Denard Span
Minnesota Twins 2008–2012; Washington Nationals 2013–2015; San Francisco Giants 2016–2017; Seattle Mariners 2018; Tampa Bay Rays 2018
Percentile snapshot
2017 season — qualified batters
of 144 qualified 2017 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 93 | 411 | 347 | 70 | 102 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 47 | 50 | 60 | 18 | 7 | .294 | .387 | .432 | .819 | 124.1 | 120.5 | .369 | 2.2 |
| 2009 | 145 | 676 | 578 | 97 | 180 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 68 | 70 | 89 | 23 | 10 | .311 | .392 | .415 | .807 | 118.3 | 114.4 | .362 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 153 | 705 | 629 | 85 | 166 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 58 | 60 | 74 | 26 | 4 | .264 | .331 | .348 | .679 | 89.1 | 86.6 | .312 | 1.8 |
| 2011 | 70 | 311 | 284 | 37 | 75 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 27 | 36 | 6 | 1 | .264 | .328 | .359 | .687 | 93.0 | 90.2 | .312 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 128 | 568 | 516 | 71 | 146 | 38 | 4 | 4 | 41 | 47 | 62 | 17 | 6 | .283 | .342 | .395 | .738 | 105.9 | 103.1 | .329 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 153 | 662 | 610 | 75 | 170 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 47 | 42 | 77 | 20 | 6 | .279 | .327 | .380 | .707 | 96.5 | 94.9 | .320 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 147 | 668 | 610 | 94 | 184 | 39 | 8 | 5 | 37 | 50 | 65 | 31 | 7 | .302 | .355 | .416 | .771 | 119.0 | 115.1 | .347 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 61 | 275 | 246 | 38 | 74 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 11 | 0 | .301 | .365 | .431 | .796 | 122.3 | 117.5 | .355 | 1.8 |
| 2016 | 143 | 637 | 572 | 70 | 152 | 23 | 5 | 11 | 53 | 53 | 79 | 12 | 7 | .266 | .331 | .381 | .712 | 95.0 | 93.5 | .318 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 129 | 542 | 497 | 73 | 135 | 31 | 5 | 12 | 43 | 40 | 69 | 12 | 7 | .272 | .329 | .427 | .756 | 99.4 | 97.9 | .330 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 137 | 501 | 437 | 63 | 114 | 22 | 7 | 11 | 58 | 51 | 79 | 9 | 4 | .261 | .341 | .419 | .760 | 113.2 | 111.4 | .332 | 1.8 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-28 | WSH @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 2010-06-29 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 2017-05-11 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2018-08-09 | SEA @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2008-09-13 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
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.