MLB / Players

Mike Anderson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb
BornJune 22, 1951 · Florence, SC, USA
MLB debutSeptember 2, 1971
Final gameSeptember 30, 1979
Seasons9 (1971–1979)

Philadelphia Phillies 1971–1975; St. Louis Cardinals 1976–1977; Baltimore Orioles 1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1979

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.0
39.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1971261038911225125132800.247.343.393.736116.4109.6.3480.6
1972361251038205125193610.194.317.320.63783.979.7.3060.0
197387215193324991928195303.254.321.451.772106.1109.5.3440.6
19741454353953599222534377521.251.313.354.66775.883.7.304-0.6
19751152712472464103428176612.259.307.372.68081.786.1.314-0.1
197686230199175881112263011.291.371.357.728109.7107.6.3440.7
197794169154183441417143123.221.286.338.62369.568.5.289-0.5
197853363223010331000.094.171.156.328-6.6-3.8.166-0.6
197979917812184012131412.231.341.321.66188.680.4.321-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19791000000200201.00.002.00018.00-1.31-34.3-0.1

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

G
721
PA
1,675
AB
1,490
R
159
H
367
2B
67
3B
11
HR
28
RBI
134
BB
161
SO
343
SB
8
BA
.2463
OBP
.3189
SLG
.3624
OPS
.6813

Pitching

G (P)
1
GS
0
W
0
L
0
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
1
SO (P)
2
BB allowed
0
ERA
.000
WHIP
2.0000
K/9
18.00

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1973-09-01WSH @ PHI Gameday422002408
1974-04-17STL @ PHI Gameday414110317
1977-07-04STL @ PIT Gameday413001206
1977-08-20SD @ STL Gameday433001106
1971-09-24PHI @ CHC Gameday322101216

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1979-06-27PHI @ CHC Gameday1.0200020

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.