Collin Balester
Washington Nationals 2008–2011; Detroit Tigers 2012; Cincinnati Reds 2015
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 15 | 25 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .294 | .200 | .494 | 38.1 | 34.3 | .246 | -0.3 |
| 2009 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 | -7.0 | -4.8 | .183 | -0.6 |
| 2010 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 2011 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 49 | 28 | 50 | 12 | 80.0 | 5.51 | 1.500 | 5.63 | 5.08 | 119.5 | 77.1 | -0.3 |
| 2009 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 23 | 14 | 20 | 10 | 30.3 | 6.82 | 1.582 | 5.93 | 7.41 | 176.4 | 61.5 | -0.6 |
| 2010 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 2 | 21.0 | 2.57 | 1.238 | 12.00 | 3.53 | 88.5 | 155.3 | 0.6 |
| 2011 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 18 | 14 | 34 | 7 | 35.7 | 4.54 | 1.458 | 8.58 | 4.90 | 129.3 | 83.4 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 18.0 | 6.50 | 1.389 | 6.00 | 7.66 | 182.0 | 64.7 | -0.3 |
| 2015 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 15.7 | 7.47 | 1.915 | 7.47 | 6.67 | 169.1 | 52.8 | -0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09-19 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008-07-12 | HOU @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008-07-29 | PHI @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009-07-28 | WSH @ MIL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008-07-01 | WSH @ MIA Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-24 | MIL @ WSH Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 2008-08-31 | ATL @ WSH Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2008-09-14 | WSH @ MIA Gameday | 6.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 2008-07-29 | PHI @ WSH Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 2008-08-03 | CIN @ WSH Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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.