Steve Trachsel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 31, 1970 · Oxnard, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 19, 1993

Final gameJune 7, 2008

Seasons16 (1993–2008)

Chicago Cubs 1993–1999; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2000; Toronto Blue Jays 2000; New York Mets 2001–2006; Baltimore Orioles 2007; Chicago Cubs 2007; Baltimore Orioles 2008

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified pitchers

10.8

65.1

75.9

34.9

SHO

185

83.1

14.5

3.6

44.6

164.7

2.4

ERA

4.97

14.5

WHIP

1.597

2.4

K/9

4.32

4.8

FIP

5.46

4.8

FIP-

125.1

3.6

ERA+

87.8

9.6

sWAR

0.7

10.8

of 84 qualified 2006 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.8

32.5

sWAR

24.2

95.1

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1993	3	7	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	35.5	26.0	.237	0.1
1994	22	52	43	3	8	1	0	0	2	0	9	0	1	.186	.205	.209	.414	1.0	9.1	.190	3.1
1995	30	58	49	3	13	2	0	0	4	2	17	0	0	.265	.288	.306	.595	55.4	58.4	.271	0.1
1996	31	73	66	3	7	2	0	1	5	1	20	0	0	.106	.119	.182	.301	-35.2	-22.5	.134	4.8
1997	34	76	60	5	7	3	0	0	4	5	19	0	0	.117	.185	.167	.351	-14.7	-7.8	.172	1.5
1998	33	80	64	11	17	3	0	1	8	7	18	0	0	.266	.338	.359	.697	84.2	81.2	.321	2.6
1999	34	71	63	4	7	1	0	0	0	1	25	1	0	.111	.125	.127	.252	-48.7	-35.4	.116	-0.5
2000	34	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	87.4	71.8	.327	2.3
2001	28	61	56	2	9	1	0	0	2	0	13	0	0	.161	.161	.179	.339	-20.4	-9.9	.150	1.1
2002	31	56	46	4	5	0	1	0	4	1	19	0	0	.109	.128	.152	.280	-40.6	-25.3	.129	2.8
2003	36	72	58	3	11	2	0	0	4	2	16	0	0	.190	.213	.224	.437	7.6	16.0	.199	3.1
2004	35	71	59	6	11	1	0	0	5	1	17	0	0	.186	.200	.203	.403	-4.4	5.9	.183	2.6
2005	6	15	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	.067	.067	.067	.133	-88.7	-64.3	.060	0.3
2006	30	59	50	4	7	1	0	1	2	4	13	0	0	.140	.218	.220	.438	13.5	15.0	.207	0.7
2007	29	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.083	.083	.083	.167	-78.0	-57.4	.075	1.0
2008	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1993	3	3	0	2	0	0	16	10	3	14	4	19.7	4.58	.966	6.41	4.65	116.3	87.5	0.1
1994	22	22	9	7	1	0	133	52	54	108	19	146.0	3.21	1.281	6.66	4.45	106.3	130.6	3.1
1995	30	29	7	13	2	0	174	92	76	117	25	160.7	5.15	1.556	6.55	5.05	122.0	80.3	0.1
1996	31	31	13	9	3	2	181	69	62	132	30	205.0	3.03	1.185	5.80	4.73	109.7	142.4	4.8
1997	34	34	8	12	0	0	225	101	69	160	32	201.3	4.51	1.460	7.15	4.65	108.3	95.2	1.5
1998	33	33	15	8	1	0	204	103	84	149	27	208.0	4.46	1.385	6.45	4.65	106.1	98.4	2.6
1999	34	34	8	18	4	0	226	127	64	149	32	205.7	5.56	1.410	6.52	4.62	102.3	81.3	-0.5
2000	34	34	8	15	3	1	232	107	74	110	26	200.7	4.80	1.525	4.93	5.01	101.9	102.3	2.3
2001	28	28	11	13	1	1	168	86	47	144	28	173.7	4.46	1.238	7.46	4.31	103.7	93.2	1.1
2002	30	30	11	11	1	1	170	65	69	105	16	173.7	3.37	1.376	5.44	4.06	101.8	118.4	2.8
2003	33	33	16	10	2	2	204	86	65	111	26	204.7	3.78	1.314	4.88	4.54	108.4	110.8	3.1
2004	33	33	12	13	0	0	203	90	83	117	25	202.7	4.00	1.411	5.20	4.71	110.7	106.4	2.6
2005	6	6	1	4	0	0	37	17	12	24	6	37.0	4.14	1.324	5.84	4.86	117.4	100.1	0.3
2006	30	30	15	8	1	0	185	91	78	79	23	164.7	4.97	1.597	4.32	5.46	125.1	87.8	0.7
2007	29	29	7	11	1	0	176	86	76	56	19	158.0	4.90	1.595	3.19	5.63	122.8	93.6	1.0
2008	10	8	2	5	0	0	53	37	27	16	10	39.7	8.39	2.017	3.63	7.75	174.6	52.9	-1.3

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

426

768

651

106

RBI

200

.1628

OBP

.1968

SLG

.2058

OPS

.4026

Pitching

G (P)

420

417

119th-most career GS

143

292nd-most career W

159

127th-most career L

SHO

2,501

255th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,591

203rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

943

141st-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.387

WHIP

1.4114

K/9

5.73

435th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1995-08-04	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	0	0	4
1998-08-28	CHC @ COL Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	1	4
1996-06-03	PHI @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
2006-06-20	CIN @ NYM Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1998-04-21	SD @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2000-05-06	TB @ BOS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	11	0
2001-08-25	SF @ NYM Gameday	7.0	4	1	1	3	11	1
1998-07-17	CHC @ MIA Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	9	0
1998-07-02	AZ @ CHC Gameday	7.2	7	1	1	2	9	0
1994-05-09	CHC @ STL Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	0	9	1

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

1× 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.