Wes Helms

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 230 lb

BornMay 12, 1976 · Gastonia, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1998

Final gameAugust 13, 2011

Seasons13 (1998–2011)

Atlanta Braves 1998; Atlanta Braves 2000–2002; Milwaukee Brewers 2003–2005; Florida Marlins 2006; Philadelphia Phillies 2007; Florida Marlins 2008–2011

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified batters

134

13.9

536

18.8

476

14.5

6.1

124

14.5

9.7

65.5

RBI

33.9

30.9

131

6.1

76.4

.261

24.2

OBP

.330

27.3

SLG

.450

44.8

OPS

.780

wRC+

100.4

35.2

OPS+

101.3

34.5

wOBA

.341

36.4

sWAR

2.0

37.6

of 166 qualified 2003 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.6

OPS+

87.6

19.3

sWAR

3.2

74.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1998	7	13	13	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	4	0	0	.308	.308	.615	.923	137.2	137.6	.393	0.1
2000	6	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-6.6	2.7	.180	0.0
2001	100	239	216	28	48	10	3	10	36	21	56	1	1	.222	.293	.435	.728	82.6	84.9	.314	-0.4
2002	85	231	210	20	51	16	0	6	22	11	57	1	1	.243	.283	.405	.687	72.8	79.8	.298	-0.4
2003	134	536	476	56	124	21	0	23	67	43	131	0	1	.261	.330	.450	.780	100.4	101.3	.341	2.0
2004	92	306	274	24	72	13	1	4	28	24	60	0	1	.263	.331	.361	.692	80.2	78.9	.313	0.3
2005	95	188	168	18	50	13	1	4	24	14	30	0	1	.298	.356	.458	.815	113.9	111.8	.360	0.8
2006	140	278	240	30	79	19	5	10	47	21	55	0	4	.329	.390	.575	.965	146.9	146.0	.411	1.8
2007	112	308	280	21	69	19	0	5	39	19	62	0	0	.246	.297	.368	.665	66.2	69.9	.294	-0.3
2008	132	278	251	28	61	11	0	5	31	17	65	0	0	.243	.299	.347	.645	65.4	67.5	.291	-0.5
2009	113	234	214	18	58	11	0	3	33	13	54	1	1	.271	.318	.364	.682	76.2	78.5	.307	0.1
2010	127	287	254	25	56	12	4	4	39	26	76	0	2	.220	.300	.346	.646	72.0	72.5	.294	0.1
2011	69	124	110	10	21	5	0	0	6	11	35	0	0	.191	.276	.236	.513	41.0	43.1	.244	-0.5

Career totals

1,212

3,027

2,711

280

694

151

RBI

374

220

687

.2560

OBP

.3181

SLG

.4050

OPS

.7231

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	TB
2001-08-04	ATL @ MIL Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	7	11
2002-07-24	ATL @ MIA Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	3	9
2003-06-21	MIN @ MIL Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	5	9
2006-06-14	ATL @ MIA Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
2003-05-16	CIN @ MIL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	5	8

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.