John Bowker
San Francisco Giants 2008–2009; Pittsburgh Pirates 2010; San Francisco Giants 2010; Philadelphia Phillies 2011; Pittsburgh Pirates 2011
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 111 | 350 | 326 | 31 | 83 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 43 | 19 | 74 | 1 | 1 | .255 | .300 | .408 | .708 | 80.8 | 83.1 | .313 | -0.4 |
| 2009 | 31 | 73 | 67 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .194 | .247 | .373 | .620 | 54.6 | 60.7 | .274 | -0.3 |
| 2010 | 67 | 167 | 151 | 16 | 33 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 14 | 33 | 0 | 1 | .219 | .281 | .371 | .652 | 70.8 | 76.0 | .287 | -0.3 |
| 2011 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 1 | .133 | .188 | .167 | .354 | -21.8 | 0.1 | .153 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-16 | DET @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2010-09-18 | AZ @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 2010-09-22 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 2008-09-24 | COL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2009-09-24 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 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.