Michael Taylor

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 215 lb

BornMarch 26, 1991 · Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

MLB debutAugust 12, 2014

Seasons12 (2014–2025)

Washington Nationals 2014–2020; Kansas City Royals 2021–2022; Minnesota Twins 2023; Pittsburgh Pirates 2024; Chicago White Sox 2025

Percentile snapshot

2021 season — qualified batters

142

32.8

528

9.9

483

19.1

6.9

118

15.3

2.3

16.8

RBI

13.7

11.5

144

26.7

78.6

3.8

.244

18.3

OBP

.297

6.1

SLG

.356

3.8

OPS

.653

2.3

wRC+

75.9

3.1

OPS+

76.6

2.3

wOBA

.286

2.3

sWAR

0.5

5.3

of 132 qualified 2021 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

78.0

8.4

OPS+

79.9

9.5

sWAR

3.1

74.3

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
2014	17	43	39	5	8	3	0	1	5	3	17	0	2	.205	.279	.359	.638	76.6	77.1	.290	0.0
2015	138	511	472	49	108	15	2	14	63	35	158	16	3	.229	.282	.358	.640	66.7	74.3	.279	-0.4
2016	76	237	221	28	51	11	0	7	16	14	77	14	3	.231	.278	.376	.654	70.3	72.4	.288	0.0
2017	118	432	399	55	108	23	3	19	53	29	137	17	7	.271	.320	.486	.806	103.9	105.2	.342	1.8
2018	134	385	353	46	80	22	3	6	28	29	116	24	6	.227	.287	.357	.644	67.8	70.3	.286	-0.1
2019	53	97	88	10	22	7	0	1	3	7	34	6	0	.250	.305	.364	.669	72.1	71.9	.293	0.0
2020	38	99	92	11	18	6	0	5	16	6	27	0	0	.196	.253	.424	.676	76.9	78.8	.289	-0.1
2021	142	528	483	58	118	16	1	12	54	33	144	14	7	.244	.297	.356	.653	75.9	76.6	.286	0.5
2022	124	456	414	49	105	10	3	9	43	35	109	4	2	.254	.313	.357	.670	88.7	88.3	.300	1.1
2023	129	388	355	48	78	14	1	21	51	26	130	13	1	.220	.278	.442	.720	95.6	96.8	.308	1.3
2024	113	300	269	35	52	9	1	5	21	23	105	12	1	.193	.253	.290	.543	51.1	52.1	.244	-0.6
2025	134	325	295	33	59	20	1	9	35	23	110	8	3	.200	.259	.366	.625	72.0	74.2	.271	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2022	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	2	2	1	2.0	9.00	3.500	9.00	10.55	260.2	45.0	1.1

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

1,216

3,801

3,480

427

807

156

109

RBI

388

263

1,164

261st-most career SO

128

.2319

OBP

.2876

SLG

.3793

OPS

.6669

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

9.000

WHIP

3.5000

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	TB
2017-06-24	CIN @ WSH Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	3	11
2016-06-19	WSH @ SD Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	2	2	11
2017-09-08	PHI @ WSH Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	5	9
2023-04-13	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
2023-08-24	TEX @ MIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2022-07-09	CLE @ KC Gameday	2.0	5	2	2	2	2	1

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× Gold Glove

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