MLB / Players

Homer Bailey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 223 lb

BornMay 3, 1986 · La Grange, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 8, 2007

Final gameSeptember 22, 2020

Seasons14 (2007–2020)

Cincinnati Reds 2007–2018; Kansas City Royals 2019; Oakland Athletics 2019; Minnesota Twins 2020

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified pitchers

18.3

23.3

53.3

SHO

162

61.7

46.7

149

73.3

163.3

ERA

4.57

11.7

WHIP

1.316

K/9

8.21

FIP

4.15

46.7

FIP-

90.9

48.3

ERA+

99.6

sWAR

1.6

11.7

of 61 qualified 2019 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

89.8

6.2

sWAR

6.7

82.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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
2007	9	12	11	3	3	1	2	0	5	.273	.273	.364	.636	53.9	60.0	.279	0.0
2008	8	12	10	0	1	1	0	0	5	.100	.100	.200	.300	-45.4	-24.3	.128	-1.1
2009	22	43	38	0	3	0	2	0	17	.079	.079	.079	.158	-84.0	-58.1	.072	0.5
2010	19	39	33	1	7	0	2	2	15	.212	.257	.212	.469	24.1	28.2	.223	0.7
2011	23	45	39	7	11	2	2	1	11	.282	.300	.333	.633	69.4	72.5	.287	0.8
2012	34	76	70	1	8	1	5	1	29	.114	.127	.129	.255	-51.1	-30.9	.117	2.8
2013	32	73	58	3	9	1	1	3	18	.155	.210	.172	.382	-2.3	7.6	.185	2.9
2014	23	51	41	3	6	0	3	2	18	.146	.186	.146	.332	-19.0	-5.3	.160	1.4
2015	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.5	-100.0	.000	-0.2
2016	6	11	10	0	1	0	0	1	1	.100	.182	.100	.282	-28.1	-22.0	.147	-0.4
2017	18	35	28	4	7	2	0	0	11	.250	.250	.321	.571	39.6	47.2	.248	-1.0
2018	20	34	26	0	3	0	0	1	13	.115	.148	.115	.264	-42.1	-27.8	.126	-1.4
2019	31	5	5	0	2	0	1	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	119.7	120.8	.347	1.6
2020	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2007	9	9	4	2	0	0	43	29	28	28	3	45.3	5.76	1.566	5.56	4.85	105.3	80.1	0.0
2008	8	8	0	6	0	0	59	32	17	18	8	36.3	7.93	2.092	4.46	6.38	145.7	55.3	-1.1
2009	20	20	8	5	0	0	115	57	52	86	12	113.3	4.53	1.474	6.83	4.37	103.4	93.4	0.5
2010	19	19	4	3	1	1	109	54	40	100	11	109.0	4.46	1.367	8.26	3.77	92.7	91.2	0.7
2011	22	22	9	7	0	0	136	65	33	106	18	132.0	4.43	1.280	7.23	4.02	102.8	88.3	0.8
2012	33	33	13	10	2	1	206	85	52	168	26	208.0	3.68	1.240	7.27	4.01	99.1	110.1	2.8
2013	32	32	11	12	2	1	181	81	54	199	20	209.0	3.49	1.124	8.57	3.28	87.1	108.0	2.9
2014	23	23	9	5	1	1	134	60	45	124	16	145.7	3.71	1.229	7.66	3.90	105.4	99.8	1.4
2015	2	2	0	1	0	0	16	7	4	3	3	11.3	5.56	1.765	2.38	7.13	180.8	71.0	-0.2
2016	6	6	2	3	0	0	35	17	7	27	2	23.0	6.65	1.826	10.57	3.14	74.2	63.7	-0.4
2017	18	18	6	9	0	0	112	65	42	67	11	91.0	6.43	1.692	6.63	4.92	111.5	68.7	-1.0
2018	20	20	1	14	1	0	141	72	33	75	23	106.3	6.09	1.636	6.35	5.51	133.7	67.7	-1.4
2019	31	31	13	9	0	0	162	83	53	149	21	163.3	4.57	1.316	8.21	4.15	90.9	99.6	1.6
2020	2	2	1	0	0	0	6	3	3	7	1	8.0	3.38	1.125	7.88	4.54	103.7	129.7	0.2

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

249

440

373

RBI

145

.1635

OBP

.1896

SLG

.1850

OPS

.3746

Pitching

G (P)

245

SHO

1,402

SO (P)

1,157

428th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

463

ERA

4.559

WHIP

1.3684

K/9

7.43

151st-highest career K/9

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
2011-09-20	HOU @ CIN Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	3
2011-08-24	CIN @ MIA Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	3
2017-07-09	CIN @ AZ Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	3
2012-05-29	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2
2013-08-28	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2013-07-21	PIT @ CIN Gameday	6.1	7	3	3	1	12	1
2019-09-18	KC @ ATH Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	1	11	0
2016-08-12	CIN @ MIL Gameday	6.0	3	0	0	1	11	0
2012-09-28	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	1	10	0
2013-05-14	CIN @ MIA Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	0	10	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.