MLB / Players

Mike Colbern

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb
BornApril 19, 1955 · Santa Monica, CA, USA
MLB debutJuly 18, 1978
Final gameSeptember 29, 1979
Seasons2 (1978–1979)

Chicago White Sox 1978–1979

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
0.6
60

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
19784814614111385122013601.270.281.362.64374.079.3.2910.5
1979329183520510842500.241.276.325.60160.561.9.2750.1

Career totals

G
80
PA
237
AB
224
R
16
H
58
2B
10
3B
2
HR
2
RBI
28
BB
5
SO
61
SB
0
BA
.2589
OBP
.2790
SLG
.3482
OPS
.6272

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
1978-09-11MIN @ CWS Gameday312001105
1978-09-29CWS @ LAA Gameday404000104
1978-09-30CWS @ LAA Gameday511001104
1978-08-12DET @ CWS Gameday303000403
1978-08-29CWS @ KC Gameday422100103

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.