Don Mincher

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornJune 24, 1938 · Huntsville, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1960

Final gameOctober 4, 1972

Seasons13 (1960–1972)

Washington Senators 1960; Minnesota Twins 1961–1966; California Angels 1967–1968; Seattle Pilots 1969; Oakland Athletics 1970–1971; Washington Senators 1971; Oakland Athletics 1972; Texas Rangers 1972

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified batters

140

20.4

533

13.3

463

17.7

114

5.3

18.6

77.9

RBI

50.4

46.9

50.4

42.5

.246

12.4

OBP

.327

25.7

SLG

.460

62.8

OPS

.787

49.6

wRC+

114.2

49.6

OPS+

119.5

60.2

wOBA

.347

38.9

sWAR

1.4

26.5

of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.0

OPS+

126.5

sWAR

20.5

93.8

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
1960	27	92	79	10	19	4	1	2	5	11	11	0	1	.241	.330	.392	.722	93.9	92.1	.333	0.1
1961	35	123	101	18	19	5	1	5	11	22	11	0	1	.188	.333	.406	.739	98.0	93.6	.342	0.1
1962	86	157	121	20	29	1	1	9	29	34	24	0	0	.240	.406	.488	.894	140.5	136.7	.400	1.1
1963	82	262	225	41	58	8	0	17	42	30	51	0	0	.258	.351	.520	.871	143.8	139.5	.385	1.7
1964	120	320	287	45	68	12	4	23	56	27	51	0	0	.237	.300	.547	.847	128.1	130.0	.364	1.5
1965	128	403	346	43	87	17	3	22	65	49	73	1	3	.251	.344	.509	.853	130.0	136.3	.367	1.8
1966	139	497	431	53	108	30	0	14	62	58	68	3	2	.251	.340	.418	.758	112.9	112.7	.339	1.2
1967	147	563	487	81	133	23	3	25	76	69	69	0	3	.273	.367	.487	.854	156.6	154.5	.385	4.3
1968	120	458	399	35	94	12	1	13	48	43	65	0	2	.236	.312	.368	.680	107.8	108.9	.314	0.8
1969	140	513	427	53	105	14	0	25	78	78	69	10	11	.246	.366	.454	.821	128.2	129.1	.372	2.3
1970	140	533	463	62	114	18	0	27	74	56	71	5	4	.246	.327	.460	.787	114.2	119.5	.347	1.4
1971	128	497	415	44	116	21	2	12	53	73	66	3	2	.280	.386	.427	.812	137.1	132.4	.377	2.8
1972	108	307	245	25	53	11	0	6	44	56	39	2	3	.216	.363	.335	.697	125.3	113.2	.344	1.3

Career totals

1,400

4,725

4,026

530

1,003

176

200

384th-most career HR

RBI

643

606

668

.2491

OBP

.3484

SLG

.4498

483rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7982

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	HR	RBI	TB
1969-07-06	MIL @ KC Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	10
1968-06-02	LAA @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	1	8
1962-04-28	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	5	8
1970-04-18	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	5	8
1963-07-20	TEX @ MIN Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	4	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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.