Cole Hamels

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornDecember 27, 1983 · San Diego, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 12, 2006

Final gameSeptember 16, 2020

Seasons15 (2006–2020)

Philadelphia Phillies 2006–2015; Texas Rangers 2015–2017; Chicago Cubs 2018; Texas Rangers 2018; Chicago Cubs 2019; Atlanta Braves 2020

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified pitchers

42.1

47.4

12.3

61.4

SHO

176

31.6

33.3

26.3

188

64.9

8.8

190.7

61.4

ERA

3.78

45.6

WHIP

1.264

38.6

K/9

8.87

54.4

FIP

4.49

15.8

FIP-

100.1

33.3

ERA+

117.9

56.1

sWAR

3.5

66.7

of 58 qualified 2018 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

121.9

91.1

sWAR

51.2

98.9

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2006	23	53	44	4	5	0	0	0	3	6	24	0	0	.114	.216	.114	.329	-14.0	-12.7	.174	2.1
2007	30	72	64	7	9	2	0	0	2	2	26	0	0	.141	.164	.172	.336	-27.2	-13.3	.154	4.0
2008	36	85	76	3	17	2	0	0	3	0	29	0	0	.224	.234	.250	.484	17.1	26.7	.219	5.7
2009	32	69	61	6	9	3	0	0	5	1	29	1	0	.148	.161	.197	.358	-22.2	-6.1	.162	1.7
2010	34	72	67	4	10	2	0	0	2	0	20	0	0	.149	.149	.179	.328	-28.3	-11.8	.147	4.4
2011	33	75	69	2	11	0	1	0	3	3	33	0	1	.159	.194	.188	.383	-4.2	6.6	.180	4.8
2012	31	82	69	5	15	2	0	1	5	4	27	0	1	.217	.270	.290	.560	49.3	52.0	.256	5.0
2013	33	71	56	4	10	1	1	0	5	1	24	0	1	.179	.207	.232	.439	10.4	22.1	.201	2.7
2014	30	69	62	1	13	2	0	0	0	0	28	0	0	.210	.210	.242	.452	11.9	26.1	.202	5.4
2015	32	46	42	2	7	1	0	0	0	0	17	0	0	.167	.167	.190	.357	-17.6	-1.2	.158	2.9
2016	32	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-55.2	-33.7	.110	4.6
2017	24	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.6	-100.0	.000	2.4
2018	32	27	25	1	3	0	0	1	1	1	12	0	0	.120	.154	.240	.394	-8.4	4.0	.174	3.5
2019	27	46	42	1	6	1	0	0	4	1	15	0	0	.143	.178	.167	.344	-15.4	-8.1	.156	2.3
2020	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2006	23	23	9	8	0	0	117	60	48	145	19	132.3	4.08	1.247	9.86	3.94	85.2	113.3	2.1
2007	28	28	15	5	2	0	163	69	43	177	25	183.3	3.39	1.124	8.69	3.77	83.7	133.1	4.0
2008	33	33	14	10	2	2	193	78	53	196	28	227.3	3.09	1.082	7.76	3.69	84.9	140.9	5.7
2009	32	32	10	11	2	2	206	93	43	168	24	193.7	4.32	1.286	7.81	3.68	87.0	97.7	1.7
2010	33	33	12	11	1	0	185	71	61	211	26	208.7	3.06	1.179	9.10	3.70	91.5	131.9	4.4
2011	32	31	14	9	3	0	169	67	44	194	19	216.0	2.79	.986	8.08	3.02	79.5	136.1	4.8
2012	31	31	17	6	2	2	190	73	52	216	24	215.3	3.05	1.124	9.03	3.35	83.8	130.9	5.0
2013	33	33	8	14	1	0	205	88	50	202	21	220.0	3.60	1.159	8.26	3.23	86.4	103.8	2.7
2014	30	30	9	9	0	0	176	56	59	198	14	204.7	2.46	1.148	8.71	3.04	82.2	150.2	5.4
2015	32	32	13	8	2	1	190	86	62	215	22	212.3	3.65	1.187	9.11	3.48	87.8	108.6	2.9
2016	32	32	15	5	0	0	185	74	77	200	24	200.7	3.32	1.306	8.97	3.94	88.2	134.6	4.6
2017	24	24	11	6	1	0	125	69	53	105	18	148.0	4.20	1.203	6.39	4.60	96.8	113.3	2.4
2018	32	32	9	12	1	0	176	80	65	188	29	190.7	3.78	1.264	8.87	4.49	100.1	117.9	3.5
2019	27	27	7	7	0	0	141	60	56	143	17	141.7	3.81	1.391	9.08	4.05	93.5	113.6	2.3
2020	1	1	0	1	0	0	3	3	1	2	0	3.3	8.10	1.200	5.40	2.92	64.0	56.2	-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

430

778

688

116

RBI

286

.1686

OBP

.1947

SLG

.2064

OPS

.4011

Pitching

G (P)

423

422

111th-most career GS

163

221st-most career W

122

324th-most career L

SHO

2,698

202nd-most career IP

SO (P)

2,560

34th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

767

290th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.426

385th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1827

126th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.54

61st-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
2011-05-03	WSH @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	4
2012-07-21	SF @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
2018-09-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
2009-07-06	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	0	2	3
2013-07-14	CWS @ PHI Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2007-04-21	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	15	1
2015-07-25	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	2	13	0
2007-09-28	WSH @ PHI Gameday	8.0	6	0	0	1	13	0
2008-06-11	PHI @ MIA Gameday	8.0	3	2	2	1	13	2
2010-09-14	PHI @ MIA Gameday	6.2	5	1	1	2	13	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

1× NLCS MVP1× World Series MVP4× 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.