Paul Giel
New York Giants 1954–1955; San Francisco Giants 1958; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959–1960; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Minnesota Twins 1961
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1955 | 34 | 20 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .053 | .053 | .105 | .158 | -78.1 | -59.1 | .068 | 1.2 |
| 1958 | 29 | 33 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .074 | .138 | .074 | .212 | -52.6 | -41.2 | .114 | -0.1 |
| 1959 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.8 |
| 1960 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
| 1961 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 174.7 | 164.4 | .457 | -1.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4.3 | 8.31 | 2.308 | 8.31 | 1.96 | 48.4 | 48.7 | -0.2 |
| 1955 | 34 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 31 | 50 | 47 | 8 | 82.3 | 3.39 | 1.457 | 5.14 | 4.32 | 108.2 | 117.9 | 1.2 |
| 1958 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 48 | 55 | 55 | 12 | 92.0 | 4.70 | 1.565 | 5.38 | 4.87 | 124.5 | 83.2 | -0.1 |
| 1959 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 7.7 | 14.09 | 3.000 | 3.52 | 4.19 | 108.3 | 27.4 | -0.8 |
| 1960 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 21 | 15 | 21 | 3 | 33.0 | 5.73 | 1.515 | 5.73 | 3.92 | 104.8 | 65.4 | -0.5 |
| 1961 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 28 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 21.0 | 12.00 | 2.381 | 6.43 | 8.27 | 198.1 | 34.8 | -1.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-06-15 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1958-07-27 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1958-07-03 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-04-24 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1954-07-03 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-07-28 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| 1958-08-29 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 5.2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 1955-06-07 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 1958-06-18 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1958-07-03 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
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.