John Axford

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 234 lb

BornApril 1, 1983 · Simcoe, ON, CAN

MLB debutSeptember 15, 2009

Final gameAugust 2, 2021

Seasons11 (2009–2021)

Milwaukee Brewers 2009–2013; St. Louis Cardinals 2013; Cleveland Indians 2014; Pittsburgh Pirates 2014; Colorado Rockies 2015; Oakland Athletics 2016–2017; Los Angeles Dodgers 2018; Toronto Blue Jays 2018; Milwaukee Brewers 2021

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

6.3

81.8

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

Season	G	PA	AB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2009	7	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
2010	50	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2011	74	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
2012	75	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.5	-100.0	.000	0.2
2013	75	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2014	62	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2015	60	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
2016	68	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
2017	22	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2018	50	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2021	1	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2009	7	0	0	0	1	5	3	6	9	0	7.7	3.52	1.435	10.57	3.06	74.3	116.7	0.1
2010	50	0	8	2	24	42	16	27	76	1	58.0	2.48	1.190	11.79	2.16	54.1	160.7	1.6
2011	74	0	2	2	46	59	16	25	86	4	73.7	1.95	1.140	10.51	2.38	60.8	200.7	2.5
2012	75	0	5	8	35	61	36	39	93	10	69.3	4.67	1.442	12.07	4.10	99.6	88.1	0.2
2013	75	0	7	7	0	73	29	26	65	10	65.0	4.02	1.523	9.00	4.31	111.8	95.8	0.5
2014	62	0	2	4	10	43	24	36	63	6	54.7	3.95	1.445	10.37	4.36	114.1	96.2	0.4
2015	60	0	4	5	25	56	26	32	62	4	55.7	4.20	1.581	10.02	3.59	79.0	108.2	0.8
2016	68	0	6	4	3	65	29	30	60	6	65.7	3.97	1.447	8.22	3.97	96.2	103.9	0.8
2017	22	0	0	1	0	27	15	17	21	3	21.0	6.43	2.095	9.00	5.71	135.0	65.8	-0.3
2018	50	1	4	1	0	52	32	22	54	6	54.7	5.27	1.354	8.89	4.02	95.5	79.8	-0.1
2021	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0.3	54.00	9.000	0.00	21.13	504.5	7.8	-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

544

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

544

348th-most career G (P)

144

96th-most career SV

SHO

526

SO (P)

589

BB allowed

261

ERA

3.904

WHIP

1.4192

K/9

10.08

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
2009-09-15	MIL @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2009-09-21	CHC @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2009-09-22	CHC @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2009-09-24	PHI @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2009-09-30	MIL @ COL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	BB	SO
2016-06-04	ATH @ HOU Gameday	2.0	0	1	5
2010-08-21	SD @ MIL Gameday	1.2	1	0	4
2018-07-28	TOR @ CWS Gameday	3.0	1	0	3
2011-09-13	COL @ MIL Gameday	2.0	1	0	3
2012-07-25	MIL @ PHI Gameday	2.0	0	0	3

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.