Matt Thornton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 235 lb

BornSeptember 15, 1976 · Three Rivers, MI, USA

MLB debutJune 27, 2004

Final gameAugust 2, 2016

Seasons13 (2004–2016)

Seattle Mariners 2004–2005; Chicago White Sox 2006–2012; Boston Red Sox 2013; Chicago White Sox 2013; New York Yankees 2014; Washington Nationals 2014–2015; San Diego Padres 2016

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

13.6

90.1

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2004	19	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2005	55	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2006	63	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2007	68	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.3	-100.0	.000	0.5
2008	74	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
2009	70	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
2010	61	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
2011	62	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2012	74	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2013	60	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
2014	64	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2015	60	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2016	18	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2004	19	1	1	2	0	30	15	25	30	2	32.7	4.13	1.684	8.27	4.41	95.2	112.1	0.5
2005	55	0	0	4	0	54	33	42	57	13	57.0	5.21	1.684	9.00	6.23	148.6	80.4	-0.1
2006	63	0	5	3	2	46	20	21	49	5	54.0	3.33	1.241	8.17	3.80	81.3	140.3	1.3
2007	68	0	4	4	2	59	30	26	55	4	56.3	4.79	1.509	8.79	3.77	81.0	97.1	0.5
2008	74	0	5	3	1	48	20	19	77	5	67.3	2.67	.995	10.29	2.78	61.9	167.9	2.0
2009	70	0	6	3	4	58	22	20	87	5	72.3	2.74	1.078	10.82	2.51	54.1	169.3	2.2
2010	61	0	5	4	8	41	18	20	81	3	60.7	2.67	1.005	12.02	2.11	49.9	158.2	1.7
2011	62	0	2	5	3	60	22	21	63	3	59.7	3.32	1.358	9.50	2.66	62.3	128.6	1.2
2012	74	0	4	10	3	63	25	17	53	4	65.0	3.46	1.231	7.34	3.14	74.8	121.2	1.2
2013	60	0	0	4	0	47	18	15	30	4	43.3	3.74	1.431	6.23	4.07	98.5	110.4	0.6
2014	64	0	1	3	0	33	7	8	28	0	36.0	1.75	1.139	7.00	2.67	70.3	216.9	1.3
2015	60	0	2	1	0	33	10	11	23	2	41.3	2.18	1.065	5.01	3.55	90.5	180.1	1.3
2016	18	0	1	0	0	22	11	6	9	2	17.0	5.82	1.647	4.76	4.89	120.7	69.6	-0.2

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

748

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

748

80th-most career G (P)

SHO

663

SO (P)

642

BB allowed

251

ERA

3.409

WHIP

1.2752

K/9

8.72

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
2004-07-02	SEA @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2005-06-07	SEA @ MIA Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2005-06-10	SEA @ WSH Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2005-06-24	SEA @ SD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2005-06-25	SEA @ SD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2004-08-28	KC @ SEA Gameday	3.0	0	0	0	2	5	0
2005-05-17	NYY @ SEA Gameday	3.0	2	1	1	1	5	1
2008-08-05	DET @ CWS Gameday	3.0	2	2	2	0	5	1
2010-04-23	SEA @ CWS Gameday	2.1	0	0	0	0	5	0
2010-05-07	TOR @ CWS Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	5	0

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.