Mike Fornieles

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 155 lb

BornJanuary 18, 1932 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1952

Final gameJuly 14, 1963

Seasons12 (1952–1963)

Washington Senators 1952; Chicago White Sox 1953–1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Chicago White Sox 1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957; Boston Red Sox 1957–1963; Minnesota Twins 1963

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified pitchers

72.7

10.9

18.2

23.6

72.7

30.9

SHO

43.6

193

63.6

67.3

69.1

107

47.3

90.9

182.3

27.3

ERA

3.75

36.4

WHIP

1.360

25.5

K/9

5.28

74.5

FIP

2.97

92.7

FIP-

76.9

89.1

ERA+

102.7

36.4

sWAR

1.9

34.5

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.1

39.1

sWAR

10.8

87.7

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
1952	4	10	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.8	-100.0	.000	0.8
1953	39	51	41	2	4	1	0	0	5	1	5	0	.098	.119	.122	.241	-55.0	-34.9	.115	1.9
1954	16	12	11	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.273	.273	.273	.545	38.9	50.3	.254	0.2
1955	28	31	29	6	3	1	0	0	1	0	5	0	.103	.103	.138	.241	-56.2	-35.3	.110	0.8
1956	39	37	35	2	6	2	0	0	0	0	6	0	.171	.171	.229	.400	-3.9	8.1	.181	1.0
1957	42	67	62	4	11	0	0	0	2	2	9	0	.177	.203	.177	.381	-8.3	4.8	.182	1.9
1958	37	29	29	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	.207	.207	.207	.414	-4.5	11.2	.190	-0.2
1959	46	19	19	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	7	0	.158	.158	.211	.368	-17.3	-1.9	.165	1.7
1960	70	17	15	2	6	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	116.6	113.4	.368	3.0
1961	57	33	32	2	5	1	0	1	4	0	8	0	.156	.156	.281	.438	-2.2	13.0	.190	0.5
1962	42	17	16	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	.188	.188	.188	.375	-14.6	0.0	.171	-0.4
1963	20	9	9	1	2	1	1	0	1	0	5	0	.222	.222	.556	.778	104.2	107.5	.331	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1952	4	2	2	2	0	2	1	13	4	11	12	1	26.3	1.37	.911	4.10	3.20	90.2	259.5	0.8
1953	39	16	8	7	3	5	0	160	61	61	72	8	153.0	3.59	1.444	4.24	3.54	88.5	111.5	1.9
1954	15	6	1	2	1	0	0	41	20	14	18	4	42.0	4.29	1.310	3.86	3.76	100.9	86.9	0.2
1955	26	9	6	3	2	2	0	84	37	29	23	12	86.3	3.86	1.309	2.40	4.78	120.7	102.7	0.8
1956	36	11	4	8	1	1	1	131	57	31	59	8	126.7	4.05	1.279	4.19	3.13	79.9	96.6	1.0
1957	40	22	10	13	2	8	2	193	76	55	107	11	182.3	3.75	1.360	5.28	2.97	76.9	102.7	1.9
1958	37	7	4	6	1	1	0	123	61	33	49	10	110.7	4.96	1.410	3.98	3.79	94.6	80.8	-0.2
1959	46	0	5	3	11	0	0	77	28	29	54	6	82.0	3.07	1.293	5.93	3.20	78.8	132.0	1.7
1960	70	0	10	5	14	0	0	86	32	49	64	6	109.0	2.64	1.239	5.28	3.46	85.6	152.9	3.0
1961	57	2	9	8	15	1	0	121	62	54	70	18	119.3	4.68	1.466	5.28	4.70	113.4	88.6	0.5
1962	42	1	3	6	5	0	0	96	49	37	36	14	82.3	5.36	1.615	3.94	5.49	133.9	76.6	-0.4
1963	20	0	1	1	0	0	0	40	22	18	12	0	36.7	5.40	1.582	2.95	3.44	92.8	68.8	-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

440

332

308

RBI

.1688

OBP

.1768

SLG

.2078

OPS

.3846

Pitching

G (P)

432

338th-most career SV

SHO

1,157

SO (P)

576

BB allowed

421

ERA

3.961

WHIP

1.3712

K/9

4.48

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	TB
1961-09-08	DET @ BOS Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	4
1963-06-15	LAA @ MIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	3
1958-05-01	ATH @ BOS Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	1	2
1958-04-24	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
1953-05-09	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	1	1	1	0	0	3	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-06-16	BOS @ DET Gameday	9.1	11	2	1	4	7	1
1956-07-14	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	7	0
1957-04-27	MIN @ BAL Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	7	0
1957-08-22	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	4	7	0
1953-09-07	CWS @ DET Gameday	6.1	11	4	4	2	7	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.