Kent Bottenfield

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 225 lb

BornNovember 14, 1968 · Portland, OR, USA

MLB debutJuly 6, 1992

Final gameJune 9, 2001

Seasons9 (1992–2001)

Montreal Expos 1992; Colorado Rockies 1993; Montreal Expos 1993; Colorado Rockies 1994; San Francisco Giants 1994; Chicago Cubs 1996–1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1998–1999; Anaheim Angels 2000; Philadelphia Phillies 2000; Houston Astros 2001

Percentile snapshot

2000 season — qualified pitchers

4.7

15.1

44.2

23.3

SHO

48.8

185

77.9

103

33.7

40.7

106

19.8

171.7

10.5

ERA

5.40

9.3

WHIP

1.526

16.3

K/9

5.56

31.4

FIP

5.62

2.3

FIP-

114.6

ERA+

90.6

15.1

sWAR

0.7

11.6

of 87 qualified 2000 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.2

84.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1992	10	9	8	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	.375	.375	.375	.750	118.1	114.8	.348	0.9
1993	37	55	50	2	11	0	3	1	15	1	.220	.250	.220	.470	17.1	22.5	.222	0.4
1994	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-143.0	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1996	48	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	172.8	163.2	.455	1.8
1997	64	8	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.7	-100.0	.000	1.2
1998	44	39	34	3	3	0	2	0	9	0	.088	.088	.088	.176	-72.6	-53.1	.080	0.8
1999	31	70	61	4	9	3	5	1	26	0	.148	.161	.197	.358	-21.7	-9.9	.161	3.1
2000	29	20	17	3	2	0	0	0	4	0	.118	.118	.118	.235	-55.9	-40.1	.106	0.7
2001	13	15	14	0	2	0	0	0	5	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-45.4	-27.4	.128	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1992	10	4	1	2	1	0	0	26	8	11	14	1	32.3	2.23	1.144	3.90	3.42	98.5	156.2	0.9
1993	37	25	5	10	0	1	0	179	90	71	63	24	159.7	5.07	1.566	3.55	5.59	128.9	85.4	0.4
1994	16	1	3	1	1	0	0	33	18	10	15	2	26.3	6.15	1.633	5.13	4.28	89.3	79.9	-0.1
1996	48	0	3	5	1	0	0	59	18	19	33	3	61.7	2.63	1.265	4.82	3.73	86.4	164.2	1.8
1997	64	0	2	3	2	0	0	82	36	35	74	13	84.0	3.86	1.393	7.93	4.64	108.1	111.4	1.2
1998	44	17	4	6	4	0	0	128	66	57	98	13	133.7	4.44	1.384	6.60	4.23	100.3	95.0	0.8
1999	31	31	18	7	0	0	0	197	84	89	124	21	190.3	3.97	1.503	5.86	4.69	102.2	115.5	3.1
2000	29	29	8	10	0	1	1	185	103	77	106	30	171.7	5.40	1.526	5.56	5.62	114.6	90.6	0.7
2001	13	9	2	5	1	0	0	61	37	16	39	16	52.0	6.40	1.481	6.75	6.54	142.4	71.8	-0.6

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

292

220

191

RBI

.1623

OBP

.1753

SLG

.1780

OPS

.3533

Pitching

G (P)

292

116

SHO

912

SO (P)

566

BB allowed

385

ERA

4.541

WHIP

1.4644

K/9

5.59

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	RBI	TB
1993-09-11	COL @ PIT Gameday	3	0	3	0	2	3
2000-07-14	LAA @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
1999-06-21	HOU @ STL Gameday	1	0	1	1	2	2
1999-07-01	STL @ HOU Gameday	2	0	1	1	2	2
1999-06-16	WSH @ STL Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1999-04-13	STL @ PIT Gameday	5.1	6	1	1	2	10	1
1998-08-01	STL @ ATL Gameday	7.0	6	0	0	2	9	0
2000-04-30	TB @ LAA Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	0	9	1
1999-06-26	STL @ AZ Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	2	8	0
1998-07-13	CIN @ STL Gameday	6.0	7	2	2	1	8	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.