Neal Cotts
Chicago White Sox 2003–2006; Chicago Cubs 2007–2009; Texas Rangers 2013–2014; Milwaukee Brewers 2015; Minnesota Twins 2015
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2004 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 3.000 | 697.7 | 648.6 | 1.260 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.3 |
| 2006 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 2013 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 2015 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 13.3 | 8.10 | 2.400 | 6.75 | 6.39 | 145.5 | 54.3 | -0.4 |
| 2004 | 56 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 41 | 30 | 58 | 13 | 65.3 | 5.65 | 1.393 | 7.99 | 5.48 | 116.0 | 83.7 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 69 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 13 | 29 | 58 | 1 | 60.3 | 1.94 | 1.110 | 8.65 | 2.99 | 66.4 | 232.0 | 2.3 |
| 2006 | 70 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 31 | 24 | 43 | 12 | 54.0 | 5.17 | 1.630 | 7.17 | 5.99 | 128.0 | 90.5 | 0.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 16.7 | 4.86 | 1.440 | 7.56 | 4.44 | 96.1 | 95.0 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 17 | 13 | 43 | 7 | 35.7 | 4.29 | 1.430 | 10.85 | 4.42 | 98.1 | 105.1 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 11.0 | 7.36 | 2.091 | 7.36 | 7.69 | 174.9 | 59.7 | -0.3 |
| 2013 | 58 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 7 | 18 | 65 | 2 | 57.0 | 1.11 | .947 | 10.26 | 2.20 | 53.6 | 370.7 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 73 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 32 | 23 | 63 | 6 | 66.7 | 4.32 | 1.335 | 8.51 | 3.61 | 92.6 | 90.3 | 0.3 |
| 2015 | 68 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 24 | 22 | 58 | 12 | 63.3 | 3.41 | 1.263 | 8.24 | 5.01 | 125.9 | 116.7 | 1.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-06-18 | CWS @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004-06-19 | CWS @ WSH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004-07-02 | CWS @ CHC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005-06-07 | CWS @ COL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005-06-10 | CWS @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-08-17 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 5.2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2004-09-18 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 2.2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 2004-05-29 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 2005-06-07 | CWS @ COL Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2004-07-08 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.