Joe Nathan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 230 lb

BornNovember 22, 1974 · Houston, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1999

Final gameSeptember 27, 2016

Seasons16 (1999–2016)

San Francisco Giants 1999–2000; San Francisco Giants 2002–2003; Minnesota Twins 2004–2009; Minnesota Twins 2011; Texas Rangers 2012–2013; Detroit Tigers 2014–2015; Chicago Cubs 2016; San Francisco Giants 2016

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

24.0

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1999	19	35	28	1	5	1	0	1	2	6	.179	.233	.214	.448	17.8	18.6	.212	1.1
2000	20	38	32	3	5	2	2	3	1	9	.156	.176	.406	.583	36.8	46.9	.240	0.2
2002	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
2003	78	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.2	-100.0	.000	1.9
2004	73	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.3	-100.0	.000	3.1
2005	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2006	64	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.5	-100.0	.000	2.8
2007	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
2008	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9
2009	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
2011	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2012	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2013	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
2014	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2015	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2016	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1999	19	14	7	4	1	84	42	46	54	17	90.3	4.18	1.439	5.38	5.89	137.6	102.2	1.1
2000	20	15	5	2	0	89	54	63	61	12	93.3	5.21	1.629	5.88	5.57	129.8	82.5	0.2
2002	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	3.7	0.00	.273	4.91	1.79	45.5	—	0.2
2003	78	0	12	4	0	51	26	33	83	7	79.0	2.96	1.063	9.46	3.39	80.4	142.5	1.9
2004	73	0	1	2	44	48	13	23	89	3	72.3	1.62	.982	11.07	2.27	48.4	290.2	3.1
2005	69	0	7	4	43	46	21	22	94	5	70.0	2.70	.971	12.09	2.24	51.1	162.2	2.0
2006	64	0	7	0	36	38	12	16	95	3	68.3	1.58	.790	12.51	1.73	38.5	283.3	2.8
2007	68	0	4	2	37	54	15	19	77	4	71.7	1.88	1.019	9.67	2.72	62.7	230.8	2.6
2008	68	0	1	2	39	43	10	18	74	5	67.7	1.33	.901	9.84	2.82	66.4	319.7	2.9
2009	70	0	2	2	47	42	16	22	89	7	68.7	2.10	.932	11.67	2.93	66.2	210.6	2.4
2011	48	0	2	1	14	38	24	14	43	7	44.7	4.84	1.164	8.66	4.32	106.6	83.7	0.0
2012	66	0	3	5	37	55	20	13	78	7	64.3	2.80	1.057	10.91	2.74	62.8	155.6	1.8
2013	67	0	6	2	43	36	10	22	73	2	64.7	1.39	.897	10.16	2.29	55.8	294.4	2.7
2014	62	0	5	4	35	60	31	29	54	5	58.0	4.81	1.534	8.38	3.97	103.7	79.6	-0.1
2015	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.3	0.00	.000	27.00	-2.90	-73.0	—	0.0
2016	10	0	2	0	0	5	0	4	9	0	6.3	0.00	1.421	12.79	2.24	55.2	—	0.4

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

787

RBI

.1587

OBP

.1940

SLG

.3016

OPS

.4956

Pitching

G (P)

787

62nd-most career G (P)

377

10th-most career SV

SHO

923

SO (P)

976

BB allowed

344

ERA

2.866

WHIP

1.1199

K/9

9.51

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2000-06-12	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
2000-06-29	SF @ COL Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	4
1999-08-16	WSH @ SF Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	2
1999-09-07	SF @ NYM Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
2000-04-12	LAD @ SF Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-04-06	SF @ MIA Gameday	7.0	3	1	1	3	9	1
1999-08-27	PIT @ SF Gameday	6.0	6	3	3	4	6	1
1999-04-28	SF @ WSH Gameday	8.0	7	2	2	1	5	0
2000-05-05	COL @ SF Gameday	7.0	2	0	0	3	5	0
2000-06-18	HOU @ SF Gameday	6.1	4	2	2	6	5	1

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

6× 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.