John Thomson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 1, 1973 · Vicksburg, MS, USA

MLB debutMay 11, 1997

Final gameJuly 1, 2007

Seasons10 (1997–2007)

Colorado Rockies 1997–1999; Colorado Rockies 2001–2002; New York Mets 2002; Texas Rangers 2003; Atlanta Braves 2004–2006; Kansas City Royals 2007

Percentile snapshot

2004 season — qualified pitchers

46.6

56.8

61.4

SHO

210

38.6

72.7

78.4

133

68.2

198.3

48.9

ERA

3.72

70.5

WHIP

1.321

56.8

K/9

6.04

FIP

3.80

76.1

FIP-

88.4

73.9

ERA+

115.5

64.8

sWAR

3.3

65.9

of 89 qualified 2004 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.1

46.7

sWAR

14.6

90.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1997	27	55	47	2	10	0	0	5	2	23	0	.213	.245	.213	.458	-4.0	10.9	.216	2.4
1998	26	63	50	4	6	0	0	2	2	23	1	.120	.148	.120	.268	-60.3	-34.1	.128	1.8
1999	14	20	18	1	3	1	0	1	2	7	0	.167	.250	.222	.472	-2.4	9.0	.228	-0.9
2001	14	36	29	3	7	0	1	1	1	15	0	.241	.267	.310	.577	24.4	35.4	.258	2.4
2002	30	62	52	4	11	0	0	3	3	19	0	.212	.250	.212	.462	8.3	19.5	.218	1.5
2003	35	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.2	-100.0	.000	2.3
2004	33	76	66	3	13	1	0	4	0	24	0	.197	.197	.212	.409	-5.9	6.5	.183	3.3
2005	17	36	25	2	5	2	0	2	2	12	0	.200	.259	.280	.539	38.6	42.0	.249	0.8
2006	18	32	30	1	8	2	0	4	0	10	0	.267	.267	.333	.600	48.8	53.9	.264	0.7
2007	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1997	27	27	7	9	2	1	193	87	51	106	15	166.3	4.71	1.467	5.74	3.98	78.6	107.5	2.4
1998	26	26	8	11	2	0	174	86	49	106	21	161.0	4.81	1.385	5.93	4.40	87.0	105.2	1.8
1999	14	13	1	10	1	0	85	56	36	34	11	62.7	8.04	1.931	4.88	6.04	106.8	70.3	-0.9
2001	14	14	4	5	1	1	84	42	25	68	15	93.7	4.04	1.164	6.53	4.57	86.3	131.1	2.4
2002	30	30	9	14	0	0	201	95	44	107	28	181.7	4.71	1.349	5.30	4.46	99.2	96.1	1.5
2003	35	35	13	14	3	1	234	117	49	136	27	217.0	4.85	1.304	5.64	4.19	85.0	101.6	2.3
2004	33	33	14	8	0	0	210	82	52	133	20	198.3	3.72	1.321	6.04	3.80	88.4	115.5	3.3
2005	17	17	4	6	1	0	111	49	28	61	6	98.7	4.47	1.409	5.56	3.46	81.8	94.6	0.8
2006	18	15	2	7	0	0	93	43	32	46	11	80.3	4.82	1.556	5.15	5.01	112.7	92.3	0.7
2007	2	2	1	1	0	0	13	4	3	3	0	10.7	3.38	1.500	2.53	3.59	78.5	135.5	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

216

381

318

RBI

133

.1981

OBP

.2252

SLG

.2233

OPS

.4485

Pitching

G (P)

216

212

SHO

1,270

SO (P)

800

BB allowed

369

ERA

4.683

WHIP

1.3910

K/9

5.67

456th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
2001-09-30	MIL @ COL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	5
1997-06-01	COL @ MIA Gameday	4	0	4	0	0	3	4
2006-04-10	PHI @ ATL Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	2	3
2004-07-18	WSH @ ATL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	2
2002-07-06	SD @ COL Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2001-10-07	COL @ SD Gameday	7.0	7	3	3	0	12	0
1998-06-04	AZ @ COL Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	1	11	1
2001-09-30	MIL @ COL Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	3	9	0
2003-05-18	TEX @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	5	9	0
2003-07-17	TEX @ TB Gameday	7.2	7	3	3	0	9	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.