Paul Bako
Detroit Tigers 1998; Houston Astros 1999; Atlanta Braves 2000; Florida Marlins 2000; Houston Astros 2000; Atlanta Braves 2001; Milwaukee Brewers 2002; Chicago Cubs 2003–2004; Los Angeles Dodgers 2005; Kansas City Royals 2006; Baltimore Orioles 2007; Cincinnati Reds 2008; Philadelphia Phillies 2009
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 96 | 333 | 305 | 23 | 83 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 23 | 82 | 1 | 1 | .272 | .319 | .348 | .667 | 70.2 | 73.6 | .295 | 0.6 |
| 1999 | 73 | 247 | 215 | 16 | 55 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 26 | 57 | 1 | 1 | .256 | .332 | .358 | .690 | 72.9 | 74.5 | .310 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 81 | 251 | 221 | 18 | 50 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 27 | 64 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .312 | .308 | .620 | 52.3 | 60.5 | .271 | -0.1 |
| 2001 | 61 | 157 | 137 | 19 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 20 | 34 | 1 | 0 | .212 | .312 | .343 | .655 | 70.0 | 69.7 | .295 | 0.4 |
| 2002 | 87 | 257 | 234 | 24 | 55 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 46 | 0 | 2 | .235 | .295 | .329 | .624 | 61.8 | 65.4 | .282 | 0.3 |
| 2003 | 70 | 213 | 188 | 19 | 43 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 22 | 47 | 0 | 1 | .229 | .311 | .330 | .641 | 65.8 | 67.9 | .290 | 0.4 |
| 2004 | 49 | 157 | 138 | 13 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 15 | 29 | 1 | 0 | .203 | .288 | .283 | .571 | 44.6 | 49.4 | .258 | -0.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | 47 | 40 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .362 | .300 | .662 | 81.0 | 78.6 | .308 | 0.2 |
| 2006 | 56 | 167 | 153 | 7 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 46 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .261 | .229 | .489 | 25.3 | 27.6 | .229 | -0.6 |
| 2007 | 60 | 174 | 156 | 13 | 32 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 50 | 0 | 1 | .205 | .277 | .256 | .534 | 42.7 | 41.5 | .253 | -0.2 |
| 2008 | 99 | 338 | 299 | 30 | 65 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 35 | 34 | 90 | 0 | 2 | .217 | .299 | .328 | .626 | 59.4 | 63.3 | .282 | 0.2 |
| 2009 | 44 | 130 | 116 | 12 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 32 | 0 | 1 | .224 | .308 | .336 | .644 | 66.9 | 69.9 | .292 | 0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-09 | CIN @ MIA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 2003-04-05 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2002-06-29 | MIL @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2001-10-12 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2000-07-27 | MIA @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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.