Marcus Thames
New York Yankees 2002; Texas Rangers 2003; Detroit Tigers 2004–2009; New York Yankees 2010; Los Angeles Dodgers 2011
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .231 | .538 | .769 | 94.2 | 98.4 | .320 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 30 | 84 | 73 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 1 | .205 | .298 | .274 | .572 | 47.9 | 46.7 | .268 | -0.4 |
| 2004 | 61 | 184 | 165 | 24 | 42 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 33 | 16 | 42 | 0 | 1 | .255 | .326 | .509 | .835 | 116.4 | 116.8 | .359 | 0.7 |
| 2005 | 38 | 118 | 107 | 11 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 38 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .263 | .411 | .674 | 73.4 | 77.6 | .289 | -0.2 |
| 2006 | 110 | 390 | 348 | 61 | 89 | 20 | 2 | 26 | 60 | 37 | 92 | 1 | 1 | .256 | .333 | .549 | .882 | 123.7 | 123.4 | .376 | 1.7 |
| 2007 | 86 | 284 | 269 | 37 | 65 | 15 | 0 | 18 | 54 | 13 | 72 | 2 | 1 | .242 | .278 | .498 | .776 | 94.6 | 98.5 | .332 | 0.2 |
| 2008 | 103 | 342 | 316 | 50 | 76 | 12 | 0 | 25 | 56 | 24 | 95 | 0 | 3 | .241 | .292 | .516 | .808 | 105.7 | 107.9 | .347 | 0.8 |
| 2009 | 87 | 294 | 258 | 33 | 65 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 36 | 29 | 72 | 0 | 2 | .252 | .323 | .453 | .777 | 97.9 | 100.9 | .335 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 82 | 237 | 212 | 22 | 61 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 33 | 19 | 61 | 0 | 0 | .288 | .350 | .491 | .841 | 125.7 | 124.0 | .369 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 36 | 70 | 66 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .197 | .243 | .333 | .576 | 55.3 | 59.5 | .260 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-10-02 | TB @ DET Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 2006-07-16 | KC @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2008-05-28 | DET @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 2009-06-19 | MIL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 2006-05-25 | DET @ KC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
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.