Kris Benson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 7, 1974 · Kennesaw, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 9, 1999

Final gameApril 28, 2010

Seasons9 (1999–2010)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1999–2000; Pittsburgh Pirates 2002–2003; New York Mets 2004; Pittsburgh Pirates 2004; New York Mets 2005; Baltimore Orioles 2006; Texas Rangers 2009; Arizona Diamondbacks 2010

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified pitchers

10.8

14.5

27.7

81.9

SHO

199

60.2

34.9

55.4

7.2

183.0

20.5

ERA

4.82

25.3

WHIP

1.404

34.9

K/9

4.33

7.2

FIP

5.64

2.4

FIP-

123.9

4.8

ERA+

94.4

25.3

sWAR

1.4

25.3

of 84 qualified 2006 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.3

34.9

sWAR

11.5

88.3

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
1999	31	74	65	7	10	3	0	7	3	24	.154	.191	.200	.391	-8.0	-0.5	.182	3.0
2000	32	79	65	3	6	2	0	1	4	29	.092	.157	.123	.280	-33.1	-27.4	.140	3.7
2002	27	44	40	3	7	1	0	1	0	11	.175	.175	.200	.375	-17.2	-1.6	.169	0.5
2003	18	37	30	2	0	0	0	0	1	11	.000	.032	.000	.032	-111.3	-90.5	.024	-0.1
2004	31	75	58	3	8	0	0	5	2	26	.138	.167	.138	.305	-30.5	-19.2	.144	1.7
2005	28	61	49	4	9	1	0	6	5	22	.184	.273	.204	.477	30.9	29.6	.235	1.9
2006	30	9	9	1	1	0	1	2	0	3	.111	.111	.444	.556	22.4	34.4	.221	1.4
2009	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
2010	3	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-8.9	6.1	.181	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1999	31	31	11	14	2	0	184	89	83	139	16	196.7	4.07	1.358	6.36	4.08	89.2	112.1	3.0
2000	32	32	10	12	2	1	206	93	86	184	24	217.7	3.85	1.342	7.61	4.12	89.4	119.9	3.7
2002	25	25	9	6	0	0	152	68	50	79	18	130.3	4.70	1.550	5.46	4.68	112.9	88.3	0.5
2003	18	18	5	9	0	0	127	58	36	68	14	105.0	4.97	1.552	5.83	4.47	104.9	85.7	-0.1
2004	31	31	12	12	1	1	202	96	61	134	15	200.3	4.31	1.313	6.02	3.65	85.9	98.6	1.7
2005	28	28	10	8	0	0	171	80	49	95	24	174.3	4.13	1.262	4.90	4.60	111.2	100.2	1.9
2006	30	30	11	12	3	0	199	98	58	88	33	183.0	4.82	1.404	4.33	5.64	123.9	94.4	1.4
2009	8	2	1	1	0	0	33	21	12	11	6	22.3	8.46	2.015	4.43	7.67	165.3	54.8	-0.7
2010	3	3	1	1	0	0	18	8	6	8	2	14.0	5.14	1.714	5.14	5.32	125.9	82.1	0.0

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

208

385

321

RBI

127

.1308

OBP

.1746

SLG

.1620

OPS

.3366

Pitching

G (P)

206

200

SHO

1,244

SO (P)

806

BB allowed

441

ERA

4.422

WHIP

1.3935

K/9

5.83

411th-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	TB
2006-06-17	BAL @ NYM Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1999-09-10	PIT @ STL Gameday	2	2	2	1	0	0	3
2004-04-24	CIN @ PIT Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	1	2
2002-08-20	PIT @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	2
1999-04-14	STL @ PIT Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-05-19	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	1	11	0
2000-05-30	MIA @ PIT Gameday	8.0	4	2	2	2	11	1
2000-07-19	PIT @ MIL Gameday	6.0	5	4	4	3	11	0
2000-07-25	MIL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	9	1
2000-04-11	WSH @ PIT Gameday	7.0	9	7	7	2	9	3

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.