MLB / Players

Rafael Betancourt

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornApril 29, 1975 · Cumana, Sucre, Venezuela

MLB debutJuly 13, 2003

Final gameAugust 22, 2015

Seasons12 (2003–2015)

Cleveland Indians 2003–2009; Colorado Rockies 2009–2013; Colorado Rockies 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

15.1

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2003	33	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2004	68	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2005	54	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2006	50	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2007	68	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.8	-100.0	.000	3.4
2008	69	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
2009	61	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2010	72	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2011	68	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2012	60	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2013	32	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
2015	45	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2003	33	2	2	1	27	9	13	36	5	38.0	2.13	1.053	8.53	4.01	90.1	209.0	1.3
2004	68	5	6	4	71	29	18	76	7	66.7	3.92	1.335	10.26	3.05	68.5	113.8	1.0
2005	54	4	3	1	57	21	17	73	5	67.7	2.79	1.094	9.71	2.61	61.4	152.1	1.8
2006	50	3	4	3	52	24	11	48	7	56.7	3.81	1.112	7.62	3.68	81.2	119.0	1.0
2007	68	5	1	3	51	13	9	80	4	79.3	1.47	.756	9.08	2.29	50.4	308.2	3.4
2008	69	3	4	4	76	40	25	64	11	71.0	5.07	1.423	8.11	4.43	102.8	85.0	0.1
2009	61	4	3	2	42	17	20	61	4	56.0	2.73	1.107	9.80	2.93	66.6	162.5	1.6
2010	72	5	1	1	52	25	8	89	9	62.3	3.61	.963	12.85	2.51	55.7	125.1	1.3
2011	68	2	0	8	46	20	8	73	7	62.3	2.89	.866	10.54	2.50	56.2	153.8	1.8
2012	60	1	4	31	53	18	12	57	6	57.7	2.81	1.127	8.90	3.14	68.9	162.0	1.8
2013	32	2	5	16	26	13	11	27	2	28.7	4.08	1.291	8.48	3.19	73.1	107.0	0.4
2015	45	2	4	1	43	27	12	40	4	39.3	6.18	1.398	9.15	3.37	74.0	73.6	-0.4

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

680

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

680

145th-most career G (P)

245th-most career SV

SHO

686

SO (P)

724

BB allowed

164

ERA

3.360

WHIP

1.1084

K/9

9.50

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
2003-09-03	CLE @ DET Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2004-06-15	CLE @ NYM Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2004-06-17	CLE @ NYM Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2004-06-19	CLE @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2005-05-22	CLE @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	SO
2006-07-05	NYY @ CLE Gameday	3.1	1	0	5
2005-04-07	CLE @ CWS Gameday	2.2	0	0	4
2005-06-15	COL @ CLE Gameday	2.1	1	0	4
2004-07-30	CLE @ KC Gameday	2.0	0	0	4
2005-07-29	CLE @ SEA Gameday	2.0	2	1	4

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.