Eric Milton
Minnesota Twins 1998–2003; Philadelphia Phillies 2004; Cincinnati Reds 2005–2007; Los Angeles Dodgers 2009
Percentile snapshot
2005 season — qualified pitchers
of 93 qualified 2005 pitchers (min 163 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 32 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .444 | .444 | .444 | .889 | 136.9 | 131.9 | .399 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 34 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 32.3 | -5.5 | .246 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 33 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 2.4 |
| 2001 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 | 117.1 | 114.6 | .357 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | 75 | 65 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .200 | .169 | .369 | -11.5 | -2.9 | .176 | 1.1 |
| 2005 | 34 | 64 | 56 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .186 | .268 | .454 | 6.5 | 17.1 | .204 | -2.7 |
| 2006 | 28 | 58 | 49 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .224 | .250 | .327 | .577 | 36.3 | 43.6 | .253 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -46.4 | -26.9 | .129 | 0.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .111 | -71.7 | -66.4 | .082 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 32 | 32 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 195 | 108 | 70 | 107 | 25 | 172.3 | 5.64 | 1.538 | 5.59 | 5.12 | 108.6 | 83.6 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 34 | 34 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 190 | 103 | 63 | 163 | 28 | 206.3 | 4.49 | 1.226 | 7.11 | 4.35 | 86.7 | 111.6 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 33 | 33 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 205 | 108 | 44 | 160 | 35 | 200.0 | 4.86 | 1.245 | 7.20 | 4.66 | 91.9 | 104.5 | 2.4 |
| 2001 | 35 | 34 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 222 | 106 | 61 | 157 | 35 | 220.7 | 4.32 | 1.282 | 6.40 | 4.63 | 101.8 | 105.3 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 29 | 29 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 173 | 92 | 30 | 121 | 24 | 171.0 | 4.84 | 1.187 | 6.37 | 4.05 | 90.6 | 92.3 | 1.1 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 17.0 | 2.65 | .941 | 3.71 | 3.98 | 86.8 | 173.0 | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 34 | 34 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 196 | 106 | 75 | 161 | 43 | 201.0 | 4.75 | 1.348 | 7.21 | 5.27 | 121.5 | 91.4 | 1.1 |
| 2005 | 34 | 34 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 237 | 134 | 52 | 123 | 40 | 186.3 | 6.47 | 1.551 | 5.94 | 5.41 | 126.7 | 66.0 | -2.7 |
| 2006 | 26 | 26 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 163 | 88 | 42 | 90 | 29 | 152.7 | 5.19 | 1.343 | 5.31 | 5.32 | 113.4 | 90.5 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 18 | 9 | 18 | 4 | 31.3 | 5.17 | 1.532 | 5.17 | 4.55 | 98.7 | 89.2 | 0.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 2 | 23.7 | 3.80 | 1.521 | 7.61 | 3.48 | 86.8 | 105.4 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-05-08 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005-07-26 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005-05-23 | WSH @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006-04-13 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2002-06-15 | MIN @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-09-11 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 |
| 2004-07-25 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 8.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 1999-08-11 | TOR @ MIN Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| 2002-08-01 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 1999-08-27 | KC @ MIN Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.