MLB / Players

Jeff Kaiser

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb
BornJuly 24, 1960 · Wyandotte, MI, USA
MLB debutApril 11, 1985
Final gameMay 17, 1993
Seasons7 (1985–1993)

Oakland Athletics 1985; Cleveland Indians 1987–1990; Detroit Tigers 1991; Cincinnati Reds 1993; New York Mets 1993

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
-2.5
0.8

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
198515000000000000-1.8
19872000000000000-0.4
198830000000000000.2
19896000000000000-0.1
199050000000000000.2
199110000000000000-0.2
19939000000000000-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19851500000025272010616.714.582.7005.4010.00255.126.9-1.8
19872000000463213.316.202.1005.409.17202.628.0-0.4
19883000000201002.70.001.1250.003.9596.60.2
19896001000535413.77.362.7279.828.31210.653.6-0.1
1990500000016579212.73.551.8166.395.10130.4110.00.2
199110001200655415.09.002.2007.206.91165.446.4-0.2
199390000001075918.07.881.87510.134.23105.750.9-0.3

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

G
50
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
50
GS
0
W
0
L
2
SV
2
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
52
SO (P)
38
BB allowed
46
ERA
9.173
WHIP
2.1923
K/9
6.58

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1993-04-13CIN @ PHI Gameday000000000
1993-04-14CIN @ PHI Gameday000000000
1993-04-22CIN @ PIT Gameday000000000
1993-04-29NYM @ SF Gameday000000000
1993-05-01NYM @ SD Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1990-07-06ATH @ CLE Gameday3.2411040
1989-09-09TOR @ CLE Gameday2.2120340
1985-04-11ATH @ SEA Gameday3.1655533
1987-08-02CLE @ TOR Gameday2.2233021
1990-06-29LAA @ CLE Gameday2.1422221

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.