Mickey Rivers
California Angels 1970–1975; New York Yankees 1976–1979; Texas Rangers 1979–1984
Percentile snapshot
1981 season — qualified batters
of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 325 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 17 | 30 | 25 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .320 | .414 | .400 | .814 | 140.3 | 130.4 | .385 | 0.2 |
| 1971 | 79 | 296 | 268 | 31 | 71 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 19 | 38 | 13 | 1 | .265 | .316 | .336 | .652 | 92.8 | 92.4 | .307 | 0.7 |
| 1972 | 58 | 176 | 159 | 18 | 34 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 26 | 4 | 3 | .214 | .256 | .277 | .533 | 56.8 | 63.1 | .252 | -0.3 |
| 1973 | 30 | 141 | 129 | 26 | 45 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 3 | .349 | .391 | .457 | .849 | 150.5 | 147.1 | .392 | 1.4 |
| 1974 | 118 | 518 | 466 | 69 | 133 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 31 | 39 | 47 | 30 | 13 | .285 | .341 | .393 | .734 | 119.2 | 116.5 | .344 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 155 | 672 | 616 | 70 | 175 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 53 | 43 | 42 | 70 | 14 | .284 | .331 | .359 | .690 | 100.2 | 101.2 | .320 | 2.4 |
| 1976 | 137 | 613 | 590 | 95 | 184 | 31 | 8 | 8 | 67 | 13 | 51 | 43 | 7 | .312 | .327 | .432 | .760 | 122.8 | 123.7 | .350 | 4.1 |
| 1977 | 138 | 594 | 565 | 79 | 184 | 18 | 5 | 12 | 69 | 18 | 45 | 22 | 14 | .326 | .350 | .439 | .789 | 116.1 | 116.7 | .351 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 141 | 604 | 559 | 78 | 148 | 25 | 8 | 11 | 48 | 29 | 51 | 25 | 5 | .265 | .302 | .397 | .699 | 95.4 | 98.8 | .315 | 2.0 |
| 1979 | 132 | 570 | 533 | 72 | 156 | 27 | 8 | 9 | 50 | 22 | 39 | 10 | 9 | .293 | .319 | .424 | .743 | 98.8 | 101.3 | .329 | 2.1 |
| 1980 | 147 | 661 | 630 | 96 | 210 | 32 | 6 | 7 | 60 | 20 | 34 | 18 | 7 | .333 | .353 | .437 | .789 | 118.8 | 118.1 | .356 | 4.0 |
| 1981 | 99 | 428 | 399 | 62 | 114 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 24 | 31 | 9 | 5 | .286 | .327 | .371 | .698 | 105.5 | 105.5 | .323 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 19 | 69 | 68 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .232 | .324 | .555 | 46.7 | 54.3 | .244 | -0.4 |
| 1983 | 96 | 329 | 309 | 37 | 88 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 21 | 9 | 4 | .285 | .309 | .350 | .658 | 82.2 | 83.2 | .299 | -0.3 |
| 1984 | 102 | 326 | 313 | 40 | 94 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 33 | 9 | 23 | 5 | 5 | .300 | .320 | .387 | .706 | 91.7 | 92.8 | .318 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-09-14 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 1982-07-22 | TEX @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1981-09-25 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1980-09-06 | TEX @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1977-07-13 | NYY @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.