Calvin Pickering
Baltimore Orioles 1998–1999; Boston Red Sox 2001; Cincinnati Reds 2001; Kansas City Royals 2004–2005
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 | 9 | 24 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .333 | .524 | .857 | 121.6 | 121.5 | .370 | 0.1 |
| 1999 | 23 | 51 | 40 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .314 | .225 | .539 | 57.9 | 44.0 | .276 | -0.2 |
| 2001 | 21 | 62 | 54 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .371 | .463 | .834 | 122.6 | 118.8 | .370 | 0.3 |
| 2004 | 35 | 142 | 122 | 21 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 26 | 18 | 42 | 0 | 0 | .246 | .338 | .500 | .838 | 113.3 | 115.1 | .359 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | 31 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .226 | .259 | .485 | 26.3 | 29.0 | .221 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-08-22 | TEX @ KC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 2001-09-20 | TB @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2004-09-22 | KC @ TB Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2004-09-20 | KC @ TB Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 1999-09-23 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 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.