MLB / Players

Josh Beckett

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 230 lb

BornMay 15, 1980 · Spring, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 2001

Final gameAugust 3, 2014

Seasons14 (2001–2014)

Florida Marlins 2001–2005; Boston Red Sox 2006–2012; Los Angeles Dodgers 2012–2014

Percentile snapshot

2012 season — qualified pitchers

1.1

4.6

1.1

4.6

SHO

174

71.3

25.3

57.5

132

49.4

170.3

4.6

ERA

4.65

14.9

WHIP

1.327

28.7

K/9

6.97

39.1

FIP

4.13

32.2

FIP-

100.0

47.1

ERA+

88.8

18.4

sWAR

0.5

12.6

of 88 qualified 2012 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

110.8

73.8

sWAR

30.4

96.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2001	4	9	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.429	.714	81.9	84.3	.308	1.0
2002	23	36	31	0	1	1	0	0	0	21	.032	.032	.065	.097	-99.3	-74.8	.041	0.6
2003	24	52	46	3	7	2	0	3	1	14	.152	.170	.196	.366	-13.1	-2.7	.166	3.1
2004	26	55	44	2	7	1	0	2	2	18	.159	.196	.182	.377	-9.9	-0.9	.177	2.5
2005	29	71	59	5	9	3	1	6	7	17	.153	.239	.254	.493	30.3	32.6	.231	3.5
2006	33	7	7	2	3	0	1	3	0	2	.429	.429	.857	1.286	227.7	217.3	.540	1.6
2007	30	11	11	1	2	1	0	1	0	1	.182	.182	.273	.455	5.4	16.2	.198	5.1
2008	27	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.7	-100.0	.000	2.7
2009	32	5	5	1	1	0	1	1	0	3	.200	.200	.800	1.000	139.3	142.7	.399	3.9
2010	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.9
2011	30	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.7	-100.0	.000	5.0
2012	28	22	21	0	1	0	0	0	0	12	.048	.048	.048	.095	-97.6	-74.1	.042	0.5
2013	8	12	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	.125	.222	.125	.347	0.8	2.4	.182	-0.4
2014	20	43	39	4	7	3	0	2	1	14	.179	.200	.256	.456	19.0	29.8	.205	2.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2001	4	4	2	2	0	0	14	4	11	24	3	24.0	1.50	1.042	9.00	4.13	97.6	282.2	1.0
2002	23	21	6	7	0	0	93	49	44	113	13	107.7	4.10	1.272	9.45	3.60	90.8	96.8	0.6
2003	24	23	9	8	0	0	132	48	56	152	9	142.0	3.04	1.324	9.63	2.89	69.9	135.6	3.1
2004	26	26	9	9	1	1	137	66	54	152	16	156.7	3.79	1.219	8.73	3.49	81.2	113.4	2.5
2005	29	29	15	8	2	1	153	67	58	166	14	178.7	3.38	1.181	8.36	3.24	79.8	120.4	3.5
2006	33	33	16	11	0	0	191	114	74	158	36	204.7	5.01	1.295	6.95	5.16	110.0	93.6	1.6
2007	30	30	20	7	1	0	189	73	40	194	17	200.7	3.27	1.141	8.70	3.15	67.6	142.5	5.1
2008	27	27	12	10	1	0	173	78	34	172	18	174.3	4.03	1.187	8.88	3.27	72.5	112.1	2.7
2009	32	32	17	6	4	2	198	91	55	199	25	212.3	3.86	1.192	8.43	3.68	80.2	118.9	3.9
2010	21	21	6	6	0	0	151	82	45	116	20	127.7	5.78	1.535	8.18	4.51	105.0	74.3	-0.9
2011	30	30	13	7	1	1	146	62	52	175	21	193.0	2.89	1.026	8.16	3.61	83.9	148.9	5.0
2012	28	28	7	14	0	0	174	88	52	132	21	170.3	4.65	1.327	6.97	4.13	100.0	88.8	0.5
2013	8	8	0	5	1	0	50	25	15	41	8	43.3	5.19	1.500	8.52	4.64	129.8	68.8	-0.4
2014	20	20	6	6	1	1	96	37	39	107	17	115.7	2.88	1.167	8.33	4.30	122.1	122.5	2.2

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

335

289

RBI

110

.1419

OBP

.1755

SLG

.2145

OPS

.3900

Pitching

G (P)

335

332

250th-most career GS

138

325th-most career W

106

484th-most career L

SHO

2,051

428th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,901

110th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

629

496th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.879

WHIP

1.2316

260th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.34

77th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2006-05-20	BOS @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	2	0	5
2014-07-01	CLE @ LAD Gameday	2	1	2	2	0	0	0	4
2005-09-08	MIA @ WSH Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	4
2009-06-14	BOS @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
2003-08-17	SD @ MIA Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2008-04-27	BOS @ TB Gameday	7.0	4	2	1	1	13	1
2002-07-21	WSH @ MIA Gameday	6.0	3	0	0	4	12	0
2003-10-12	CHC @ MIA Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	11	0
2005-04-10	WSH @ MIA Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	11	0
2007-10-18	BOS @ CLE Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	1	11	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

1× World Series MVP1× ALCS MVP3× 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.