MLB / Players

Clay Buchholz

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 14, 1984 · Nederland, TX, USA

MLB debutAugust 17, 2007

Final gameSeptember 29, 2019

Seasons13 (2007–2019)

Boston Red Sox 2007–2016; Philadelphia Phillies 2017; Arizona Diamondbacks 2018; Toronto Blue Jays 2019

Percentile snapshot

2014 season — qualified pitchers

6.9

9.2

4.6

32.2

SHO

88.5

182

58.6

101

4.6

44.8

132

55.2

170.3

11.5

ERA

5.34

WHIP

1.386

10.3

K/9

6.97

39.1

FIP

4.04

26.4

FIP-

103.1

36.8

ERA+

73.3

sWAR

-1.2

of 88 qualified 2014 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.4

65.7

sWAR

17.8

92.6

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	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2007	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2008	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.1
2009	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2010	28	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	496.2	440.1	.903	5.7
2011	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2012	29	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.0	-100.0	.000	1.2
2013	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
2014	28	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	194.8	182.4	.451	-1.2
2015	18	6	6	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.7	-100.0	.000	2.4
2016	37	3	2	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	36.1	1.2	.238	0.8
2017	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.6	-100.0	.000	-0.6
2018	17	37	31	2	1	1	1	17	.065	.094	.097	.191	-67.6	-48.8	.090	3.3
2019	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2007	4	3	3	1	1	1	14	4	10	22	0	22.7	1.59	1.059	8.74	2.83	60.6	293.7	1.0
2008	16	15	2	9	1	0	93	57	41	72	11	76.0	6.75	1.763	8.53	4.85	107.3	66.9	-1.1
2009	16	16	7	4	0	0	91	43	36	68	13	92.0	4.21	1.380	6.65	4.74	103.4	109.0	1.3
2010	28	28	17	7	1	1	142	45	67	120	9	173.7	2.33	1.203	6.22	3.58	83.4	184.2	5.7
2011	14	14	6	3	0	0	76	32	31	60	10	82.7	3.48	1.294	6.53	4.38	101.8	123.5	1.6
2012	29	29	11	8	2	1	187	96	64	129	25	189.3	4.56	1.326	6.13	4.60	108.7	92.8	1.2
2013	16	16	12	1	1	1	75	21	36	96	4	108.3	1.74	1.025	7.98	2.81	68.5	235.0	4.1
2014	28	28	8	11	2	2	182	101	54	132	17	170.3	5.34	1.386	6.97	4.04	103.1	73.3	-1.2
2015	18	18	7	7	1	0	114	41	23	107	6	113.3	3.26	1.209	8.50	2.65	62.4	130.2	2.4
2016	37	21	8	10	0	0	130	74	55	93	21	139.3	4.78	1.328	6.01	5.02	113.8	92.3	0.8
2017	2	2	0	1	0	0	16	10	3	5	1	7.3	12.27	2.591	6.14	4.81	111.5	35.2	-0.6
2018	16	16	7	2	1	0	80	22	22	81	9	98.3	2.01	1.037	7.41	3.43	82.8	205.8	3.3
2019	12	12	2	5	0	0	72	43	16	39	13	59.0	6.56	1.492	5.95	5.66	122.5	70.5	-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

238

RBI

.0870

OBP

.1250

SLG

.1087

OPS

.2337

Pitching

G (P)

236

218

SHO

1,332

SO (P)

1,024

BB allowed

458

ERA

3.979

WHIP

1.2985

K/9

6.92

219th-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	H	2B	RBI	TB
2018-09-08	ATL @ AZ Gameday	2	1	1	1	2
2010-06-26	BOS @ SF Gameday	1	1	0	0	1
2014-05-26	BOS @ ATL Gameday	1	1	0	0	1
2018-06-06	AZ @ SF Gameday	3	1	0	0	1
2009-08-14	BOS @ TEX Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2014-07-13	BOS @ HOU Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	12	0
2013-04-14	TB @ BOS Gameday	8.0	2	0	0	4	11	0
2015-05-15	BOS @ SEA Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	0	11	1
2013-04-25	HOU @ BOS Gameday	7.2	6	2	2	2	10	0
2010-04-22	TEX @ BOS Gameday	6.2	6	3	3	1	10	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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.