Jeff Liefer
Chicago White Sox 1999–2002; Montreal Expos 2003; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2003; Milwaukee Brewers 2004; Cleveland Indians 2005
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 45 | 122 | 113 | 8 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 28 | 2 | 0 | .248 | .295 | .327 | .623 | 58.2 | 59.2 | .282 | -0.5 |
| 2000 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .182 | .364 | -18.3 | -7.8 | .164 | -0.2 |
| 2001 | 83 | 279 | 254 | 36 | 65 | 13 | 0 | 18 | 39 | 20 | 69 | 0 | 1 | .256 | .313 | .520 | .833 | 109.8 | 111.4 | .354 | 0.9 |
| 2002 | 76 | 224 | 204 | 28 | 47 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 26 | 19 | 60 | 0 | 0 | .230 | .295 | .373 | .667 | 72.7 | 75.0 | .293 | -0.5 |
| 2003 | 44 | 120 | 113 | 10 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 6 | 39 | 0 | 1 | .177 | .217 | .319 | .535 | 26.6 | 36.5 | .232 | -0.9 |
| 2004 | 16 | 31 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .258 | .393 | .651 | 58.3 | 64.8 | .281 | -0.1 |
| 2005 | 19 | 57 | 56 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .211 | .286 | .496 | 26.6 | 32.6 | .217 | -0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-07-03 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2001-08-21 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2003-04-06 | WSH @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2001-09-04 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2002-08-11 | SEA @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
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.