David Purcey
Toronto Blue Jays 2008–2010; Detroit Tigers 2011; Oakland Athletics 2011; Toronto Blue Jays 2011; Chicago White Sox 2013
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 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2010 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 2013 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 67 | 40 | 29 | 58 | 9 | 65.0 | 5.54 | 1.477 | 8.03 | 4.70 | 110.5 | 76.8 | -0.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 33 | 30 | 39 | 6 | 48.0 | 6.19 | 1.750 | 7.31 | 5.08 | 114.7 | 71.6 | -0.4 |
| 2010 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 14 | 15 | 32 | 3 | 34.0 | 3.71 | 1.206 | 8.47 | 3.64 | 86.6 | 113.2 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 21 | 27 | 22 | 2 | 33.7 | 5.61 | 1.782 | 5.88 | 4.93 | 120.8 | 72.5 | -0.3 |
| 2013 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 2 | 25.3 | 2.13 | 1.421 | 8.17 | 4.54 | 109.5 | 194.2 | 0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-05-16 | TOR @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010-06-12 | TOR @ COL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010-06-15 | TOR @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011-06-18 | DET @ COL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011-06-21 | DET @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-08-27 | TOR @ TB Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| 2009-04-12 | TOR @ CLE Gameday | 4.2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
| 2008-08-08 | CLE @ TOR Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 2008-09-07 | TB @ TOR Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 2008-09-12 | TOR @ BOS Gameday | 6.2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 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.