Bruce Chen

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornJune 19, 1977 · Panama City, Panamá, Panama

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1998

Final gameMay 15, 2015

Seasons17 (1998–2015)

Atlanta Braves 1998–2000; Philadelphia Phillies 2000; New York Mets 2001; Philadelphia Phillies 2001; Cincinnati Reds 2002; Montreal Expos 2002; New York Mets 2002; Boston Red Sox 2003; Houston Astros 2003; Baltimore Orioles 2004–2006; Texas Rangers 2007; Kansas City Royals 2009–2014; Cleveland Indians 2015

Percentile snapshot

2012 season — qualified pitchers

93.1

96.6

26.4

4.6

SHO

215

5.7

108

4.6

78.2

140

28.7

3.4

191.7

ERA

5.07

5.7

WHIP

1.367

19.5

K/9

6.57

29.9

FIP

4.68

6.9

FIP-

113.7

13.8

ERA+

81.2

6.9

sWAR

-0.2

6.9

of 88 qualified 2012 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

92.7

11.6

sWAR

9.1

85.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1998	4	9	7	0	1	0	1	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.286	-38.4	-23.6	.129	0.2
1999	16	12	11	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.6	-100.0	.000	-0.1
2000	37	38	30	0	1	0	1	1	20	.033	.065	.033	.098	-89.8	-74.2	.053	3.0
2001	27	52	47	1	6	0	0	0	19	.128	.128	.128	.255	-45.9	-32.2	.114	0.3
2002	55	17	15	3	5	1	1	0	4	.333	.333	.400	.733	85.7	85.7	.328	-0.2
2003	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.5	-100.0	.000	-0.1
2004	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2005	34	4	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	150.0	130.3	.405	3.1
2006	40	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	463.2	423.4	.895	-1.5
2007	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2009	17	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	417.6	429.5	.812	-0.2
2010	33	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	498.9	447.3	.903	1.5
2011	25	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.4	-100.0	.000	2.1
2012	35	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	-0.7	10.5	.178	-0.2
2013	34	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	189.2	177.1	.448	2.3
2014	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.6
2015	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1998	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	23	9	9	17	3	20.3	3.98	1.574	7.52	4.79	114.9	104.6	0.2
1999	16	7	2	2	0	0	0	38	31	27	45	11	51.0	5.47	1.275	7.94	5.82	129.0	82.5	-0.1
2000	37	15	7	4	0	0	0	116	49	46	112	18	134.0	3.29	1.209	7.52	4.21	90.6	141.1	3.0
2001	27	27	7	7	0	0	0	146	79	59	126	29	146.0	4.87	1.404	7.77	5.10	120.6	86.8	0.3
2002	55	6	2	5	0	0	0	85	48	43	80	16	77.7	5.56	1.648	9.27	5.23	121.7	77.2	-0.2
2003	16	2	0	1	0	0	0	26	15	10	20	6	24.3	5.55	1.479	7.40	6.08	135.0	81.3	-0.1
2004	8	7	2	1	0	1	0	39	16	16	32	7	47.7	3.02	1.154	6.04	4.73	104.0	150.6	1.2
2005	34	32	13	10	0	1	0	187	84	63	133	33	197.3	3.83	1.267	6.07	4.97	114.8	113.1	3.1
2006	40	12	0	7	0	0	0	137	76	35	70	28	98.7	6.93	1.743	6.39	6.52	143.4	65.6	-1.5
2007	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	8	6	7	3	10.0	7.20	1.700	6.30	7.61	164.6	64.2	-0.2
2009	17	9	1	6	0	0	0	74	40	25	45	12	62.3	5.78	1.588	6.50	5.60	124.9	77.6	-0.2
2010	33	23	12	7	1	1	1	136	65	57	98	17	140.3	4.17	1.375	6.29	4.51	107.7	100.4	1.5
2011	25	25	12	8	0	1	0	152	65	50	97	18	155.0	3.77	1.303	5.63	4.42	108.2	108.3	2.1
2012	34	34	11	14	0	0	0	215	108	47	140	33	191.7	5.07	1.367	6.57	4.68	113.7	81.2	-0.2
2013	34	15	9	4	0	0	0	107	44	36	78	13	121.0	3.27	1.182	5.80	4.15	102.4	123.8	2.3
2014	13	7	2	4	0	0	0	69	40	16	36	7	48.3	7.45	1.759	6.70	4.61	119.2	51.9	-1.6
2015	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	17	9	1	4	3	6.3	12.79	2.842	5.68	8.47	201.5	32.9	-0.6

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

401

147

125

RBI

.1520

OBP

.1719

SLG

.1600

OPS

.3319

Pitching

G (P)

400

227

SHO

1,532

SO (P)

1,140

445th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

546

ERA

4.617

WHIP

1.3864

K/9

6.70

250th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
2002-05-14	WSH @ SD Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	3
1998-09-20	ATL @ AZ Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1
2002-04-17	CHC @ WSH Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	1
2000-08-11	HOU @ PHI Gameday	3	0	1	0	0	1
2001-05-16	MIL @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2011-08-23	KC @ TOR Gameday	7.2	4	3	3	1	9	1
2001-06-13	PHI @ TB Gameday	7.0	4	2	2	1	9	1
2000-09-29	PHI @ MIA Gameday	6.0	8	6	5	1	9	2
2000-09-02	PHI @ LAD Gameday	8.2	4	0	0	1	8	0
2011-09-13	MIN @ KC Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	1	8	0

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.