MLB / Players

Scott Downs

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb
BornMarch 17, 1976 · Louisville, KY, USA
MLB debutApril 9, 2000
Final gameSeptember 23, 2014
Seasons13 (2000–2014)

Chicago Cubs 2000; Montreal Expos 2000; Montreal Expos 2003–2004; Toronto Blue Jays 2005–2010; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2011–2012; Atlanta Braves 2013; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2013; Chicago White Sox 2014; Kansas City Royals 2014

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
13.4
90

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
200019342822000121000.071.133.071.205-50.7-45.0.1090.0
20031110000000000.000.000.000.000-130.5-100.0.000-0.3
20041222151100001700.067.125.067.192-61.0-48.3.1020.0
2005260000000000001.1
2006590000000000001.2
2007810000000000002.0
2008660000000000002.6
200948110000000000.000.000.000.000-123.8-100.0.0001.1
2010670000000000001.7
2011600000000000002.1
2012570000000000000.8
2013680000000000001.1
201455000000000000-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
20001919430001225740631397.05.291.6705.854.89108.685.20.0
20031101000553423.015.002.66712.0011.98271.929.4-0.3
200412123601179362338963.05.141.6195.434.84111.484.50.0
2005261343000934534751294.04.311.3517.184.3696.9104.41.1
20065956210073353061977.04.091.3387.134.3795.1112.41.2
20078104210047142457358.02.171.2248.843.3173.7206.92.0
20086600350054142757370.71.781.1467.263.4280.4238.52.6
20094801390046161343446.73.091.2648.293.3876.3143.51.1
20106705500047181448361.32.64.9957.043.0071.5158.91.7
2011600631003981535353.71.341.0065.873.3286.9284.92.1
20125701190043161732345.73.151.3146.313.6293.3122.80.8
20136804400045121937143.32.491.4777.683.1081.7152.21.1
20145500410036212025238.04.971.4745.924.11107.576.8-0.2

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
619
PA
58
AB
45
R
3
H
3
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
3
SO
17
SB
0
BA
.0667
OBP
.1250
SLG
.0667
OPS
.1917

Pitching

G (P)
619
213th-most career G (P)
GS
50
W
38
L
40
SV
27
CG
1
SHO
1
IP
751
SO (P)
575
BB allowed
279
ERA
3.558
WHIP
1.3416
K/9
6.89

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
2000-07-27CHC @ PHI Gameday201000111
2000-04-25CHC @ HOU Gameday311000001
2004-08-27SD @ WSH Gameday311000001
2000-04-09CHC @ CIN Gameday400000000
2000-04-15MIA @ CHC Gameday200000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
2005-09-02TB @ TOR Gameday7.07332111
2000-07-27CHC @ PHI Gameday5.2611480
2005-07-29TEX @ TOR Gameday5.0522281
2000-06-02DET @ CHC Gameday7.2800160
2000-04-15MIA @ CHC Gameday7.0422161

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.