Grant Balfour

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornDecember 30, 1977 · Sydney, NSW, Australia

MLB debutJuly 22, 2001

Final gameApril 18, 2015

Seasons12 (2001–2015)

Minnesota Twins 2001; Minnesota Twins 2003–2004; Milwaukee Brewers 2007; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2007; Tampa Bay Rays 2008–2010; Oakland Athletics 2011–2013; Tampa Bay Rays 2014–2015

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

9.2

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
2001	2	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2003	17	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2004	36	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2007	25	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6
2008	51	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.7	-100.0	.000	2.3
2009	73	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
2010	57	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2011	62	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
2012	75	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.5	-100.0	.000	2.0
2013	65	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2014	65	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2015	6	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2001	2	0	0	0	0	3	4	3	2	2	2.7	13.50	2.250	6.75	14.72	323.6	33.7	-0.2
2003	17	1	1	0	0	23	12	14	30	4	26.0	4.15	1.423	10.38	4.40	96.1	110.2	0.4
2004	36	0	4	1	0	35	19	21	42	4	39.3	4.35	1.424	9.61	4.10	87.3	108.0	0.5
2007	25	0	1	2	0	30	21	20	30	2	24.7	7.66	2.027	10.95	4.47	100.9	57.9	-0.6
2008	51	0	6	2	4	28	10	24	82	3	58.3	1.54	.891	12.65	2.25	53.0	275.6	2.3
2009	73	0	5	4	4	59	36	33	69	6	67.3	4.81	1.366	9.22	3.81	88.4	89.7	0.3
2010	57	0	2	1	0	43	14	17	56	3	55.3	2.28	1.084	9.11	2.65	67.4	172.6	1.6
2011	62	0	5	2	2	44	17	20	59	8	62.0	2.47	1.032	8.56	3.80	96.0	160.6	1.7
2012	75	0	3	2	24	41	21	28	72	4	74.7	2.53	.924	8.68	2.98	75.8	155.2	2.0
2013	65	0	1	3	38	48	18	27	72	7	62.7	2.59	1.197	10.34	3.52	90.7	150.2	1.6
2014	65	0	2	6	12	49	34	41	57	3	62.3	4.91	1.444	8.23	3.98	105.6	76.8	-0.2
2015	6	0	0	0	0	3	3	4	0	1	4.3	6.23	1.615	0.00	9.57	243.2	63.1	-0.1

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

534

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

534

368th-most career G (P)

215th-most career SV

SHO

540

SO (P)

571

BB allowed

252

ERA

3.485

WHIP

1.2193

K/9

9.52

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
2004-06-15	MIN @ WSH Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2004-06-17	MIN @ WSH Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2004-06-18	MIN @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2004-07-03	MIN @ AZ Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007-07-18	AZ @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2003-07-03	CLE @ MIN Gameday	2.1	2	1	1	1	5	1
2004-07-03	MIN @ AZ Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	5	0
2003-08-23	KC @ MIN Gameday	4.0	2	0	0	0	4	0
2003-07-05	CLE @ MIN Gameday	2.0	1	1	1	0	4	1
2007-08-29	TB @ BAL Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	2	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

1× 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.