Eddie Miksis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 11, 1926 · Burlington, NJ, USA

MLB debutJune 17, 1944

Final gameSeptember 26, 1958

Seasons14 (1944–1958)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1944; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946–1951; Chicago Cubs 1951–1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957; St. Louis Cardinals 1957; Baltimore Orioles 1958; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified batters

131

13.6

524

17.3

481

23.5

12.3

113

8.6

9.9

11.1

24.7

RBI

7.4

6.2

50.6

.235

3.7

OBP

.282

1.2

SLG

.328

4.9

OPS

.611

2.5

wRC+

58.1

1.2

OPS+

60.9

wOBA

.276

1.2

sWAR

-1.0

of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

58.2

0.6

OPS+

61.8

0.7

sWAR

-5.1

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
1944	26	98	91	12	20	2	0	0	11	6	11	4	0	.220	.268	.242	.510	39.7	44.0	.247	-0.3
1946	23	53	48	3	7	0	0	0	5	3	3	0	0	.146	.212	.146	.357	-8.9	2.2	.186	-0.5
1947	45	95	86	18	23	1	0	4	10	9	8	0	0	.267	.337	.419	.755	95.9	97.4	.346	0.2
1948	86	244	221	28	47	7	1	2	16	19	27	5	0	.213	.278	.281	.559	46.5	50.1	.266	-0.7
1949	50	127	113	17	25	5	0	1	6	7	8	3	0	.221	.267	.292	.559	42.0	48.0	.260	-0.4
1950	51	87	76	13	19	2	1	2	10	5	10	3	0	.250	.296	.382	.678	71.5	76.0	.305	0.1
1951	121	473	431	54	114	14	3	4	35	34	38	11	5	.265	.320	.339	.658	73.4	75.5	.305	0.2
1952	93	407	383	44	89	20	1	2	19	20	32	4	4	.232	.272	.305	.578	51.9	58.5	.268	-0.7
1953	142	624	577	61	145	17	6	8	39	33	59	13	4	.251	.293	.343	.636	58.6	62.9	.287	-0.8
1954	38	104	99	9	20	3	0	2	3	3	9	1	0	.202	.225	.293	.518	20.4	33.1	.232	-0.6
1955	131	524	481	52	113	14	2	9	41	32	55	3	6	.235	.282	.328	.611	58.1	60.9	.276	-1.0
1956	114	395	356	54	85	10	3	9	27	32	40	4	2	.239	.303	.360	.662	78.1	77.8	.299	0.4
1957	50	46	39	3	8	0	0	1	2	7	7	0	0	.205	.326	.282	.608	65.8	64.9	.284	-0.2
1958	72	61	52	15	7	0	0	0	4	5	6	1	1	.135	.211	.135	.345	-15.2	-7.9	.176	-0.7

Career totals

1,042

3,338

3,053

383

722

RBI

228

215

313

.2365

OBP

.2879

SLG

.3220

OPS

.6099

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
1956-06-07	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	2	9
1948-09-28	ATL @ LAD Gameday	7	2	3	1	0	1	3	7
1953-06-21	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	1	7
1953-06-29	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	1	7
1950-07-06	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-19	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-20	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-21	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-22	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.