MLB / Players

Mickey Welch

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 160 lb

BornJuly 4, 1859 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1880

Final gameMay 17, 1892

Seasons13 (1880–1892)

Troy Trojans 1880–1882; New York Gothams 1883–1884; New York Giants 1885–1892

Percentile snapshot

1883 season — qualified batters

330

320

8.8

17.5

8.8

35.1

26.3

61.4

RBI

38.6

24.6

.234

16.7

OBP

.258

21.1

SLG

.325

31.6

OPS

.583

27.2

wRC+

81.0

18.4

OPS+

74.4

19.3

wOBA

.259

23.7

sWAR

6.3

96.5

of 115 qualified 1883 batters (min 303 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1891 season — qualified pitchers

10.5

82.5

57.9

10.5

SHO

177

82.5

59.6

12.3

54.4

160.0

12.3

ERA

4.28

8.8

WHIP

1.713

K/9

2.59

22.8

FIP

4.42

5.3

FIP-

132.3

1.8

ERA+

78.2

sWAR

-0.2

3.5

of 58 qualified 1891 pitchers (min 136 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.6

81.8

sWAR

68.3

99.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1880	66	256	251	25	72	20	3	0	27	5	24	0	.287	.301	.390	.691	122.9	130.8	.311	6.0
1881	40	149	148	12	30	10	0	0	11	1	16	0	.203	.208	.270	.478	57.4	48.2	.217	3.8
1882	38	156	151	26	37	6	0	1	17	5	16	0	.245	.269	.305	.574	88.0	83.8	.259	1.1
1883	84	330	320	42	75	13	5	2	30	10	38	0	.234	.258	.325	.583	81.0	74.4	.259	6.3
1884	71	265	249	47	60	14	3	3	29	16	49	0	.241	.287	.357	.644	101.3	101.6	.293	8.9
1885	56	213	199	28	41	8	0	2	19	14	39	0	.206	.258	.276	.535	80.4	72.7	.254	11.2
1886	59	220	213	17	46	4	2	0	18	7	47	3	.216	.241	.254	.494	60.6	50.2	.231	6.4
1887	41	155	148	16	36	4	2	2	15	6	1	2	.243	.277	.338	.615	74.9	69.8	.282	5.7
1888	47	171	169	16	32	5	0	2	10	1	33	4	.189	.199	.254	.453	49.7	43.3	.207	8.5
1889	45	161	156	20	30	5	1	0	12	5	27	0	.192	.217	.237	.455	35.6	26.3	.218	7.0
1890	37	133	123	15	22	4	0	0	10	9	25	1	.179	.241	.211	.452	44.9	31.9	.229	4.2
1891	22	74	71	4	10	0	0	0	4	3	13	0	.141	.176	.141	.317	9.6	-7.5	.160	-0.2
1892	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	96.9	101.4	.319	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1880	65	64	34	30	0	64	4	575	162	80	123	7	574.0	2.54	1.141	1.93	2.68	112.9	93.5	6.0
1881	40	40	21	18	0	40	4	371	109	78	104	7	368.0	2.67	1.220	2.54	3.00	108.3	104.1	3.8
1882	33	33	14	16	0	30	5	334	108	62	53	7	281.0	3.46	1.409	1.70	3.46	120.0	83.4	1.1
1883	54	52	25	23	0	46	4	431	129	66	144	11	426.0	2.73	1.167	3.04	3.37	107.5	115.0	6.3
1884	65	65	39	21	0	62	4	528	155	146	345	12	557.3	2.50	1.209	5.57	2.69	90.2	119.0	8.9
1885	56	55	44	11	1	55	7	372	91	131	258	4	492.0	1.66	1.022	4.72	2.53	89.8	169.2	11.2
1886	59	59	33	22	0	56	1	514	166	163	272	13	500.0	2.99	1.354	4.90	3.31	100.6	110.0	6.4
1887	41	40	22	15	0	39	2	339	129	91	115	7	346.0	3.36	1.243	2.99	3.52	87.1	120.6	5.7
1888	47	47	26	19	0	47	5	328	91	108	167	12	425.3	1.93	1.025	3.53	2.90	102.5	147.0	8.5
1889	45	41	27	12	2	39	3	340	126	149	125	14	375.0	3.02	1.304	3.00	4.08	101.4	133.1	7.0
1890	37	37	17	14	0	33	2	268	97	122	97	5	292.3	2.99	1.334	2.99	3.60	101.0	119.3	4.2
1891	22	15	5	9	1	14	0	177	76	97	46	7	160.0	4.28	1.713	2.59	4.42	132.3	78.2	-0.2
1892	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	11	8	4	1	0	5.0	14.40	3.000	1.80	4.44	135.0	22.8	-0.5

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

607

2,286

2,201

268

492

RBI

202

329

.2235

OBP

.2524

SLG

.2967

OPS

.5491

Pitching

G (P)

565

299th-most career G (P)

549

33rd-most career GS

307

20th-most career W

210

36th-most career L

525

6th-most career CG

SHO

41st-most career SHO

4,802

17th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,850

120th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,297

34th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.712

85th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2255

240th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.47

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1973 (Veterans)

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