MLB / Players

Gene Michael

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 183 lb

BornJune 2, 1938 · Kent, OH, USA

MLB debutJuly 15, 1966

Final gameSeptember 9, 1975

Seasons10 (1966–1975)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1966; Los Angeles Dodgers 1967; New York Yankees 1968–1974; Detroit Tigers 1975

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified batters

139

514

3.6

456

8.9

0.9

102

1.8

9.8

14.3

RBI

6.3

48.2

23.2

55.4

.224

1.8

OBP

.299

13.4

SLG

.276

1.8

OPS

.576

1.8

wRC+

61.6

1.8

OPS+

65.3

2.7

wOBA

.273

1.8

sWAR

0.1

2.7

of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

64.9

1.6

OPS+

66.5

1.5

sWAR

2.5

72.1

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
1966	30	33	33	9	5	2	1	0	2	0	7	0	0	.152	.152	.273	.424	3.3	15.4	.185	-0.2
1967	98	245	223	20	45	3	1	0	7	11	30	1	3	.202	.246	.224	.470	41.7	41.7	.227	-0.4
1968	61	119	116	8	23	3	0	1	8	2	23	3	2	.198	.218	.250	.468	34.7	44.3	.220	-0.1
1969	119	464	412	41	112	24	4	2	31	43	56	7	4	.272	.341	.364	.705	105.1	102.2	.332	2.5
1970	134	493	435	42	93	10	1	2	38	50	93	3	1	.214	.292	.255	.548	55.9	56.7	.262	-0.3
1971	139	514	456	36	102	15	0	3	35	48	64	3	3	.224	.299	.276	.576	61.6	65.3	.273	0.1
1972	126	430	391	29	91	7	4	1	32	32	45	4	2	.233	.290	.279	.568	69.1	72.9	.271	0.7
1973	129	446	418	30	94	11	1	3	47	26	51	1	3	.225	.270	.278	.547	55.9	57.8	.260	-0.1
1974	81	193	177	19	46	9	0	0	13	14	24	0	0	.260	.313	.311	.623	83.7	82.1	.297	0.6
1975	56	158	145	15	31	2	0	3	13	8	28	0	0	.214	.253	.290	.543	45.2	50.1	.255	-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
1968	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	3	0	3.0	0.00	1.667	9.00	1.22	42.3	—	-0.1

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

973

3,095

2,806

249

642

RBI

226

234

421

.2288

OBP

.2884

SLG

.2840

OPS

.5724

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.6667

K/9

9.00

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
1970-06-17	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	6
1973-05-25	TEX @ NYY Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	3	1	5
1969-08-12	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	5
1971-06-23	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	2	5
1973-04-07	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	SO
1968-08-26	LAA @ NYY Gameday	3.0	5	5	3
1966-04-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1966-05-17	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1966-05-18	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1966-05-31	CHC @ PIT Gameday	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.