Sam Tuivailala
St. Louis Cardinals 2014–2017; Seattle Mariners 2018; St. Louis Cardinals 2018; Seattle Mariners 2019
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2015 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 2017 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1.0 | 36.00 | 7.000 | 9.00 | 33.10 | 914.3 | 10.1 | -0.4 |
| 2015 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 2 | 14.7 | 3.07 | 1.432 | 12.27 | 3.84 | 99.1 | 126.5 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 9.0 | 6.00 | 2.000 | 7.00 | 4.30 | 106.4 | 67.3 | -0.1 |
| 2017 | 37 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 12 | 11 | 34 | 4 | 42.3 | 2.55 | 1.087 | 7.23 | 3.72 | 88.5 | 164.7 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 36 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 14 | 12 | 30 | 3 | 37.0 | 3.41 | 1.432 | 7.30 | 3.70 | 94.6 | 115.3 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 27 | 1 | 23.0 | 2.35 | 1.043 | 10.57 | 3.17 | 71.3 | 189.3 | 0.7 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-09 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014-09-21 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015-05-03 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015-05-18 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015-05-19 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-24 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-09-21 | SEA @ BAL Gameday | 1.2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2015-09-10 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 1.1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 2015-09-18 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 1.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-06-01 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 1.1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 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.