Justin Thompson
Detroit Tigers 1996–1999; Texas Rangers 2005
Percentile snapshot
1998 season — qualified pitchers
of 96 qualified 1998 pitchers (min 162 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.9 |
| 1997 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 5.9 |
| 1998 | 34 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -38.3 | -25.2 | .128 | 3.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 30 | 31 | 44 | 7 | 59.0 | 4.58 | 1.576 | 6.71 | 4.98 | 99.0 | 109.9 | 0.9 |
| 1997 | 32 | 32 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 188 | 75 | 66 | 151 | 20 | 223.3 | 3.02 | 1.137 | 6.09 | 3.87 | 84.7 | 151.2 | 5.9 |
| 1998 | 34 | 34 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 227 | 100 | 79 | 149 | 20 | 222.0 | 4.05 | 1.378 | 6.04 | 4.15 | 88.5 | 115.6 | 3.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | 24 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152 | 81 | 59 | 83 | 24 | 142.7 | 5.11 | 1.479 | 5.24 | 5.55 | 114.5 | 94.9 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1.7 | 21.60 | 2.400 | 5.40 | 17.45 | 382.3 | 21.1 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-06-23 | DET @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997-06-14 | DET @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998-06-07 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999-06-13 | DET @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999-07-16 | DET @ HOU Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-07-19 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
| 1999-07-10 | MIL @ DET Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 1997-05-21 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 1997-06-07 | SEA @ DET Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997-06-01 | DET @ SEA Gameday | 7.1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.