Esteban German
Oakland Athletics 2002–2004; Texas Rangers 2005; Kansas City Royals 2006–2008; Texas Rangers 2009–2011
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 9 | 40 | 35 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .300 | .200 | .500 | 45.7 | 38.7 | .247 | -0.1 |
| 2003 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 27.3 | 33.3 | .224 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 31 | 65 | 60 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .297 | .300 | .597 | 58.0 | 57.5 | .273 | -0.1 |
| 2005 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .750 | .750 | 1.000 | 1.750 | 383.4 | 351.5 | .762 | 0.1 |
| 2006 | 106 | 331 | 279 | 44 | 91 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 34 | 40 | 49 | 7 | 3 | .326 | .422 | .459 | .880 | 134.2 | 126.5 | .396 | 2.3 |
| 2007 | 121 | 405 | 348 | 49 | 92 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 37 | 43 | 60 | 11 | 7 | .264 | .351 | .376 | .727 | 95.4 | 91.3 | .333 | 1.3 |
| 2008 | 89 | 242 | 216 | 30 | 53 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 18 | 42 | 7 | 3 | .245 | .303 | .338 | .640 | 68.4 | 69.8 | .289 | -0.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | 50 | 46 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .304 | .360 | .391 | .751 | 97.5 | 94.5 | .338 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .231 | .375 | .231 | .606 | 78.5 | 65.5 | .307 | -0.1 |
| 2011 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .455 | .462 | .818 | 1.280 | 226.1 | 230.1 | .516 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-09-12 | KC @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2009-09-09 | TEX @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2006-09-14 | SEA @ KC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2008-08-02 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2006-05-25 | DET @ KC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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.