Kyle Farnsworth

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 230 lb

BornApril 14, 1976 · Wichita, KS, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 1999

Final gameJune 25, 2014

Seasons16 (1999–2014)

Chicago Cubs 1999–2004; Atlanta Braves 2005; Detroit Tigers 2005; New York Yankees 2006–2007; Detroit Tigers 2008; New York Yankees 2008; Kansas City Royals 2009; Atlanta Braves 2010; Kansas City Royals 2010; Tampa Bay Rays 2011–2012; Pittsburgh Pirates 2013; Tampa Bay Rays 2013; Houston Astros 2014; New York Mets 2014

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

9.8

86.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1999	27	44	35	3	3	0	2	2	10	.086	.158	.086	.244	-40.0	-35.4	.130	0.4
2000	46	16	14	0	1	1	0	0	6	.071	.071	.143	.214	-62.4	-46.8	.090	-0.9
2001	76	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.4	-100.0	.000	2.0
2002	45	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.1	-100.0	.000	-1.3
2003	77	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.8	-100.0	.000	1.6
2004	72	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	0.3
2005	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2006	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
2007	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2008	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
2009	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
2010	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2011	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
2012	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
2013	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2014	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1999	27	21	5	9	0	1	1	140	73	52	70	28	130.0	5.05	1.477	4.85	6.07	134.2	89.4	0.4
2000	46	5	2	9	1	0	0	90	55	50	74	14	77.0	6.43	1.818	8.65	5.60	124.7	69.9	-0.9
2001	76	0	4	6	2	0	0	65	25	29	107	8	82.0	2.74	1.146	11.74	2.76	66.8	150.7	2.0
2002	45	0	4	6	1	0	0	53	38	24	46	9	46.7	7.33	1.650	8.87	5.02	125.7	54.5	-1.3
2003	77	0	3	2	0	0	0	53	28	36	92	6	76.3	3.30	1.166	10.85	3.00	70.0	130.0	1.6
2004	72	0	4	5	0	0	0	67	35	33	78	10	66.7	4.73	1.500	10.53	4.14	96.2	91.0	0.3
2005	72	0	1	1	16	0	0	44	17	27	87	5	70.0	2.19	1.014	11.19	2.76	64.8	195.1	2.3
2006	72	0	3	6	6	0	0	62	32	28	75	8	66.0	4.36	1.364	10.23	3.81	83.3	104.9	0.8
2007	64	0	2	1	0	0	0	60	32	27	48	9	60.0	4.80	1.450	7.20	5.11	113.3	94.0	0.4
2008	61	0	2	3	1	0	0	70	30	22	61	15	60.3	4.48	1.525	9.10	5.52	125.6	98.2	0.6
2009	41	0	1	5	0	0	0	43	19	14	42	3	37.3	4.58	1.527	10.13	3.14	70.2	97.8	0.3
2010	60	0	3	2	0	0	0	55	24	19	61	4	64.7	3.34	1.144	8.49	3.05	74.1	123.2	1.2
2011	63	0	5	1	25	0	0	45	14	12	51	5	57.7	2.18	.988	7.96	3.20	84.0	174.3	1.7
2012	34	0	1	6	0	0	0	22	12	14	25	1	27.0	4.00	1.333	8.33	3.34	86.2	96.9	0.2
2013	48	0	3	1	2	0	0	43	20	10	28	5	38.3	4.70	1.383	6.57	4.16	108.8	81.2	0.0
2014	35	0	0	3	3	0	0	32	14	15	18	2	28.7	4.40	1.640	5.65	4.35	120.8	82.3	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

893

RBI

.0741

OBP

.1207

SLG

.0926

OPS

.2133

Pitching

G (P)

893

30th-most career G (P)

321st-most career SV

SHO

989

SO (P)

963

BB allowed

412

ERA

4.260

WHIP

1.3715

K/9

8.77

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	2B	RBI	TB
2000-08-18	CHC @ AZ Gameday	1	1	1	0	2
1999-08-29	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	1	0	1	1
1999-05-26	MIA @ CHC Gameday	1	1	0	0	1
1999-08-06	HOU @ CHC Gameday	2	1	0	0	1
1999-09-09	CIN @ CHC Gameday	2	0	0	1	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1999-09-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	2	7	0
2000-04-12	ATL @ CHC Gameday	7.0	6	4	4	3	7	2
1999-06-02	SD @ CHC Gameday	5.0	6	4	4	2	6	2
2000-09-02	CHC @ SF Gameday	3.2	1	0	0	0	6	0
1999-04-29	CHC @ MIA Gameday	6.0	6	2	1	1	5	1

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.