Chris Michalak
Arizona Diamondbacks 1998; Texas Rangers 2001; Toronto Blue Jays 2001; Texas Rangers 2002; Cincinnati Reds 2006
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2001 | 35 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | 1.000 | 1.333 | 236.6 | 230.5 | .543 | 1.7 |
| 2002 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .375 | .708 | 81.3 | 78.1 | .321 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5.3 | 11.81 | 2.438 | 8.44 | 5.88 | 139.2 | 35.8 | -0.4 |
| 2001 | 35 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 157 | 67 | 55 | 67 | 19 | 136.7 | 4.41 | 1.551 | 4.41 | 5.42 | 118.5 | 103.6 | 1.7 |
| 2002 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 14.3 | 4.40 | 2.093 | 3.14 | 5.57 | 116.8 | 108.5 | 0.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 35.0 | 4.89 | 1.657 | 2.57 | 6.40 | 136.2 | 96.1 | 0.4 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-06-17 | TOR @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006-08-12 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006-08-18 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998-08-22 | AZ @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998-08-25 | PIT @ AZ Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-04-13 | KC @ TOR Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 2001-05-03 | TOR @ ATH Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001-04-07 | TOR @ NYY Gameday | 5.1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001-06-06 | TB @ TOR Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001-05-15 | TOR @ LAA Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 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.