MLB / Players

Cliff Politte

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornFebruary 27, 1974 · Kirkwood, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 2, 1998

Final gameJuly 15, 2006

Seasons9 (1998–2006)

St. Louis Cardinals 1998; Philadelphia Phillies 1999–2002; Toronto Blue Jays 2002–2003; Chicago White Sox 2004–2006

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

4.7

78.7

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	8	16	14	0	1	0	0	1	8	.071	.133	.071	.205	-52.8	-43.8	.110	-0.6
1999	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2000	12	19	15	1	2	1	2	1	4	.133	.176	.200	.376	-15.2	-5.3	.171	1.2
2001	23	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	38.4	-0.9	.244	0.8
2002	68	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.4	-100.0	.000	1.3
2003	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2004	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2005	68	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	472.5	429.1	.892	2.6
2006	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1998	8	8	2	3	0	45	26	18	22	6	37.0	6.32	1.703	5.35	5.53	131.0	66.7	-0.6
1999	13	0	1	0	0	19	14	15	15	2	17.7	7.13	1.925	7.64	5.39	115.3	65.6	-0.3
2000	12	8	4	3	0	55	24	27	50	8	59.0	3.66	1.390	7.63	4.50	96.1	127.8	1.2
2001	23	0	2	3	0	24	7	8	23	2	26.0	2.42	1.231	7.96	3.28	76.6	176.5	0.8
2002	68	0	3	3	1	57	30	28	72	5	73.7	3.67	1.154	8.80	3.17	71.3	121.3	1.3
2003	54	0	1	5	12	52	31	17	40	11	49.3	5.66	1.399	7.30	5.47	116.9	82.6	0.0
2004	54	0	0	3	1	52	25	22	48	6	51.3	4.38	1.442	8.42	4.21	89.0	107.9	0.7
2005	68	0	7	1	1	42	15	21	57	7	67.3	2.00	.936	7.62	3.78	84.0	224.4	2.6
2006	30	0	2	2	0	47	29	15	15	9	30.0	8.70	2.067	4.50	7.69	164.4	53.8	-1.0

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

330

RBI

.1212

OBP

.1892

SLG

.1515

OPS

.3407

Pitching

G (P)

330

SHO

411

SO (P)

342

BB allowed

171

ERA

4.398

WHIP

1.3712

K/9

7.48

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
2000-07-29	LAD @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	2
2000-06-12	MIA @ PHI Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	1
2005-06-08	CWS @ COL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1
1998-04-23	STL @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1
2000-09-28	PHI @ CHC Gameday	1	0	0	0	1	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-09-28	PHI @ CHC Gameday	7.0	6	1	1	2	9	0
2000-06-17	ATL @ PHI Gameday	6.0	6	2	2	1	7	2
2000-09-11	WSH @ PHI Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	2	6	2
2000-06-06	TB @ PHI Gameday	7.0	8	3	3	5	6	0
2000-07-29	LAD @ PHI Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	3	6	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.