Brian Powell
Detroit Tigers 1998; Houston Astros 2000–2001; Detroit Tigers 2002; San Francisco Giants 2003; Philadelphia Phillies 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .333 | .633 | 59.0 | 58.0 | .291 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 2002 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -53.9 | -34.9 | .112 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 59 | 36 | 46 | 17 | 83.7 | 6.35 | 1.637 | 4.95 | 6.13 | 130.7 | 73.8 | -0.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 20 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 31.3 | 5.74 | 1.500 | 4.02 | 6.82 | 143.1 | 83.0 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3.0 | 18.00 | 2.667 | 9.00 | 8.34 | 181.4 | 25.5 | -0.4 |
| 2002 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 31 | 21 | 30 | 11 | 57.7 | 4.84 | 1.474 | 4.68 | 5.64 | 132.8 | 87.8 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4.7 | 13.50 | 1.929 | 5.79 | 10.69 | 253.2 | 31.3 | -0.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 22 | 16 | 24 | 5 | 39.3 | 5.03 | 1.398 | 5.49 | 4.68 | 108.0 | 86.2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-08-08 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000-08-03 | HOU @ MIA Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004-07-02 | BAL @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998-07-02 | DET @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000-08-13 | HOU @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-06-15 | DET @ PHI Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| 2002-08-10 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998-09-11 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1998-06-27 | CIN @ DET Gameday | 6.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 1998-07-17 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 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.