James Paxton
Seattle Mariners 2013–2018; New York Yankees 2019–2020; Seattle Mariners 2021; Boston Red Sox 2023–2024; Los Angeles Dodgers 2024
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 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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 136.2 | 61.1 | .362 | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 2.7 | -20.9 | .178 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3.2 |
| 2018 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.2 |
| 2019 | 29 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -118.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 2 | 24.0 | 1.50 | .917 | 7.88 | 3.28 | 88.0 | 248.9 | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 25 | 29 | 59 | 3 | 74.0 | 3.04 | 1.203 | 7.18 | 3.31 | 90.2 | 120.7 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 29 | 29 | 56 | 8 | 67.0 | 3.90 | 1.433 | 7.52 | 4.28 | 111.8 | 98.4 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 134 | 51 | 24 | 117 | 9 | 121.0 | 3.79 | 1.306 | 8.70 | 2.76 | 68.0 | 107.0 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 24 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 113 | 45 | 37 | 156 | 9 | 136.0 | 2.98 | 1.103 | 10.32 | 2.59 | 61.6 | 141.0 | 3.2 |
| 2018 | 28 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 134 | 67 | 42 | 208 | 23 | 160.3 | 3.76 | 1.098 | 11.68 | 3.27 | 79.6 | 109.3 | 2.2 |
| 2019 | 29 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 | 64 | 55 | 186 | 23 | 150.7 | 3.82 | 1.281 | 11.11 | 3.91 | 85.4 | 119.7 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 26 | 4 | 20.3 | 6.64 | 1.475 | 11.51 | 4.35 | 101.0 | 64.8 | -0.3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.3 | 6.75 | .750 | 13.50 | 2.46 | 59.4 | 61.4 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 48 | 33 | 101 | 18 | 96.0 | 4.50 | 1.313 | 9.47 | 4.68 | 104.9 | 99.1 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 21 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 49 | 50 | 73 | 12 | 100.3 | 4.40 | 1.445 | 6.55 | 4.85 | 117.4 | 93.9 | 0.7 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-02 | NYY @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013-09-14 | SEA @ STL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-08-20 | SEA @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015-04-13 | SEA @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016-06-01 | SEA @ SD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-02 | ATH @ SEA Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 0 |
| 2019-04-16 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 2019-09-03 | TEX @ NYY Gameday | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 2019-04-21 | KC @ NYY Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 2018-07-01 | KC @ SEA Gameday | 8.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 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.