MLB / Players

Mickey Stanley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 20, 1942 · Grand Rapids, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1964

Final gameSeptember 28, 1978

Seasons15 (1964–1978)

Detroit Tigers 1964–1978

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

157

77.2

661

78.1

602

85.1

64.9

147

43.9

45.6

73.7

56.1

RBI

28.1

36.8

.244

13.2

OBP

.297

SLG

.384

32.5

OPS

.681

18.4

wRC+

83.0

15.8

OPS+

86.6

15.8

wOBA

.311

16.7

sWAR

1.2

19.3

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.0

20.3

OPS+

90.5

23.7

sWAR

12.2

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
1964	4	11	11	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.273	.273	.273	.545	44.4	51.9	.248	-0.1
1965	30	121	117	14	28	6	0	3	13	3	12	1	0	.239	.256	.368	.624	69.8	74.8	.280	0.0
1966	92	254	235	28	68	15	4	3	19	17	20	2	1	.289	.336	.426	.762	114.7	115.9	.338	1.5
1967	145	367	333	38	70	7	3	7	24	29	46	9	2	.210	.273	.312	.586	69.6	71.7	.274	0.1
1968	153	641	583	88	151	16	6	11	60	42	57	4	3	.259	.311	.364	.675	104.9	103.0	.316	2.7
1969	149	651	592	73	139	28	1	16	70	52	56	8	4	.235	.299	.367	.665	83.0	83.2	.311	1.3
1970	142	623	568	83	143	21	11	13	47	45	56	10	1	.252	.305	.396	.701	91.4	92.2	.320	1.6
1971	139	432	401	43	117	14	5	7	41	24	44	1	3	.292	.329	.404	.733	103.1	105.6	.334	1.9
1972	142	475	435	45	102	16	6	14	55	29	49	1	0	.234	.278	.395	.673	89.3	97.8	.303	1.3
1973	157	661	602	81	147	23	5	17	57	48	65	0	4	.244	.297	.384	.681	83.0	86.6	.311	1.2
1974	99	427	394	40	87	13	2	8	34	26	63	5	3	.221	.270	.325	.594	64.5	67.9	.278	-0.2
1975	52	181	164	26	42	7	3	3	19	15	27	1	1	.256	.320	.390	.711	94.0	96.0	.326	0.3
1976	84	229	214	34	55	17	1	4	29	14	19	2	0	.257	.301	.402	.703	99.4	101.3	.325	0.6
1977	75	244	222	30	51	9	1	8	23	18	30	0	0	.230	.284	.387	.671	73.1	77.7	.297	-0.2
1978	53	160	151	15	40	9	0	3	8	9	19	0	1	.265	.306	.384	.690	91.6	91.9	.317	0.1

Career totals

1,516

5,477

5,022

641

1,243

201

117

RBI

500

371

564

.2475

OBP

.2984

SLG

.3765

OPS

.6749

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
1972-08-06	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	3	0	11
1969-08-26	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1976-07-30	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1970-07-29	KC @ DET Gameday	4	3	2	0	2	2	1	8
1971-05-16	DET @ TEX Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	2	0	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

4× 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.