Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Leaders & Records > Active Def. Games as P
Active Leaders & Records for Def. Games as P
Baseball Leaders & Baseball Records:
Single-Season
Career
Active
Progressive
Year-by-Year Top-Tens
Yearly League
+ - Indicates Hall of Famer. Bold indicates active player.
Statistic Description: Defensive Games PlayedGames played at this position.
Minimum of 1000 IP, 3000 PA, 500 games (fielding), 200 stolen base attempts (catchers) or 80 stolen base attempts (baserunners only since 1951) or 100 decisions for career and active leaderboards for rate statistics.
| Rank | Player (yrs, age) | Def. Games as P | Throws |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mariano Rivera (19, 43) | 1069 | R |
| 2. | LaTroy Hawkins (19, 40) | 888 | R |
| 3. | Kyle Farnsworth (15, 37) | 822 | R |
| 4. | Octavio Dotel (15, 39) | 758 | R |
| 5. | Darren Oliver (20, 42) | 732 | L |
| 6. | Francisco Rodriguez (11, 31) | 682 | R |
| 7. | Derek Lowe (17, 40) | 680 | R |
| J.C. Romero (14, 37) | 680 | L | |
| 9. | Dennys Reyes (15, 36) | 673 | L |
| 10. | Joe Nathan (13, 38) | 663 | R |
| 11. | Miguel Batista (18, 42) | 658 | R |
| 12. | Jeremy Affeldt (12, 34) | 633 | L |
| 13. | Rafael Betancourt (11, 38) | 619 | R |
| 14. | Chad Qualls (10, 34) | 611 | R |
| 15. | Jamey Wright (18, 38) | 609 | R |
| 16. | Jose Valverde (11, 35) | 592 | R |
| 17. | Dan Wheeler (13, 35) | 589 | R |
| 18. | Javier Lopez (11, 35) | 577 | L |
| 19. | Matt Thornton (10, 36) | 564 | L |
| 20. | Ryan Dempster (16, 36) | 555 | R |
| Jon Rauch (11, 34) | 555 | R | |
| 22. | Brandon Lyon (12, 33) | 553 | R |
| 23. | Luis Vizcaino (11, 38) | 543 | R |
| 24. | Jason Frasor (10, 35) | 540 | R |
| 25. | Shawn Camp (10, 37) | 531 | R |
| 26. | J.J. Putz (11, 36) | 528 | R |
| 27. | Heath Bell (10, 35) | 526 | R |
| 28. | Kevin Gregg (11, 35) | 519 | R |
| 29. | Jesse Crain (10, 31) | 514 | R |
| 30. | Scott Downs (12, 37) | 513 | L |
| 31. | Fernando Rodney (11, 36) | 510 | R |
| 32. | Andy Pettitte (18, 41) | 508 | L |
| 33. | Luis Ayala (9, 35) | 502 | R |
| 34. | Matt Guerrier (10, 34) | 495 | R |
| 35. | Joaquin Benoit (12, 35) | 492 | R |
| 36. | Ryan Madson (9, 32) | 491 | R |
| 37. | Randy Choate (13, 37) | 488 | L |
| 38. | Jonathan Papelbon (9, 32) | 482 | R |
| 39. | Huston Street (9, 29) | 473 | R |
| 40. | Rafael Soriano (12, 33) | 470 | R |
See Front Page for time of last update
Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information
both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of
charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.
Win
Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and
co-author of The
Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.
Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations
provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.
Full-year
historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary
Gillette of 24-7
Baseball.
Some
defensive statistics Copyright BIS, 2010-2011 
.
.Player head
shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only
selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we
believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will
quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the
case.Please let us know if you are aware of any
such images on this site.
Play Index
Loading Photos from the George Grantham
Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.
A Sports Reference Site:
About Baseball Reference |
Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data
Partner of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties.