Desi Relaford

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 155 lb

BornSeptember 16, 1973 · Valdosta, GA, USA

MLB debutAugust 1, 1996

Final gameJuly 28, 2007

Seasons11 (1996–2007)

Philadelphia Phillies 1996–2000; San Diego Padres 2000; New York Mets 2001; Seattle Mariners 2002; Kansas City Royals 2003–2004; Colorado Rockies 2005; Texas Rangers 2007

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified batters

141

27.9

557

29.1

500

30.9

27.3

127

16.4

29.7

72.1

13.3

RBI

26.7

70.9

85.5

29.1

.254

OBP

.315

17.6

SLG

.376

10.9

OPS

.691

12.1

wRC+

82.6

11.5

OPS+

81.8

10.9

wOBA

.308

10.9

sWAR

0.8

11.5

of 166 qualified 2003 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

74.5

5.3

OPS+

74.3

4.9

sWAR

2.9

73.5

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
1996	15	44	40	2	7	2	0	0	1	3	9	1	0	.175	.233	.225	.458	20.1	21.5	.217	-0.2
1997	15	44	38	3	7	1	2	0	6	5	6	3	0	.184	.279	.316	.595	56.5	55.5	.278	0.0
1998	142	546	494	45	121	25	3	5	41	33	87	9	5	.245	.293	.338	.631	60.0	64.4	.282	-0.2
1999	65	242	211	31	51	11	2	1	26	19	34	4	3	.242	.322	.327	.649	63.6	63.5	.298	0.0
2000	128	502	410	55	88	14	3	5	46	75	71	13	0	.215	.351	.300	.651	74.3	68.7	.307	0.6
2001	120	340	301	43	91	27	0	8	36	27	65	13	5	.302	.364	.472	.836	120.9	119.7	.364	2.3
2002	112	376	329	55	88	13	2	6	43	33	51	10	3	.267	.339	.374	.713	95.7	95.0	.318	1.1
2003	141	557	500	70	127	27	5	8	59	40	70	20	4	.254	.315	.376	.691	82.6	81.8	.308	0.8
2004	114	430	380	45	84	14	0	6	34	34	56	5	4	.221	.296	.305	.601	57.3	57.7	.273	-0.8
2005	73	238	210	24	47	13	2	1	16	22	42	3	3	.224	.308	.319	.627	54.4	57.6	.287	-0.3
2007	14	28	26	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	1	.115	.179	.115	.294	-25.4	-21.0	.150	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2001	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.0	0.00	.000	9.00	1.01	24.2	—	2.3

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

939

3,347

2,939

375

714

147

RBI

308

293

497

.2429

OBP

.3193

SLG

.3467

OPS

.6660

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

.0000

K/9

9.00

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
2000-05-25	PHI @ HOU Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	3	9
2001-04-26	NYM @ MIL Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	2	8
2001-09-27	NYM @ WSH Gameday	4	3	3	2	0	1	3	8
2001-05-08	NYM @ COL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1998-07-04	MIL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2001-05-17	SD @ NYM Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	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.