MLB / Players

Glen Perkins

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb

BornMarch 2, 1983 · St. Paul, MN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 2006

Final gameSeptember 30, 2017

Seasons12 (2006–2017)

Minnesota Twins 2006–2017

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

8.5

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2006	4	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
2007	19	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2008	26	4	3	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.7	-100.0	.000	1.2
2009	18	3	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.6	-100.0	.000	-0.6
2010	13	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2011	65	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
2012	70	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2013	61	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2014	63	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
2015	60	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
2016	2	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2017	8	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2006	4	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	6	0	5.7	1.59	.529	9.53	1.07	23.9	281.9	0.2
2007	19	0	0	0	0	23	10	12	20	2	28.7	3.14	1.221	6.28	4.29	98.6	138.5	0.7
2008	26	26	12	4	0	183	74	39	74	25	151.0	4.41	1.470	4.41	5.17	121.6	96.4	1.2
2009	18	17	6	7	0	120	63	23	45	13	96.3	5.89	1.484	4.20	4.71	106.7	75.0	-0.6
2010	13	1	1	1	0	29	14	5	14	3	21.7	5.82	1.569	5.82	4.80	116.3	71.0	-0.2
2011	65	0	4	4	2	55	17	21	65	2	61.7	2.48	1.232	9.49	2.45	60.4	163.1	1.7
2012	70	0	3	1	16	57	20	16	78	8	70.3	2.56	1.038	9.98	3.12	76.5	159.2	1.9
2013	61	0	2	0	36	43	16	15	77	5	62.7	2.30	.926	11.06	2.52	61.7	177.4	1.9
2014	63	0	4	3	34	62	25	11	66	7	61.7	3.65	1.184	9.63	3.13	80.7	106.2	0.8
2015	60	0	3	5	32	58	21	10	54	9	57.0	3.32	1.193	8.53	3.79	92.8	123.1	1.1
2016	2	0	0	0	0	5	2	1	3	0	2.0	9.00	3.000	13.50	1.61	37.6	47.4	-0.1
2017	8	0	0	0	0	8	6	5	2	0	5.7	9.53	2.294	3.18	6.67	150.2	46.6	-0.3

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

409

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

409

120

132nd-most career SV

SHO

624

SO (P)

504

BB allowed

158

ERA

3.878

WHIP

1.2878

K/9

7.27

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
2008-06-14	MIN @ MIL Gameday	2
2008-06-25	MIN @ SD Gameday	1
2009-06-26	MIN @ STL Gameday	1
2011-05-20	MIN @ AZ Gameday	0
2011-05-21	MIN @ AZ Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2008-06-30	DET @ MIN Gameday	6.1	7	2	2	1	7	1
2008-05-15	TOR @ MIN Gameday	6.0	5	2	2	2	6	0
2008-06-14	MIN @ MIL Gameday	6.0	8	3	3	1	6	1
2006-09-29	CWS @ MIN Gameday	3.2	1	1	1	0	5	0
2008-08-11	NYY @ MIN Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	3	4	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.

Honors

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.