MLB / Players

Michael Barrett

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 22, 1976 · Atlanta, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 19, 1998

Final gameApril 17, 2009

Seasons12 (1998–2009)

Montreal Expos 1998–2003; Chicago Cubs 2004–2007; San Diego Padres 2007–2008; Toronto Blue Jays 2009

Percentile snapshot

2004 season — qualified batters

134

10.6

506

0.6

456

3.8

2.5

131

16.9

55.6

81.9

35.6

RBI

28.1

11.3

81.9

8.8

37.5

.287

OBP

.337

29.4

SLG

.489

68.1

OPS

.826

58.8

wRC+

109.1

50.6

OPS+

110.9

55.6

wOBA

.354

51.9

sWAR

3.3

of 161 qualified 2004 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.7

OPS+

88.6

20.9

sWAR

13.3

89.9

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
1998	8	27	23	3	7	2	0	1	2	3	6	0	0	.304	.407	.522	.929	149.6	144.0	.413	0.3
1999	126	469	433	53	127	32	3	8	52	32	39	0	2	.293	.345	.436	.782	97.0	97.8	.345	1.9
2000	89	297	271	28	58	15	1	1	22	23	35	0	1	.214	.277	.288	.565	33.7	40.6	.253	-1.2
2001	132	506	472	42	118	33	2	6	38	25	54	2	1	.250	.289	.367	.655	62.3	65.6	.288	0.3
2002	117	428	376	41	99	20	1	12	49	40	65	6	3	.263	.332	.418	.749	85.7	89.3	.330	1.5
2003	70	252	226	33	47	9	2	10	30	21	37	0	0	.208	.280	.398	.678	62.3	72.3	.288	0.2
2004	134	506	456	55	131	32	6	16	65	33	64	1	4	.287	.337	.489	.826	109.1	110.9	.354	3.3
2005	133	477	424	48	117	32	3	16	61	40	61	0	3	.276	.345	.479	.824	112.1	111.4	.360	3.3
2006	107	418	375	54	115	25	3	16	53	33	41	0	1	.307	.368	.517	.885	123.1	120.9	.383	3.4
2007	101	367	344	29	84	17	0	9	41	19	57	2	2	.244	.281	.372	.653	61.8	67.4	.285	0.2
2008	30	107	94	9	19	3	0	2	9	9	16	0	0	.202	.274	.298	.571	57.1	57.5	.263	0.0
2009	7	19	18	3	3	0	0	1	2	1	5	0	0	.167	.211	.333	.544	16.7	40.9	.210	-0.1

Career totals

1,054

3,873

3,512

398

925

220

RBI

424

279

480

.2634

OBP

.3199

SLG

.4217

OPS

.7416

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
2005-06-07	TOR @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	9
2005-08-12	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	2	1	1	8
2004-04-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	8
2004-05-21	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	2	8
2006-07-02	CWS @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	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.

Honors

1× Silver Slugger

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