Mike Birkbeck
Milwaukee Brewers 1986–1989; New York Mets 1992; New York Mets 1995
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1992 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1995 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .333 | .833 | 151.2 | 130.2 | .413 | 1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 22.0 | 4.50 | 1.636 | 5.32 | 3.25 | 75.6 | 95.5 | 0.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 63 | 31 | 19 | 25 | 8 | 45.0 | 6.20 | 1.822 | 5.00 | 5.34 | 117.4 | 73.4 | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 23 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141 | 65 | 37 | 64 | 10 | 124.0 | 4.72 | 1.435 | 4.65 | 3.76 | 94.3 | 84.5 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 27 | 22 | 31 | 4 | 44.7 | 5.44 | 1.769 | 6.25 | 4.31 | 111.8 | 70.8 | -0.4 |
| 1992 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7.0 | 9.00 | 1.857 | 2.57 | 8.20 | 234.5 | 38.9 | -0.4 |
| 1995 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 27.7 | 1.63 | .867 | 4.55 | 3.21 | 79.5 | 248.4 | 1.1 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-05-29 | SD @ NYM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995-06-11 | NYM @ SD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1992-08-31 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995-05-24 | LAD @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995-06-06 | NYM @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-05-05 | KC @ MIL Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 1988-08-17 | MIL @ CLE Gameday | 4.1 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| 1988-07-18 | KC @ MIL Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995-06-06 | NYM @ SF Gameday | 7.2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1987-05-06 | LAA @ MIL Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 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.