MLB / Players

Garrett Stephenson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 2, 1972 · Takoma Park, MD, USA

MLB debutJuly 25, 1996

Final gameSeptember 17, 2003

Seasons7 (1996–2003)

Baltimore Orioles 1996; Philadelphia Phillies 1997–1998; St. Louis Cardinals 1999–2000; St. Louis Cardinals 2002–2003

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified pitchers

27.5

4.4

3.3

15.4

19.8

SHO

167

92.3

53.8

49.5

8.8

174.3

8.8

ERA

4.59

23.1

WHIP

1.302

51.6

K/9

4.70

12.1

FIP

5.43

2.2

FIP-

131.0

2.2

ERA+

90.1

14.3

sWAR

1.0

16.5

of 92 qualified 2003 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.7

78.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1996	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1997	20	38	32	0	3	1	1	1	16	.094	.121	.125	.246	-50.1	-35.3	.116	2.5
1998	6	8	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	.167	.286	.167	.452	28.2	22.3	.235	-1.0
1999	18	30	27	1	2	1	0	0	5	.074	.074	.111	.185	-72.9	-54.0	.080	1.0
2000	32	76	59	0	3	0	4	4	23	.051	.111	.051	.162	-65.7	-56.9	.090	1.9
2002	12	15	12	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.077	.000	.077	-89.9	-77.1	.057	-0.4
2003	32	55	44	0	9	0	2	3	18	.205	.271	.205	.475	29.8	29.2	.231	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1996	3	0	0	1	0	0	13	9	3	3	1	6.3	12.79	2.526	4.26	6.25	127.1	38.5	-0.4
1997	20	18	8	6	2	0	104	41	38	81	11	117.0	3.15	1.214	6.23	3.96	93.6	134.2	2.5
1998	6	6	0	2	0	0	31	23	19	17	3	23.0	9.00	2.174	6.65	5.76	133.4	48.0	-1.0
1999	18	12	6	3	0	0	90	40	29	59	11	85.3	4.22	1.395	6.22	4.56	99.5	108.7	1.0
2000	32	31	16	9	3	2	209	100	63	123	31	200.3	4.49	1.358	5.53	4.89	105.5	103.2	1.9
2002	12	10	2	5	0	0	48	27	25	34	4	45.0	5.40	1.622	6.80	4.52	112.6	74.3	-0.4
2003	32	27	7	13	1	0	167	89	60	91	30	174.3	4.59	1.302	4.70	5.43	131.0	90.1	1.0

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

123

222

180

RBI

.1000

OBP

.1518

SLG

.1111

OPS

.2629

Pitching

G (P)

123

104

SHO

651

SO (P)

408

BB allowed

237

ERA

4.546

WHIP

1.3802

K/9

5.64

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	RBI	TB
1999-09-17	HOU @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	3
1997-06-22	ATL @ PHI Gameday	1	0	1	1	1	2
2000-06-21	SF @ STL Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	1
2000-08-21	PIT @ STL Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1
2000-09-11	STL @ PIT Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1997-05-13	STL @ PHI Gameday	7.0	2	2	2	2	12	2
2000-05-29	STL @ AZ Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	8	0
1999-08-06	STL @ PIT Gameday	7.0	3	1	1	0	8	0
1997-09-12	CIN @ PHI Gameday	6.1	7	2	2	3	8	0
2000-06-21	SF @ STL Gameday	7.1	5	3	3	1	7	1

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.