MLB / Players

Heath Bell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 235 lb

BornSeptember 29, 1977 · Oceanside, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 24, 2004

Final gameMay 3, 2014

Seasons11 (2004–2014)

New York Mets 2004–2006; San Diego Padres 2007–2011; Miami Marlins 2012; Arizona Diamondbacks 2013; Tampa Bay Rays 2014

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

9.3

86.1

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
2004	17	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.2	-100.0	.000	0.5
2005	42	3	3	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.9	-100.0	.000	-0.3
2006	22	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.1	-100.0	.000	0.1
2007	81	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
2008	74	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
2009	68	1	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2010	67	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.1	-100.0	.000	2.2
2011	64	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
2012	73	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2013	69	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2014	13	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2004	17	0	2	0	22	9	6	27	5	24.3	3.33	1.151	9.99	4.15	97.5	127.7	0.5
2005	42	1	3	0	56	29	13	43	3	46.7	5.59	1.479	8.29	2.88	69.7	74.0	-0.3
2006	22	0	0	0	51	21	11	35	6	37.0	5.11	1.676	8.51	4.22	96.6	85.5	0.1
2007	81	6	4	2	60	21	30	102	3	93.7	2.02	.961	9.80	2.44	59.4	203.7	3.1
2008	74	6	6	0	66	31	28	71	5	78.0	3.58	1.205	8.19	3.31	84.4	109.6	1.1
2009	68	6	4	42	54	21	24	79	3	69.7	2.71	1.120	10.21	2.38	61.3	143.3	1.6
2010	67	6	1	47	56	15	28	86	1	70.0	1.93	1.200	11.06	2.08	55.5	194.2	2.2
2011	64	3	4	43	51	17	21	51	4	62.7	2.44	1.149	7.32	3.20	88.7	147.9	1.5
2012	73	4	5	19	70	36	29	59	5	63.7	5.09	1.555	8.34	3.77	95.2	77.7	-0.2
2013	69	5	2	15	74	30	16	72	12	65.7	4.11	1.371	9.87	4.07	105.1	94.2	0.5
2014	13	1	1	0	24	14	8	12	1	17.3	7.27	1.846	6.23	4.60	122.2	51.8	-0.6

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

590

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

590

259th-most career G (P)

168

79th-most career SV

SHO

629

SO (P)

637

BB allowed

214

ERA

3.493

WHIP

1.2694

K/9

9.12

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
2004-08-24	SD @ NYM Gameday	0
2004-08-30	MIA @ NYM Gameday	0
2004-09-01	MIA @ NYM Gameday	0
2004-09-03	NYM @ PHI Gameday	1
2004-09-07	NYM @ MIA Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2004-09-03	NYM @ PHI Gameday	3.0	3	2	2	0	6	2
2007-10-01	SD @ COL Gameday	2.2	0	0	0	2	5	0
2006-09-11	NYM @ MIA Gameday	2.1	7	5	5	0	5	2
2005-05-26	NYM @ MIA Gameday	2.0	2	0	0	0	5	0
2008-06-14	SD @ CLE Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	0	5	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.