MLB / Players

Michael Brantley

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 209 lb

BornMay 15, 1987 · Bellevue, WA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 2009

Final gameOctober 1, 2023

Seasons15 (2009–2023)

Cleveland Indians 2009–2018; Houston Astros 2019–2023

Percentile snapshot

2021 season — qualified batters

121

0.8

508

2.3

469

12.2

19.8

146

59.5

53.4

63.4

5.3

RBI

4.6

11.5

99.2

11.5

.311

96.9

OBP

.362

79.4

SLG

.437

37.4

OPS

.799

54.2

wRC+

122.6

62.6

OPS+

121.6

62.6

wOBA

.347

59.5

sWAR

2.4

40.5

of 132 qualified 2021 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.2

76.6

OPS+

117.6

75.9

sWAR

28.9

96.3

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
2009	28	121	112	10	35	4	0	0	11	8	19	4	4	.313	.358	.348	.707	93.5	90.7	.322	0.3
2010	72	325	297	38	73	9	3	3	22	22	38	10	2	.246	.296	.327	.623	72.9	73.6	.284	0.1
2011	114	496	451	63	120	24	4	7	46	34	76	13	5	.266	.318	.384	.702	94.6	95.1	.311	1.1
2012	149	609	552	63	159	37	4	6	60	53	56	12	9	.288	.348	.402	.750	106.6	109.4	.326	2.8
2013	151	611	556	66	158	26	3	10	73	40	67	17	4	.284	.332	.396	.728	104.3	104.1	.323	1.7
2014	156	676	611	94	200	45	2	20	97	52	56	23	1	.327	.385	.506	.890	153.4	149.6	.392	6.1
2015	137	596	529	68	164	45	0	15	84	60	51	15	1	.310	.379	.480	.859	131.5	129.9	.369	3.7
2016	11	43	39	5	9	2	0	0	7	3	6	1	0	.231	.279	.282	.561	37.4	49.7	.240	-0.2
2017	90	375	338	47	101	20	1	9	52	31	50	11	1	.299	.357	.444	.801	109.5	109.7	.344	1.3
2018	143	630	570	89	176	36	2	17	76	48	60	12	3	.309	.364	.468	.832	128.1	126.0	.360	3.6
2019	148	637	575	88	179	40	2	22	90	51	66	3	2	.311	.372	.503	.875	130.7	130.0	.368	3.6
2020	46	187	170	24	51	15	0	5	22	17	28	2	0	.300	.364	.476	.840	131.1	129.8	.364	1.0
2021	121	508	469	68	146	29	3	8	47	33	53	1	0	.311	.362	.437	.799	122.6	121.6	.347	2.4
2022	64	277	243	28	70	14	1	5	26	31	30	1	1	.288	.370	.416	.785	128.8	126.5	.348	1.3
2023	15	57	54	7	15	2	0	2	7	2	2	0	0	.278	.298	.426	.724	95.7	98.9	.309	0.1

Career totals

1,445

6,148

5,566

758

1,656

348

321st-most career 2B

129

RBI

720

485

658

125

.2975

260th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3550

SLG

.4386

OPS

.7936

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	BB	TB
2013-07-07	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	5	0	10
2019-07-05	LAA @ HOU Gameday	4	3	4	2	1	1	0	9
2015-08-25	MIL @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	4	1	9
2019-07-21	TEX @ HOU Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	3	1	9
2020-10-08	ATH @ HOU Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	3	0	9

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 Slugger5× All-Star

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