John Bale
Toronto Blue Jays 1999–2000; Baltimore Orioles 2001; Cincinnati Reds 2003; Kansas City Royals 2007–2009
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 2001 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .118 | .118 | .235 | -56.0 | -37.9 | .106 | 0.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2.0 | 13.50 | 2.000 | 18.00 | 8.70 | 177.5 | 36.3 | -0.2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3.7 | 14.73 | 2.182 | 14.73 | 7.59 | 151.2 | 34.1 | -0.3 |
| 2001 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 17 | 21 | 2 | 26.7 | 3.04 | 1.313 | 7.09 | 4.52 | 107.9 | 138.0 | 0.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 23 | 12 | 37 | 7 | 46.3 | 4.47 | 1.338 | 7.19 | 4.25 | 99.9 | 95.3 | 0.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 18 | 17 | 42 | 1 | 40.0 | 4.05 | 1.550 | 9.45 | 2.89 | 63.1 | 112.9 | 0.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 26.7 | 4.39 | 1.313 | 4.73 | 3.28 | 74.8 | 99.8 | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 18 | 18 | 24 | 3 | 28.3 | 5.72 | 1.835 | 7.62 | 4.84 | 108.0 | 78.4 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-09-03 | CIN @ MIL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003-09-13 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003-08-03 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003-08-08 | CIN @ SD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003-08-13 | AZ @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-08-13 | AZ @ CIN Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 2007-09-09 | NYY @ KC Gameday | 3.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 2003-08-19 | CIN @ AZ Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 2003-09-03 | CIN @ MIL Gameday | 5.0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 2007-08-24 | CLE @ KC Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 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.