MLB / Players

Ryan Vogelsong

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 215 lb
BornJuly 22, 1977 · Charlotte, NC, USA
MLB debutSeptember 2, 2000
Final gameOctober 2, 2016
Seasons12 (2000–2016)

San Francisco Giants 2000; Pittsburgh Pirates 2001; San Francisco Giants 2001; Pittsburgh Pirates 2003–2006; San Francisco Giants 2011–2015; Pittsburgh Pirates 2016

Percentile snapshot

2014 season — qualified pitchers

G
32
39.1
GS
32
47.1
W
8
4.6
L
13
6.9
SV
0
0
CG
1
46
SHO
0
0
H
178
62.1
ER
82
29.9
BB
58
39.1
SO
151
43.7
HR
18
48.3
IP
184.7
31
ERA
4.00
24.1
WHIP
1.278
34.5
K/9
7.36
51.7
FIP
3.82
41.4
FIP-
109.3
20.7
ERA+
87.5
17.2
sWAR
0.7
18.4

of 88 qualified 2014 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
84.9
1.2
sWAR
2.9
73.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
200040000000000000.3
20011510100110000300.100.100.200.300-36.0-22.4.126-0.7
20036860100000200.167.167.167.333-26.6-12.1.150-0.4
200433443127200321300.226.265.290.55540.245.1.250-1.8
2005441090110000400.111.200.222.4226.411.5.2010.6
200620531100002200.333.600.333.933186.0150.9.473-0.3
2011316153712100221500.226.268.245.51346.148.5.2413.9
201231665455100033100.093.155.111.266-28.3-22.4.1342.4
201319362922000231700.069.156.069.225-39.1-32.3.125-1.9
201432666137200222000.115.156.148.304-24.6-11.8.1450.7
201533453635101211300.139.162.250.412-0.412.6.1820.0
201624231911000111300.053.143.053.195-49.9-44.0.1120.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
20004000000402606.00.001.0009.002.0647.90.3
20011520500039262024634.76.751.7026.235.78140.261.1-0.7
200365220003016915122.06.551.7736.143.7086.965.1-0.4
2004312661300014896679222133.06.501.6176.235.46128.465.5-1.8
20054402200082404052581.34.431.5005.754.28102.294.70.6
20062000000044271627238.06.391.5796.394.1993.670.0-0.3
20113028137011164546113915179.72.711.2526.963.63102.7130.83.9
20123131149000171716215817189.73.371.2287.503.74103.0107.82.4
201319194600012466386715103.75.731.5635.824.88139.161.2-1.9
20143232813010178825815118184.74.001.2787.363.82109.387.50.7
20153322911000140705810817135.04.671.4677.204.56119.881.50.0
2016241437000804440611182.34.811.4576.675.04122.485.70.1

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

G
292
PA
374
AB
311
R
24
H
43
2B
9
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
12
BB
16
SO
133
SB
0
BA
.1383
OBP
.1922
SLG
.1768
OPS
.3690

Pitching

G (P)
289
GS
179
W
61
L
75
SV
0
CG
2
SHO
1
IP
1,190
SO (P)
900
BB allowed
471
ERA
4.477
WHIP
1.4076
K/9
6.81
235th-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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
2015-09-03SF @ COL Gameday111001204
2004-05-27PIT @ STL Gameday212100103
2011-09-15SF @ COL Gameday322000002
2004-07-31PIT @ MIL Gameday211100102
2001-05-29AZ @ SF Gameday101100002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
2012-10-21STL @ SF Gameday7.0411190
2014-06-04SF @ CIN Gameday6.1722191
2011-08-14SF @ MIA Gameday7.2422281
2003-09-20CHC @ PIT Gameday7.0510180
2012-04-21SF @ NYM Gameday7.0533280

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

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.