Todd Van Poppel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 210 lb

BornDecember 9, 1971 · Hinsdale, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1991

Final gameOctober 2, 2004

Seasons11 (1991–2004)

Oakland Athletics 1991; Oakland Athletics 1993–1995; Detroit Tigers 1996; Oakland Athletics 1996; Pittsburgh Pirates 1998; Texas Rangers 1998; Chicago Cubs 2000–2001; Texas Rangers 2002; Cincinnati Reds 2003; Texas Rangers 2003; Cincinnati Reds 2004

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified pitchers

34.1

22.7

14.8

SHO

108

96.6

22.7

30.7

21.6

116.7

6.8

ERA

6.09

4.5

WHIP

1.689

2.3

K/9

6.40

53.4

FIP

6.37

1.1

FIP-

141.1

ERA+

74.1

2.3

sWAR

-0.7

4.5

of 89 qualified 1994 pitchers (min 114 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-1.5

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	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1991	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
1993	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1994	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
1995	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1996	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-3.1
1998	22	18	14	3	3	1	1	1	4	.214	.267	.286	.552	42.1	45.8	.255	-0.7
2000	51	11	9	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.8	-100.0	.000	1.4
2001	59	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	3	.286	.286	.286	.571	49.7	53.1	.256	2.1
2002	50	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.8	-100.0	.000	0.2
2003	16	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	-59.9	-41.4	.100	-0.2
2004	48	23	17	1	3	0	1	1	6	.176	.222	.176	.399	0.0	6.0	.191	-1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1991	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	5	2	6	1	4.7	9.64	1.929	11.57	4.41	113.7	40.2	-0.3
1993	16	16	6	6	0	0	0	76	47	62	47	10	84.0	5.04	1.643	5.04	5.72	138.3	82.1	0.0
1994	23	23	7	10	0	0	0	108	79	89	83	20	116.7	6.09	1.689	6.40	6.37	141.1	74.1	-0.7
1995	36	14	4	8	0	1	0	125	75	56	122	16	138.3	4.88	1.308	7.94	4.18	92.0	93.2	0.9
1996	37	15	3	9	1	1	1	139	100	62	53	24	99.3	9.06	2.023	4.80	7.29	146.2	55.0	-3.1
1998	22	11	2	4	0	0	0	79	47	28	42	9	66.3	6.38	1.613	5.70	4.92	109.5	69.6	-0.7
2000	51	2	4	5	2	0	0	80	36	48	77	10	86.3	3.75	1.483	8.03	4.52	100.5	119.7	1.4
2001	59	0	4	1	0	0	0	63	21	38	90	9	75.0	2.52	1.347	10.80	3.69	89.1	164.1	2.1
2002	50	0	3	2	1	0	0	80	44	29	85	14	72.7	5.45	1.500	10.53	4.55	95.3	87.6	0.2
2003	16	5	3	1	0	0	0	51	30	15	34	8	48.3	5.59	1.366	6.33	4.75	107.4	79.4	-0.2
2004	48	11	4	6	0	0	0	136	78	32	72	22	115.3	6.09	1.457	5.62	5.10	119.3	70.2	-1.2

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

359

RBI

.1579

OBP

.1864

SLG

.1754

OPS

.3618

Pitching

G (P)

359

SHO

907

SO (P)

711

BB allowed

461

ERA

5.577

WHIP

1.5491

K/9

7.06

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	RBI	BB	TB
1998-08-24	STL @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	0	2
2004-04-24	CIN @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
1998-07-27	PIT @ COL Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1
1998-08-02	HOU @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	0	1
2001-05-23	CIN @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1995-09-12	KC @ ATH Gameday	8.0	7	3	3	2	9	1
1995-08-02	TEX @ ATH Gameday	6.0	6	5	5	4	9	2
2003-09-10	PIT @ CIN Gameday	6.0	6	1	1	0	9	1
1995-08-22	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6.0	4	2	2	3	8	0
2000-09-18	CHC @ MIL Gameday	5.2	4	1	1	2	8	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.