MLB / Players

Matt Capps

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 250 lb

BornSeptember 3, 1983 · Douglasville, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 2005

Final gameSeptember 24, 2012

Seasons8 (2005–2012)

Pittsburgh Pirates 2005–2009; Minnesota Twins 2010; Washington Nationals 2010; Minnesota Twins 2011–2012

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

7.8

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	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2005	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2006	85	3	2	1	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	35.5	-2.6	.244	1.4
2007	76	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	474.7	426.8	.901	2.6
2008	49	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.4	-100.0	.000	1.2
2009	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
2010	74	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	2.0
2011	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2012	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2005	4	0	0	0	5	2	0	3	0	4.0	4.50	1.250	6.75	2.24	53.5	93.1	0.0
2006	85	9	1	1	81	34	12	56	12	80.7	3.79	1.153	6.25	4.21	94.2	117.9	1.4
2007	76	4	7	18	64	20	16	64	5	79.0	2.28	1.013	7.29	3.10	71.3	191.0	2.6
2008	49	2	3	21	47	18	5	39	5	53.7	3.02	.969	6.54	3.25	76.9	140.1	1.2
2009	57	4	8	27	73	35	17	46	10	54.3	5.80	1.656	7.62	4.86	116.6	71.9	-0.5
2010	74	5	3	42	75	20	17	59	6	73.0	2.47	1.260	7.27	3.24	80.1	164.0	2.0
2011	69	4	7	15	66	31	13	34	10	65.7	4.25	1.203	4.66	4.78	118.2	95.2	0.5
2012	30	1	4	14	28	12	4	18	5	29.3	3.68	1.091	5.52	4.44	109.1	110.7	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

444

RBI

.2000

OBP

.3333

SLG

.2000

OPS

.5333

Pitching

G (P)

444

138

105th-most career SV

SHO

440

SO (P)

319

BB allowed

ERA

3.521

WHIP

1.1895

K/9

6.53

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
2007-04-08	PIT @ CIN Gameday	1	1	1
2005-09-16	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0	0	0
2005-09-20	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0	0	0
2005-09-21	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0	0	0
2005-09-25	PIT @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	SO	HR
2009-08-06	AZ @ PIT Gameday	2.0	1	0	4	0
2010-04-24	LAD @ WSH Gameday	2.0	2	0	4	0
2006-04-30	PHI @ PIT Gameday	2.0	0	0	3	0
2008-04-07	CHC @ PIT Gameday	2.0	1	0	3	0
2008-06-15	PIT @ BAL Gameday	2.0	2	2	3	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.

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.