MLB / Players

Mickey Lolich

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 12, 1940 · Portland, OR, USA

MLB debutMay 12, 1963

Final gameSeptember 23, 1979

Seasons16 (1963–1979)

Detroit Tigers 1963–1975; New York Mets 1976; San Diego Padres 1978–1979

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified pitchers

12.6

33.3

2.3

28.7

12.6

SHO

27.6

184

75.9

80.5

82.8

120

62.1

43.7

192.7

20.7

ERA

3.22

55.2

WHIP

1.225

64.4

K/9

5.61

FIP

3.16

73.6

FIP-

95.2

52.9

ERA+

102.8

39.1

sWAR

2.1

27.6

of 88 qualified 1976 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.8

52.4

sWAR

41.7

98.1

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1963	33	47	36	3	2	0	0	1	9	20	0	0	.056	.244	.056	.300	1.4	-11.1	.187	1.7
1964	44	86	64	9	7	0	0	4	11	32	0	0	.109	.260	.109	.369	15.0	7.1	.207	3.5
1965	43	91	86	3	5	0	0	0	2	37	0	0	.058	.080	.058	.138	-80.5	-60.2	.069	1.9
1966	40	73	64	12	9	0	1	3	7	28	0	0	.141	.225	.172	.397	14.0	15.4	.199	-1.2
1967	32	75	61	4	12	0	0	4	7	25	0	0	.197	.279	.197	.476	44.5	42.1	.240	3.0
1968	41	80	70	5	8	3	0	3	6	25	0	1	.114	.184	.157	.341	-6.1	3.8	.173	1.7
1969	38	113	91	6	8	0	1	5	9	41	0	0	.088	.168	.110	.278	-29.5	-21.6	.149	4.5
1970	42	101	82	4	11	0	0	3	12	29	1	0	.134	.245	.134	.379	10.5	7.5	.204	2.6
1971	45	148	115	9	15	2	0	7	16	55	0	0	.130	.242	.148	.390	13.4	12.3	.209	6.8
1972	41	121	89	3	6	0	0	0	20	39	0	0	.067	.245	.067	.313	6.8	-3.8	.195	6.0
1973	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.8
1974	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1975	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9
1976	31	71	54	5	7	0	0	1	5	25	0	0	.130	.217	.130	.346	5.8	3.4	.186	2.1
1978	20	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.4	-100.0	.000	1.1
1979	27	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.000	.143	.000	.143	-49.4	-56.2	.107	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1963	33	18	5	9	0	4	0	145	57	56	103	13	144.3	3.55	1.393	6.42	3.47	93.0	105.1	1.7
1964	44	33	18	9	2	12	6	196	84	64	192	26	232.0	3.26	1.121	7.45	3.15	85.9	112.6	3.5
1965	43	37	15	9	3	7	3	216	93	72	226	23	243.7	3.44	1.182	8.35	2.81	80.3	101.7	1.9
1966	40	33	14	14	3	5	1	204	108	83	173	24	203.7	4.77	1.409	7.64	3.58	102.2	73.3	-1.2
1967	31	30	14	13	0	11	6	165	69	56	174	14	204.0	3.04	1.083	7.68	2.53	77.0	108.1	3.0
1968	39	32	17	9	1	8	4	178	78	65	197	23	220.0	3.19	1.105	8.06	2.83	93.4	94.9	1.7
1969	37	36	19	11	1	15	1	214	98	122	271	22	280.7	3.14	1.197	8.69	2.90	77.8	118.7	4.5
1970	40	39	14	19	0	13	3	272	115	109	230	27	272.7	3.80	1.397	7.59	3.28	87.9	98.4	2.6
1971	45	45	25	14	0	29	4	336	122	92	308	36	376.0	2.92	1.138	7.37	2.76	78.2	120.6	6.8
1972	41	41	22	14	0	23	4	282	91	74	250	29	327.3	2.50	1.088	6.87	2.67	85.9	124.4	6.0
1973	42	42	16	15	0	17	3	315	131	79	214	35	308.7	3.82	1.276	6.24	3.48	86.8	105.1	3.8
1974	41	41	16	21	0	27	3	310	142	78	202	38	308.0	4.15	1.260	5.90	3.65	97.2	90.5	1.6
1975	32	32	12	18	0	19	1	260	101	64	139	19	240.7	3.78	1.346	5.20	3.23	81.2	105.2	2.9
1976	31	30	8	13	0	5	2	184	69	52	120	14	192.7	3.22	1.225	5.61	3.16	95.2	102.8	2.1
1978	20	2	2	1	1	0	0	30	6	11	13	0	34.7	1.56	1.183	3.38	2.91	86.8	215.3	1.1
1979	27	5	0	2	0	0	0	59	26	22	20	4	49.3	4.74	1.642	3.65	4.27	120.3	74.9	-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

592

1,017

821

RBI

105

362

.1096

OBP

.2146

SLG

.1206

OPS

.3352

Pitching

G (P)

586

264th-most career G (P)

496

53rd-most career GS

217

87th-most career W

191

52nd-most career L

195

146th-most career CG

SHO

41st-most career SHO

3,638

59th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,832

23rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,099

77th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.438

395th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2272

246th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.01

209th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1968-10-03	DET @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2	1	5
1968-09-15	ATH @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	3
1969-09-10	DET @ CLE Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	3
1966-06-07	BOS @ DET Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
1966-06-22	DET @ TEX Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1969-05-23	LAA @ DET Gameday	9.0	4	3	3	2	16	1
1969-06-09	MIL @ DET Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	16	1
1972-10-02	BOS @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	5	15	0
1971-07-31	LAA @ DET Gameday	12.0	9	3	3	0	14	0
1968-07-01	LAA @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	0	14	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× World Series MVP3× 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.