Doug Linton
Toronto Blue Jays 1992; California Angels 1993; Toronto Blue Jays 1993; New York Mets 1994; Kansas City Royals 1995–1996; Baltimore Orioles 1999; Toronto Blue Jays 2003
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.0 |
| 1993 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.8 |
| 1994 | 32 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1996 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 2003 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 23 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 24.0 | 8.63 | 2.000 | 6.00 | 6.29 | 155.3 | 47.0 | -1.0 |
| 1993 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 30 | 23 | 23 | 8 | 36.7 | 7.36 | 1.882 | 5.65 | 6.55 | 147.5 | 60.2 | -0.8 |
| 1994 | 32 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 25 | 20 | 29 | 4 | 50.3 | 4.47 | 1.868 | 5.19 | 4.14 | 99.3 | 93.2 | 0.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 22.3 | 7.25 | 1.433 | 5.24 | 5.92 | 125.6 | 64.9 | -0.4 |
| 1996 | 21 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 58 | 26 | 87 | 13 | 104.0 | 5.02 | 1.317 | 7.53 | 4.18 | 83.9 | 99.3 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 39 | 25 | 31 | 14 | 59.0 | 5.95 | 1.593 | 4.73 | 6.61 | 140.7 | 78.9 | -0.2 |
| 2003 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 9.0 | 3.00 | 1.222 | 7.00 | 5.76 | 123.2 | 155.8 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994-04-08 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994-04-10 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994-04-14 | CHC @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994-04-18 | NYM @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994-04-20 | NYM @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-08-31 | KC @ DET Gameday | 6.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| 1996-07-20 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 1996-06-13 | BAL @ KC Gameday | 6.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 1996-07-04 | KC @ MIN Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1996-05-26 | TEX @ KC Gameday | 5.1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 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.