Paul Wagner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornNovember 14, 1967 · Milwaukee, WI, USA

MLB debutJuly 26, 1992

Final gameMay 7, 1999

Seasons8 (1992–1999)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1992–1996; Milwaukee Brewers 1997; Pittsburgh Pirates 1997; Milwaukee Brewers 1998; Cleveland Indians 1999

Percentile snapshot

1995 season — qualified pitchers

90.5

6.8

95.9

52.7

SHO

37.8

174

62.2

39.2

29.7

120

37.8

54.1

165.0

12.2

ERA

4.80

12.2

WHIP

1.491

16.2

K/9

6.55

60.8

FIP

4.47

28.4

FIP-

104.6

18.9

ERA+

89.0

8.1

sWAR

0.9

10.8

of 75 qualified 1995 pitchers (min 144 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.9

69.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1992	6	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	89.7	90.6	.310	0.6
1993	44	47	42	2	8	0	1	1	14	0	.190	.209	.190	.400	2.1	8.5	.187	1.1
1994	29	39	37	1	6	1	2	0	10	0	.162	.162	.189	.351	-23.2	-9.2	.157	0.7
1995	34	52	42	5	9	1	4	4	11	0	.214	.283	.238	.521	39.2	38.2	.251	0.9
1996	17	30	25	1	1	0	2	2	8	1	.040	.111	.040	.151	-65.1	-58.3	.089	-0.3
1997	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	0.1
1998	13	20	19	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	.158	.158	.158	.316	-31.6	-16.5	.143	-1.3
1999	3	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
1992	6	1	2	0	0	0	0	9	1	5	5	0	13.0	0.69	1.077	3.46	3.16	90.5	504.2	0.6
1993	44	17	8	8	2	1	1	143	67	42	114	15	141.3	4.27	1.309	7.26	3.65	90.5	94.6	1.1
1994	29	17	7	8	0	1	0	136	61	50	86	7	119.7	4.59	1.554	6.47	3.84	89.6	93.5	0.7
1995	33	25	5	16	1	3	1	174	88	72	120	18	165.0	4.80	1.491	6.55	4.47	104.6	89.0	0.9
1996	16	15	4	8	0	1	0	86	49	39	81	10	81.7	5.40	1.531	8.93	4.24	98.0	80.3	-0.3
1997	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	20	9	13	9	4	18.0	4.50	1.833	4.50	7.14	165.0	95.9	0.1
1998	13	9	1	5	0	0	0	67	44	31	37	10	55.7	7.11	1.760	5.98	5.80	136.0	59.9	-1.3
1999	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	4.3	4.15	1.846	0.00	6.67	132.5	121.1	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

162

192

169

RBI

.1657

OBP

.1989

SLG

.1775

OPS

.3764

Pitching

G (P)

160

SHO

599

SO (P)

452

BB allowed

255

ERA

4.826

WHIP

1.4950

K/9

6.80

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	RBI	TB
1994-05-01	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	1	2	3
1993-09-20	NYM @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2
1995-09-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1995-06-08	PIT @ MIA Gameday	1	0	1	1	2	2
1993-06-23	CHC @ PIT Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1995-08-29	COL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	3	11	0
1996-05-04	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	3	11	1
1996-06-01	COL @ PIT Gameday	7.0	1	2	2	5	10	0
1996-04-23	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5.1	8	5	5	3	10	1
1994-05-08	CHC @ PIT Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	4	9	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.