Rick Ankiel

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 210 lb

BornJuly 19, 1979 · Fort Pierce, FL, USA

MLB debutAugust 23, 1999

Final gameJune 8, 2013

Seasons11 (1999–2013)

St. Louis Cardinals 1999–2001; St. Louis Cardinals 2004; St. Louis Cardinals 2007–2009; Atlanta Braves 2010; Kansas City Royals 2010; Washington Nationals 2011–2012; Houston Astros 2013; New York Mets 2013

Percentile snapshot

2000 season — qualified pitchers

22.1

23.3

30.2

84.9

SHO

137

98.8

97.7

16.3

194

89.5

75.6

175.0

16.3

ERA

3.50

90.7

WHIP

1.297

76.7

K/9

9.98

96.5

FIP

4.04

82.6

FIP-

87.3

75.6

ERA+

132.5

90.7

sWAR

4.4

87.2

of 87 qualified 2000 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.5

86.3

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
1999	9	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-66.6	-49.1	.090	0.7
2000	35	73	68	8	17	1	1	2	9	4	20	0	0	.250	.292	.382	.674	67.4	68.9	.299	4.4
2001	6	10	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	.000	.111	.000	.111	-69.6	-67.1	.081	-0.6
2004	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	119.0	47.8	.367	0.0
2007	47	190	172	31	49	8	1	11	39	13	41	1	0	.285	.328	.535	.863	119.3	121.1	.368	1.0
2008	120	463	413	65	109	21	2	25	71	42	100	2	1	.264	.337	.506	.843	120.2	120.7	.365	2.7
2009	122	404	372	50	86	21	2	11	38	26	99	4	3	.231	.285	.387	.672	72.6	77.9	.295	-0.2
2010	74	240	211	31	49	13	1	6	24	26	71	3	1	.232	.321	.389	.709	92.6	91.9	.319	0.7
2011	122	415	380	46	91	20	0	9	37	29	96	10	3	.239	.296	.363	.659	80.7	81.5	.298	0.5
2012	68	171	158	15	36	10	2	5	15	12	59	1	3	.228	.282	.411	.694	79.7	86.0	.298	0.3
2013	45	136	128	13	24	7	1	7	18	8	60	0	1	.188	.235	.422	.657	76.0	79.8	.285	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1999	9	5	0	1	1	26	12	14	39	2	33.0	3.27	1.212	10.64	2.86	62.4	140.1	0.7
2000	31	30	11	7	0	137	68	90	194	21	175.0	3.50	1.297	9.98	4.04	87.3	132.5	4.4
2001	6	6	1	2	0	25	19	25	27	7	24.0	7.13	2.083	10.13	8.05	187.0	60.4	-0.6
2004	5	0	1	0	0	10	6	1	9	2	10.0	5.40	1.100	8.10	4.65	109.8	78.5	0.0

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

653

2,115

1,921

260

462

101

RBI

251

162

555

.2405

OBP

.3019

SLG

.4222

OPS

.7241

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

242

SO (P)

269

BB allowed

130

ERA

3.905

WHIP

1.3554

K/9

10.00

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
2007-09-06	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	4	3	1	0	2	7	1	10
2007-08-11	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
2009-06-10	STL @ MIA Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
2010-04-09	BOS @ KC Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
2009-04-23	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-07-21	STL @ HOU Gameday	7.0	3	1	1	3	11	1
2000-05-25	MIA @ STL Gameday	6.2	7	4	4	0	11	2
2000-09-13	STL @ PIT Gameday	6.2	7	4	2	0	11	0
2000-06-04	CLE @ STL Gameday	5.0	5	2	2	0	11	2
2000-04-09	MIL @ STL Gameday	6.0	3	2	2	3	10	1

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.