Steve Kline

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 22, 1972 · Sunbury, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 2, 1997

Final gameSeptember 25, 2007

Seasons11 (1997–2007)

Cleveland Indians 1997; Montreal Expos 1997–2000; St. Louis Cardinals 2001–2004; Baltimore Orioles 2005; San Francisco Giants 2006–2007

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

13.2

89.8

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	RBI	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1997	46	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.9	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1998	78	5	4	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	1.8
1999	82	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.7	-100.0	.000	1.3
2000	83	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.1	-100.0	.000	1.9
2001	89	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	172.7	162.7	.448	2.8
2002	66	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.6	-100.0	.000	1.0
2003	78	3	2	0	1	1	2	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	300.7	285.6	.636	0.9
2004	67	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2005	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
2006	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
2007	68	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.8	-100.0	.000	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1997	46	1	4	4	0	73	35	23	37	10	52.7	5.98	1.823	6.32	5.60	126.0	73.9	-0.4
1998	78	0	3	6	1	62	22	41	76	4	71.7	2.76	1.437	9.54	3.51	83.6	152.2	1.8
1999	82	0	7	4	0	56	29	33	69	8	69.7	3.75	1.278	8.91	4.14	91.5	120.6	1.3
2000	83	0	1	5	14	88	32	27	64	8	82.3	3.50	1.397	7.00	3.86	79.8	138.1	1.9
2001	89	0	3	3	9	53	15	29	54	3	75.0	1.80	1.093	6.48	3.41	79.1	239.1	2.8
2002	66	0	2	1	6	54	22	21	41	3	58.3	3.39	1.286	6.33	3.27	81.5	118.3	1.0
2003	78	0	5	5	3	56	27	30	31	5	63.7	3.82	1.351	4.38	4.58	110.6	108.5	0.9
2004	67	0	2	2	3	37	10	17	35	3	50.3	1.79	1.073	6.26	3.59	84.7	237.0	1.9
2005	67	0	2	4	0	59	29	30	36	11	61.0	4.28	1.459	5.31	5.69	131.4	101.2	0.6
2006	72	0	4	3	1	53	21	26	33	3	51.7	3.66	1.529	5.75	4.15	93.1	122.0	0.9
2007	68	0	1	2	2	58	24	18	17	2	46.0	4.70	1.652	3.33	4.31	96.7	94.9	0.3

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

796

RBI

.1429

OBP

.1429

SLG

.2143

OPS

.3572

Pitching

G (P)

796

60th-most career G (P)

447th-most career SV

SHO

682

SO (P)

493

BB allowed

295

ERA

3.509

WHIP

1.3835

K/9

6.50

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	H	2B	RBI	TB
2003-08-01	STL @ NYM Gameday	1	1	1	2	2
2001-08-18	PHI @ STL Gameday	1	1	0	0	1
1997-08-05	LAD @ WSH Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1997-08-07	LAD @ WSH Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1997-08-10	SF @ WSH Gameday	1	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1999-08-17	WSH @ SF Gameday	1.2	1	0	0	0	6
1999-05-23	MIL @ WSH Gameday	2.2	1	2	2	1	5
2000-04-08	SD @ WSH Gameday	2.1	0	0	0	0	4
1998-08-09	AZ @ WSH Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	4
1998-09-05	WSH @ MIA Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	4

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.