Keith Foulke

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 19, 1972 · Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD, USA

MLB debutMay 21, 1997

Final gameSeptember 18, 2008

Seasons11 (1997–2008)

Chicago White Sox 1997; San Francisco Giants 1997; Chicago White Sox 1998–2002; Oakland Athletics 2003; Boston Red Sox 2004–2006; Oakland Athletics 2008

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

18.4

92.9

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	H	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1997	27	15	13	2	4	.154	.154	.154	.308	-32.2	-18.1	.140	-1.1
1998	54	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1999	67	2	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.0	-100.0	.000	3.9
2000	72	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
2001	72	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
2002	65	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.7	-100.0	.000	2.1
2003	72	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
2004	72	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
2005	43	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2006	44	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2008	31	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1997	27	8	4	5	3	88	52	23	54	13	73.3	6.38	1.514	6.63	5.04	119.4	66.5	-1.1
1998	54	0	3	2	1	51	30	20	57	9	65.3	4.13	1.087	7.85	4.37	95.8	110.3	0.9
1999	67	0	3	3	9	72	26	21	123	11	105.3	2.22	.883	10.51	2.91	59.7	219.4	3.9
2000	72	0	3	1	34	66	29	22	91	9	88.0	2.97	1.000	9.31	3.30	66.0	168.8	2.7
2001	72	0	4	9	42	57	21	22	75	3	81.0	2.33	.975	8.33	2.84	61.4	198.2	2.8
2002	65	0	2	4	11	65	25	13	58	7	77.7	2.90	1.004	6.72	3.32	73.0	156.8	2.1
2003	72	0	9	1	43	57	20	20	88	10	86.7	2.08	.888	9.14	3.50	77.3	217.9	3.1
2004	72	0	5	3	32	63	20	15	79	8	83.0	2.17	.940	8.57	3.27	68.4	220.2	3.1
2005	43	0	5	5	15	53	30	18	34	8	45.7	5.91	1.555	6.70	5.35	120.0	75.4	-0.3
2006	44	0	3	1	0	52	24	7	36	9	49.7	4.35	1.188	6.52	4.64	98.8	107.9	0.7
2008	31	0	0	3	1	28	14	13	23	7	31.0	4.06	1.323	6.68	5.97	142.3	103.2	0.4

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

619

RBI

.1250

OBP

.1250

SLG

.1250

OPS

.2500

Pitching

G (P)

619

213th-most career G (P)

191

59th-most career SV

SHO

787

SO (P)

718

BB allowed

194

ERA

3.329

WHIP

1.0754

K/9

8.21

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	H	TB
1997-06-09	MIA @ SF Gameday	3	1	1
1997-07-05	COL @ SF Gameday	2	1	1
1997-05-21	COL @ SF Gameday	1	0	0
1997-05-25	STL @ SF Gameday	0	0	0
1997-05-30	SF @ ATL Gameday	2	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1997-06-09	MIA @ SF Gameday	6.1	3	1	1	2	8	0
1999-09-08	CWS @ LAA Gameday	2.2	0	0	0	1	6	0
1999-06-03	CWS @ TOR Gameday	2.1	1	0	0	0	6	0
1997-07-05	COL @ SF Gameday	6.0	6	1	1	0	5	1
1999-06-24	MIN @ CWS Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	0	5	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× 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.