Michael Bowden
Boston Red Sox 2008–2012; Chicago Cubs 2012–2013
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.7 |
| 2010 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 2012 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 34 | 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5.0 | 3.60 | 1.600 | 5.40 | 2.56 | 56.8 | 125.4 | 0.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 16.0 | 9.56 | 1.813 | 6.75 | 5.21 | 113.5 | 47.9 | -0.7 |
| 2010 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 15.3 | 4.70 | 1.565 | 7.63 | 3.83 | 89.2 | 91.5 | 0.1 |
| 2011 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 20.0 | 4.05 | 1.500 | 7.65 | 4.96 | 115.3 | 106.3 | 0.3 |
| 2012 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 13 | 17 | 32 | 5 | 39.7 | 2.95 | 1.235 | 7.26 | 4.52 | 111.8 | 136.8 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 18 | 15 | 23 | 3 | 37.7 | 4.30 | 1.248 | 5.50 | 4.27 | 112.4 | 88.3 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-04-24 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012-04-28 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012-05-05 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012-05-11 | CHC @ MIL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012-05-13 | CHC @ MIL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-09-02 | TEX @ BOS Gameday | 2.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 2013-07-30 | MIL @ CHC Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2008-08-30 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2009-09-28 | TOR @ BOS Gameday | 3.0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 2012-09-01 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.