 | 54.9 | -0.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 11.0 | 8.18 | 2.000 | 8.18 | 4.90 | 123.9 | 48.4 | -0.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6.3 | 2.84 | .789 | 7.11 | 2.00 | 45.2 | 155.9 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 18.7 | 4.82 | 1.607 | 7.71 | 4.30 | 99.3 | 89.9 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 4 | 22.3 | 5.24 | 1.701 | 7.66 | 5.34 | 132.5 | 77.3 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-04-27 | NYM @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004-05-06 | LAD @ MIA Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004-05-09 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004-05-14 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004-05-19 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-05-28 | AZ @ LAD Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 2007-09-18 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2004-05-14 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 2.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2005-07-08 | SD @ COL Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2007-09-05 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 2.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 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.