Michael Jackson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 22, 1964 · Houston, TX, USA

MLB debutAugust 11, 1986

Final gameAugust 29, 2004

Seasons17 (1986–2004)

Philadelphia Phillies 1986–1987; Seattle Mariners 1988–1991; San Francisco Giants 1992–1994; Cincinnati Reds 1995; Seattle Mariners 1996; Cleveland Indians 1997–1999; Houston Astros 2001; Minnesota Twins 2002; Chicago White Sox 2004

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

125.2

94.1

sWAR

23.0

94.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1987	55	21	17	2	2	0	0	1	3	.118	.167	.118	.284	-32.8	-23.9	.143	1.1
1988	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1989	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1990	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1991	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1992	67	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.0	-100.0	.000	0.4
1993	81	3	3	1	2	2	1	0	1	.667	.667	1.333	2.000	450.7	430.6	.863	1.7
1994	36	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.8	-100.0	.000	1.6
1995	40	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	27.1	33.5	.228	1.5
1996	73	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1997	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
1998	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
1999	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
2001	67	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.0	-100.0	.000	0.6
2002	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2004	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	9	0	0	0	0	12	5	4	3	2	13.3	3.38	1.200	2.03	5.60	145.7	113.8	0.2
1987	55	7	3	10	1	88	51	56	93	16	109.3	4.20	1.317	7.66	4.69	111.1	100.5	1.1
1988	62	0	6	5	4	74	29	43	76	10	99.3	2.63	1.178	6.89	3.96	95.9	157.2	2.7
1989	65	0	4	6	7	81	35	54	94	8	99.3	3.17	1.359	8.52	3.82	95.3	126.3	2.0
1990	63	0	5	7	3	64	39	44	69	8	77.3	4.54	1.397	8.03	4.15	105.1	87.0	0.2
1991	72	0	7	7	14	64	32	34	74	5	88.7	3.25	1.105	7.51	3.33	80.9	126.7	1.7
1992	67	0	6	6	2	76	34	33	80	7	82.0	3.73	1.329	8.78	3.29	97.9	90.0	0.4
1993	81	0	6	6	1	58	26	24	70	7	77.3	3.03	1.060	8.15	3.39	86.8	129.1	1.7
1994	36	0	3	2	4	23	7	11	51	4	42.3	1.49	.803	10.84	2.81	69.5	271.1	1.6
1995	40	0	6	1	2	38	13	19	41	5	49.0	2.39	1.163	7.53	3.94	95.2	173.5	1.5
1996	73	0	1	1	6	61	29	24	70	11	72.0	3.63	1.181	8.75	4.54	91.2	137.4	1.7
1997	71	0	2	5	15	59	27	29	74	3	75.0	3.24	1.173	8.88	3.01	64.6	143.9	1.9
1998	69	0	1	1	40	43	11	13	55	4	64.0	1.55	.875	7.73	3.11	65.6	306.7	2.8
1999	72	0	3	4	39	60	31	26	55	11	68.7	4.06	1.252	7.21	4.91	97.6	123.8	1.4
2001	67	0	5	3	4	68	36	22	46	14	69.0	4.70	1.304	6.00	5.35	116.5	97.9	0.6
2002	58	0	2	3	0	59	20	13	29	5	55.0	3.27	1.309	4.75	4.11	92.0	136.6	1.3
2004	45	0	2	0	0	55	26	15	26	7	46.7	5.01	1.500	5.01	5.15	108.9	94.3	0.3

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

1,005

RBI

.1786

OBP

.2069

SLG

.2500

OPS

.4569

Pitching

G (P)

1,005

15th-most career G (P)

142

102nd-most career SV

SHO

1,188

SO (P)

1,006

BB allowed

464

ERA

3.416

379th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2177

222nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.62

129th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
1995-10-06	LAD @ CIN Gameday	1	0	1	1	3	2
1993-05-29	SF @ ATL Gameday	1	0	1	1	1	2
1993-07-09	SF @ PHI Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	2
1987-06-18	PHI @ CHC Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1
1987-07-06	PHI @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-07-06	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4.1	3	0	0	1	7	0
1987-06-07	WSH @ PHI Gameday	8.2	2	1	1	4	6	0
1989-08-05	ATH @ SEA Gameday	4.0	2	1	1	2	6	1
1988-08-06	SEA @ ATH Gameday	3.2	1	1	0	1	6	0
1989-06-02	TEX @ SEA Gameday	3.2	3	1	1	1	6	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.