MLB / Players

Jonathan Papelbon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 230 lb

BornNovember 23, 1980 · Baton Rouge, LA, USA

MLB debutJuly 31, 2005

Final gameAugust 6, 2016

Seasons12 (2005–2016)

Boston Red Sox 2005–2011; Philadelphia Phillies 2012–2015; Washington Nationals 2015–2016

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

22.0

94.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2005	17	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2006	59	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.5
2007	59	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
2008	67	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
2009	66	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
2010	65	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2011	63	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
2012	70	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2013	61	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2014	66	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2015	59	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2016	37	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2005	17	3	3	1	0	33	10	17	34	4	34.0	2.65	1.471	9.00	4.35	97.4	168.5	1.0
2006	59	0	4	2	35	40	7	13	75	3	68.3	0.92	.776	9.88	2.18	46.4	509.1	3.5
2007	59	0	1	3	37	30	12	15	84	5	58.3	1.85	.771	12.96	2.52	54.1	251.9	2.4
2008	67	0	5	4	41	58	18	8	77	4	69.3	2.34	.952	10.00	2.04	45.1	193.2	2.4
2009	66	0	1	1	38	54	14	24	76	5	68.0	1.85	1.147	10.06	3.10	67.6	247.4	2.7
2010	65	0	5	7	37	57	29	28	76	7	67.0	3.90	1.269	10.21	3.48	81.0	110.3	1.0
2011	63	0	4	1	31	50	21	10	87	3	64.3	2.94	.933	12.17	1.57	36.5	146.5	1.7
2012	70	0	5	6	38	56	19	18	92	8	70.0	2.44	1.057	11.83	2.94	73.5	163.5	2.0
2013	61	0	5	1	29	59	20	11	57	6	61.7	2.92	1.135	8.32	3.02	80.8	128.0	1.2
2014	66	0	2	3	39	45	15	15	63	2	66.3	2.04	.905	8.55	2.50	67.6	181.7	2.0
2015	59	0	4	3	24	53	15	12	56	7	63.3	2.13	1.026	7.96	3.73	96.5	180.9	1.9
2016	37	0	2	4	19	37	17	14	31	3	35.0	4.37	1.457	7.97	3.73	89.1	95.7	0.3

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

689

RBI

Pitching

G (P)

689

138th-most career G (P)

368

11th-most career SV

SHO

726

SO (P)

808

BB allowed

185

ERA

2.443

WHIP

1.0432

K/9

10.02

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
2006-05-19	BOS @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2006-06-16	BOS @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2006-06-17	BOS @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2006-06-18	BOS @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2006-07-02	BOS @ MIA Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2005-07-31	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5.1	4	3	2	5	7	2
2005-08-16	BOS @ DET Gameday	5.0	6	2	2	2	6	0
2006-08-20	NYY @ BOS Gameday	2.0	2	1	1	1	5	0
2006-06-24	PHI @ BOS Gameday	2.1	2	0	0	1	4	0
2011-09-25	BOS @ NYY Gameday	2.1	0	0	0	0	4	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.

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.