Darren Oliver

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 250 lb

BornOctober 6, 1970 · Kansas City, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1993

Final gameSeptember 29, 2013

Seasons20 (1993–2013)

Texas Rangers 1993–1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1998; Texas Rangers 1998; St. Louis Cardinals 1999; Texas Rangers 2000–2001; Boston Red Sox 2002; Colorado Rockies 2003; Florida Marlins 2004; Houston Astros 2004; New York Mets 2006; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2007–2009; Texas Rangers 2010–2011; Toronto Blue Jays 2012–2013

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified pitchers

53.8

41.8

46.2

41.8

19.8

SHO

201

40.7

101

17.6

42.9

7.7

54.9

180.3

15.4

ERA

5.04

14.3

WHIP

1.453

16.5

K/9

4.39

8.8

FIP

4.66

25.3

FIP-

96.0

42.9

ERA+

96.3

26.4

sWAR

1.9

31.9

of 92 qualified 2003 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.3

50.8

sWAR

23.5

94.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1993	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1994	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
1995	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1996	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1997	32	3	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167	230.5	206.0	.546	3.2
1998	30	30	29	1	3	2	0	1	1	14	.103	.133	.172	.306	-32.9	-21.0	.140	-0.4
1999	35	84	73	7	20	4	0	6	3	23	.274	.303	.329	.631	58.3	60.0	.286	3.2
2000	21	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	31.7	-6.0	.246	-1.5
2001	28	8	6	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.500	.833	111.5	111.0	.359	-0.6
2002	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.2	-100.0	.000	0.5
2003	35	73	67	6	17	3	1	8	3	17	.254	.296	.343	.639	52.1	56.5	.289	1.9
2004	28	25	22	0	3	0	0	1	0	9	.136	.136	.136	.273	-46.2	-28.7	.123	-0.7
2006	45	16	15	2	2	1	0	2	1	7	.133	.188	.200	.388	-4.0	1.4	.181	1.6
2007	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2008	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2009	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
2010	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2011	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
2012	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2013	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1993	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	4	1	3.3	2.70	.900	10.80	5.40	128.6	155.6	0.1
1994	43	0	4	0	2	0	0	40	19	35	50	4	50.0	3.42	1.500	9.00	4.70	98.7	139.1	1.2
1995	17	7	4	2	0	0	0	47	23	32	39	3	49.0	4.22	1.612	7.16	4.36	90.5	114.2	0.8
1996	30	30	14	6	0	1	1	190	90	76	112	20	173.7	4.66	1.532	5.80	4.94	95.3	111.2	2.6
1997	32	32	13	12	0	3	1	213	94	82	104	29	201.3	4.20	1.465	4.65	5.37	112.8	113.3	3.2
1998	29	29	10	11	0	2	0	204	102	66	87	18	160.3	5.73	1.684	4.88	4.96	108.4	80.2	-0.4
1999	30	30	9	9	0	2	1	197	93	74	119	16	196.3	4.26	1.380	5.46	4.22	92.0	107.6	3.2
2000	21	21	2	9	0	0	0	151	89	42	49	16	108.0	7.42	1.787	4.08	5.52	108.7	68.5	-1.5
2001	28	28	11	11	0	1	0	189	103	65	104	23	154.0	6.02	1.649	6.08	5.07	107.7	78.2	-0.6
2002	14	9	4	5	0	1	1	70	30	27	32	7	58.0	4.66	1.672	4.97	5.23	114.7	98.0	0.5
2003	33	32	13	11	0	1	0	201	101	61	88	21	180.3	5.04	1.453	4.39	4.66	96.0	96.3	1.9
2004	27	10	3	3	0	0	0	87	48	21	46	14	72.7	5.94	1.486	5.70	5.10	118.6	72.4	-0.7
2006	45	0	4	1	0	0	0	70	31	21	60	13	81.0	3.44	1.123	6.67	4.60	105.4	126.8	1.6
2007	61	0	3	1	0	0	0	58	27	23	51	5	64.3	3.78	1.259	7.13	3.85	85.5	119.4	1.2
2008	54	0	7	1	0	0	0	67	23	16	48	5	72.0	2.88	1.153	6.00	3.57	80.9	153.3	2.0
2009	63	1	5	1	0	0	0	61	22	22	65	5	73.0	2.71	1.137	8.01	3.36	76.4	162.3	2.1
2010	64	0	1	2	1	0	0	53	17	15	65	4	61.7	2.48	1.103	9.49	2.61	59.1	178.0	2.0
2011	61	0	5	5	2	0	0	47	13	11	44	3	51.0	2.29	1.137	7.76	2.81	63.6	192.2	1.7
2012	62	0	3	4	2	0	0	43	13	15	52	3	56.7	2.06	1.024	8.26	2.91	69.0	203.8	2.0
2013	50	0	3	4	0	0	0	47	21	15	40	6	49.0	3.86	1.265	7.35	4.08	100.1	105.5	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

775

243

217

RBI

.2212

OBP

.2588

SLG

.2857

OPS

.5445

Pitching

G (P)

766

69th-most career G (P)

229

118

462nd-most career W

SHO

1,916

499th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,259

354th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

720

358th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.510

WHIP

1.4392

K/9

5.91

399th-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	HR	RBI	TB
2003-07-10	SF @ COL Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1999-06-14	WSH @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	2	3
1999-04-16	STL @ HOU Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	3
1999-09-18	HOU @ STL Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2	2
2003-07-29	COL @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1999-08-03	SD @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	11	0
1995-06-09	CWS @ TEX Gameday	7.2	4	1	1	2	10	1
1998-06-05	SD @ TEX Gameday	6.2	9	6	6	1	10	0
2003-07-23	COL @ LAD Gameday	7.0	4	2	2	1	9	0
2001-07-21	TEX @ TB Gameday	8.0	3	2	2	0	8	2

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.