Will Venable
San Diego Padres 2008–2015; Texas Rangers 2015; Los Angeles Dodgers 2016
Percentile snapshot
2013 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 2013 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 28 | 124 | 110 | 16 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .264 | .339 | .391 | .730 | 100.7 | 100.5 | .327 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 95 | 324 | 293 | 38 | 75 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 38 | 25 | 89 | 6 | 1 | .256 | .323 | .440 | .763 | 106.8 | 107.4 | .338 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 131 | 445 | 392 | 60 | 96 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 51 | 45 | 128 | 29 | 7 | .245 | .324 | .408 | .732 | 100.0 | 103.6 | .322 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 121 | 411 | 370 | 49 | 91 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 44 | 31 | 92 | 26 | 3 | .246 | .310 | .395 | .704 | 96.0 | 98.3 | .313 | 0.7 |
| 2012 | 148 | 470 | 417 | 62 | 110 | 26 | 8 | 9 | 45 | 41 | 94 | 24 | 6 | .264 | .335 | .429 | .765 | 114.3 | 113.0 | .338 | 1.8 |
| 2013 | 151 | 515 | 481 | 64 | 129 | 22 | 8 | 22 | 53 | 29 | 118 | 22 | 6 | .268 | .312 | .484 | .796 | 123.0 | 124.5 | .346 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 146 | 448 | 406 | 47 | 91 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 33 | 33 | 107 | 11 | 6 | .224 | .288 | .325 | .613 | 74.7 | 76.6 | .279 | -0.2 |
| 2015 | 135 | 390 | 349 | 40 | 85 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 33 | 37 | 94 | 16 | 1 | .244 | .320 | .350 | .669 | 85.7 | 85.0 | .302 | 0.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .105 | .111 | .216 | -52.2 | -40.9 | .105 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-05-19 | SD @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2011-08-10 | SD @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2013-08-23 | CHC @ SD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2010-04-12 | ATL @ SD Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 2015-05-08 | SD @ AZ Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 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.