MLB / Players

Mike Foltynewicz

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 7, 1991 · Sterling, IL, USA

MLB debutAugust 2, 2014

Final gameOctober 3, 2021

Seasons8 (2014–2021)

Houston Astros 2014; Atlanta Braves 2015–2020; Texas Rangers 2021

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified pitchers

24.6

56.1

36.8

91.2

SHO

78.9

130

94.7

91.2

19.3

202

75.4

78.9

183.0

54.4

ERA

2.85

WHIP

1.082

82.5

K/9

9.93

78.9

FIP

3.34

77.2

FIP-

81.9

77.2

ERA+

142.9

84.2

sWAR

4.1

75.4

of 58 qualified 2018 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.5

78.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2014	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2015	18	30	28	0	2	1	3	0	19	.071	.069	.107	.176	-79.9	-52.5	.075	-1.2
2016	22	42	36	3	5	1	1	1	19	.139	.162	.167	.329	-24.4	-11.7	.150	1.0
2017	29	49	42	1	2	0	0	0	27	.048	.048	.048	.095	-100.5	-75.1	.042	0.6
2018	31	66	58	3	3	1	4	0	41	.052	.052	.069	.121	-92.1	-67.8	.053	4.1
2019	21	38	35	1	2	0	1	0	19	.057	.057	.057	.114	-90.1	-70.2	.050	0.9
2020	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
2021	28	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.2	-100.0	.000	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2014	16	0	0	1	0	0	23	11	7	14	3	18.7	5.30	1.607	6.75	4.88	127.6	72.0	-0.1
2015	18	15	4	6	0	0	112	55	29	77	17	86.7	5.71	1.627	8.00	5.08	130.5	68.2	-1.2
2016	22	22	9	5	0	0	125	59	35	111	18	123.3	4.31	1.297	8.10	4.28	102.7	96.8	1.0
2017	29	28	10	13	0	0	169	82	59	143	20	154.0	4.79	1.481	8.36	4.35	98.2	92.4	0.6
2018	31	31	13	10	2	1	130	58	68	202	17	183.0	2.85	1.082	9.93	3.34	81.9	142.9	4.1
2019	21	21	8	6	0	0	109	59	37	105	23	117.0	4.54	1.248	8.08	4.93	109.9	98.9	0.9
2020	1	1	0	1	0	0	4	6	4	3	3	3.3	16.20	2.400	8.10	16.72	366.9	28.1	-0.4
2021	28	24	2	12	0	0	139	84	36	97	35	139.0	5.44	1.259	6.28	6.06	139.8	79.7	-0.3

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

166

227

201

RBI

127

.0697

OBP

.0739

SLG

.0846

OPS

.1585

Pitching

G (P)

166

142

SHO

825

SO (P)

752

BB allowed

275

ERA

4.516

WHIP

1.3164

K/9

8.20

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	RBI	TB
2015-05-01	CIN @ ATL Gameday	2	0	1	1	2	2
2018-04-04	WSH @ ATL Gameday	2	0	1	1	2	2
2016-08-12	ATL @ WSH Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	2
2016-07-16	COL @ ATL Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	1
2018-08-13	MIA @ ATL Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2018-06-01	WSH @ ATL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	11	0
2017-08-05	MIA @ ATL Gameday	6.1	4	1	1	0	11	1
2016-07-10	ATL @ CWS Gameday	7.0	5	0	0	0	10	0
2017-06-02	ATL @ CIN Gameday	7.0	2	0	0	2	10	0
2018-05-15	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5.0	3	1	0	5	10	0

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

1× All-Star

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