MLB / Players

Eddie Milner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 173 lb

BornMay 21, 1955 · Columbus, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1980

Final gameJuly 29, 1988

Seasons9 (1980–1988)

Cincinnati Reds 1980–1986; San Francisco Giants 1987; Cincinnati Reds 1988

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

145

35.3

520

9.6

453

8.8

71.3

115

8.8

16.2

83.8

9.6

RBI

4.4

66.2

97.8

91.2

5.9

.254

OBP

.342

54.4

SLG

.347

14.7

OPS

.688

21.3

wRC+

94.0

30.1

OPS+

89.7

22.8

wOBA

.325

32.4

sWAR

1.6

33.8

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.9

85.6

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
1980	6	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1981	8	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	.200	.333	.400	.733	114.4	106.6	.350	0.0
1982	113	452	407	61	109	23	5	4	31	41	40	18	12	.268	.338	.378	.716	103.6	99.0	.337	1.2
1983	146	584	502	77	131	23	6	9	33	68	60	41	12	.261	.350	.384	.734	105.9	100.5	.346	2.6
1984	117	397	336	44	78	8	4	7	29	51	50	21	13	.232	.333	.342	.676	90.7	87.1	.321	1.1
1985	145	520	453	82	115	19	7	3	33	61	31	35	13	.254	.342	.347	.688	94.0	89.7	.325	1.6
1986	145	462	424	70	110	22	6	15	47	36	56	18	11	.259	.317	.446	.762	105.9	105.3	.345	2.1
1987	101	239	214	38	54	14	0	4	19	24	33	10	9	.252	.328	.374	.702	90.7	90.2	.318	0.6
1988	23	55	51	3	9	1	0	0	2	4	9	2	2	.176	.236	.196	.432	21.1	24.0	.214	-0.3

Career totals

804

2,718

2,395

376

607

111

RBI

195

286

280

145

.2534

OBP

.3335

SLG

.3758

OPS

.7093

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
1987-08-05	SF @ HOU Gameday	6	2	5	3	0	0	1	8
1986-09-27	CIN @ SD Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1983-09-29	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	2	7
1982-05-02	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	0	7
1984-04-02	NYM @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	3	7

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.