Matt Palmer
San Francisco Giants 2008; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2009–2011; San Diego Padres 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 91.4 | 75.6 | .328 | -0.4 |
| 2009 | 40 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -23.6 | -11.0 | .149 | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 12.7 | 8.53 | 2.368 | 2.13 | 7.21 | 165.9 | 51.0 | -0.4 |
| 2009 | 40 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 105 | 53 | 55 | 69 | 12 | 121.3 | 3.93 | 1.319 | 5.12 | 4.75 | 107.9 | 112.0 | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 33.7 | 4.54 | 1.723 | 4.54 | 4.29 | 107.6 | 87.8 | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 15.7 | 5.74 | 1.468 | 4.02 | 3.13 | 81.8 | 66.5 | -0.2 |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2.0 | 9.00 | 2.000 | 9.00 | 10.64 | 286.4 | 41.3 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-08-21 | MIA @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009-06-28 | LAA @ AZ Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008-08-16 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008-08-26 | COL @ SF Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009-05-24 | LAA @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-05-13 | BOS @ LAA Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 2009-05-30 | SEA @ LAA Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2009-06-17 | LAA @ SF Gameday | 6.1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2009-05-08 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 5.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 2009-06-22 | COL @ LAA Gameday | 4.2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 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.