Ryan Dempster

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornMay 3, 1977 · Sechelt, BC, CAN

MLB debutMay 23, 1998

Final gameSeptember 29, 2013

Seasons16 (1998–2013)

Florida Marlins 1998–2001; Cincinnati Reds 2002; Florida Marlins 2002; Cincinnati Reds 2003; Chicago Cubs 2004–2012; Texas Rangers 2012; Boston Red Sox 2013

Percentile snapshot

2013 season — qualified pitchers

1.3

52.5

SHO

170

72.5

22.5

157

43.8

171.3

7.5

ERA

4.57

WHIP

1.453

K/9

8.25

72.5

FIP

4.70

2.5

FIP-

114.7

8.8

ERA+

89.7

17.5

sWAR

0.8

16.3

of 81 qualified 2013 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.9

29.4

sWAR

18.6

92.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1998	14	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.9	-100.0	.000	-1.4
1999	26	51	49	5	5	1	0	2	1	22	.102	.120	.122	.242	-48.4	-37.0	.113	0.8
2000	33	82	77	3	6	2	0	2	1	29	.078	.090	.104	.194	-63.0	-50.1	.088	3.7
2001	34	78	61	1	3	1	0	0	1	29	.049	.065	.066	.130	-81.3	-65.6	.061	0.0
2002	35	74	63	2	8	1	1	3	2	20	.127	.154	.175	.328	-26.4	-13.3	.152	-1.2
2003	24	35	33	1	1	0	0	0	1	19	.030	.059	.030	.089	-94.8	-75.6	.048	-2.1
2004	23	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	0.3
2005	63	14	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	.071	.071	.071	.143	-90.2	-62.6	.065	2.1
2006	74	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.0	-100.0	.000	0.6
2007	66	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.3	-100.0	.000	0.6
2008	33	82	61	4	10	2	0	2	2	19	.164	.190	.197	.387	-13.7	-0.1	.179	5.6
2009	31	75	64	2	8	1	0	5	4	20	.125	.176	.141	.317	-30.5	-16.6	.156	3.6
2010	35	75	59	3	8	1	0	2	0	19	.136	.136	.153	.288	-42.8	-23.3	.129	2.7
2011	35	69	58	1	5	0	0	0	1	19	.086	.102	.086	.188	-71.0	-47.9	.089	-0.6
2012	28	33	32	1	3	0	1	1	0	9	.094	.094	.156	.250	-56.8	-34.1	.108	3.2
2013	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1998	14	11	1	5	0	0	0	72	43	38	35	6	54.7	7.08	2.012	5.76	5.79	141.5	57.8	-1.4
1999	25	25	7	8	0	0	0	146	77	93	126	21	147.0	4.71	1.626	7.71	5.24	119.1	93.3	0.8
2000	33	33	14	10	0	2	1	210	92	97	209	30	226.3	3.66	1.356	8.31	4.28	96.1	121.8	3.7
2001	34	34	15	12	0	2	1	218	116	112	171	21	211.3	4.94	1.562	7.28	4.41	104.2	85.7	0.0
2002	33	33	10	13	0	4	0	228	125	93	153	28	209.0	5.38	1.536	6.59	4.63	114.1	75.3	-1.2
2003	22	20	3	7	0	0	0	134	84	70	84	14	115.7	6.54	1.764	6.54	5.04	118.5	65.1	-2.1
2004	23	0	1	1	2	0	0	16	9	13	18	1	20.7	3.92	1.403	7.84	4.02	93.4	109.7	0.3
2005	63	6	5	3	33	0	0	83	32	49	89	4	92.0	3.13	1.435	8.71	3.35	77.4	138.2	2.1
2006	74	0	1	9	24	0	0	77	40	36	67	5	75.0	4.80	1.507	8.04	3.75	81.0	96.5	0.6
2007	66	0	2	7	28	0	0	59	35	30	55	8	66.7	4.73	1.335	7.43	4.48	97.1	97.7	0.6
2008	33	33	17	6	0	1	0	174	68	76	187	14	206.7	2.96	1.210	8.14	3.38	75.0	152.2	5.6
2009	31	31	11	9	0	1	1	196	81	65	172	22	200.0	3.65	1.305	7.74	3.83	87.1	120.7	3.6
2010	34	34	15	12	0	1	0	198	92	86	208	25	215.3	3.85	1.319	8.69	4.02	97.0	107.8	2.7
2011	34	34	10	14	0	0	0	211	108	82	191	23	202.3	4.80	1.448	8.50	3.87	99.8	80.8	-0.6
2012	28	28	12	8	0	0	0	155	65	52	153	19	173.0	3.38	1.197	7.96	3.70	88.9	122.8	3.2
2013	32	29	8	9	0	0	0	170	87	79	157	26	171.3	4.57	1.453	8.25	4.70	114.7	89.7	0.8

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

586

686

588

RBI

221

.0986

OBP

.1181

SLG

.1207

OPS

.2388

Pitching

G (P)

579

274th-most career G (P)

351

219th-most career GS

132

360th-most career W

133

257th-most career L

208th-most career SV

SHO

2,387

286th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,075

80th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,071

86th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.351

WHIP

1.4319

K/9

7.82

110th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
2012-06-15	BOS @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	0	4
2009-05-14	SD @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
2002-05-12	LAD @ MIA Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1	3
2009-08-18	CHC @ SD Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
2002-08-04	CIN @ SD Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2008-05-15	SD @ CHC Gameday	8.1	6	0	0	1	12	0
2008-06-11	ATL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	0	11	1
2000-07-07	TB @ MIA Gameday	6.2	8	6	6	0	11	2
2011-05-13	SF @ CHC Gameday	6.0	6	2	2	1	11	0
2012-04-05	WSH @ CHC Gameday	7.2	2	1	1	3	10	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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.