MLB / Players

Mike Garcia

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 17, 1923 · San Gabriel, CA, USA

MLB debutOctober 3, 1948

Final gameSeptember 2, 1961

Seasons14 (1948–1961)

Cleveland Indians 1948–1959; Chicago White Sox 1960; Washington Senators 1961

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified pitchers

32.7

43.6

78.2

43.6

SHO

7.3

221

25.5

36.4

25.5

110

52.7

81.8

211.3

52.7

ERA

3.75

36.4

WHIP

1.391

14.5

K/9

4.68

47.3

FIP

3.34

74.5

FIP-

89.3

70.9

ERA+

99.9

34.5

sWAR

1.9

34.5

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

117.9

86.9

sWAR

35.8

97.4

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1948	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1949	41	62	51	7	12	2	0	1	7	3	9	0	.235	.278	.333	.611	57.0	65.0	.289	5.2
1950	33	72	65	4	13	2	0	0	6	1	25	0	.200	.224	.231	.455	11.6	19.8	.215	2.7
1951	47	97	85	3	18	4	1	1	9	3	12	1	.212	.239	.318	.556	46.1	54.6	.256	4.6
1952	46	110	95	6	13	3	0	0	10	5	26	0	.137	.180	.168	.348	-10.4	1.0	.171	6.3
1953	38	105	96	8	24	5	0	0	5	3	15	0	.250	.273	.302	.575	51.5	58.7	.267	4.8
1954	45	94	81	5	11	0	0	0	4	6	22	0	.136	.193	.136	.329	-20.0	-7.7	.168	5.5
1955	38	78	69	4	15	4	0	0	7	4	14	1	.217	.253	.275	.529	35.2	42.6	.248	2.2
1956	35	75	61	1	7	1	0	0	3	3	10	0	.115	.164	.131	.295	-32.0	-21.1	.148	2.5
1957	38	81	75	3	12	2	0	0	8	3	12	0	.160	.192	.187	.379	-6.0	5.0	.181	1.9
1958	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.5	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1959	29	14	14	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	5	0	.071	.071	.071	.143	-76.0	-59.9	.066	0.4
1960	15	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	81.1	83.2	.307	0.0
1961	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1948	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	2.0	0.00	1.500	4.50	1.75	42.7	—	0.1
1949	41	20	14	5	2	8	5	154	46	60	94	6	175.7	2.36	1.218	4.82	2.92	72.8	170.4	5.2
1950	33	29	11	11	0	11	0	191	79	74	76	15	184.0	3.86	1.440	3.72	4.15	95.8	112.1	2.7
1951	47	30	20	13	6	15	1	239	89	82	118	10	254.0	3.15	1.264	4.18	3.16	82.2	122.1	4.6
1952	46	36	22	11	4	19	6	284	77	87	143	9	292.3	2.37	1.269	4.40	2.75	80.6	144.1	6.3
1953	38	35	18	9	0	21	3	260	98	81	134	18	271.7	3.25	1.255	4.44	3.37	88.4	117.4	4.8
1954	45	34	19	8	5	13	5	220	76	71	129	6	258.7	2.64	1.125	4.49	2.53	68.8	139.1	5.5
1955	38	31	11	13	3	6	2	230	94	56	120	17	210.7	4.02	1.358	5.13	3.18	80.1	98.9	2.2
1956	35	30	11	12	0	8	4	213	83	74	119	18	197.7	3.78	1.452	5.42	3.68	88.0	110.8	2.5
1957	38	27	12	8	0	9	1	221	88	73	110	14	211.3	3.75	1.391	4.68	3.34	89.3	99.9	1.9
1958	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	15	8	7	2	2	8.0	9.00	2.750	2.25	8.19	221.5	41.1	-0.4
1959	29	8	3	6	1	1	0	72	32	31	49	4	72.0	4.00	1.431	6.13	3.12	83.4	93.5	0.4
1960	15	0	0	0	2	0	0	23	9	10	8	2	17.7	4.58	1.868	4.08	4.67	122.7	83.0	0.0
1961	16	0	0	1	0	0	0	23	10	13	14	1	19.0	4.74	1.895	6.63	3.92	98.7	83.9	0.0

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

428

792

696

127

RBI

151

.1825

OBP

.2180

SLG

.2270

OPS

.4450

Pitching

G (P)

428

281

414th-most career GS

142

301st-most career W

111

359th-most career CG

SHO

148th-most career SHO

2,175

359th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,117

469th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

719

359th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.265

293rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3184

K/9

4.62

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
1951-07-08	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	2	4
1950-06-10	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	0	2	2	0	0	1	4
1955-05-26	CWS @ CLE Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	0	1	4
1951-08-07	BAL @ CLE Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	3	4
1949-08-29	BOS @ CLE Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1956-06-04	CLE @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	4	12	0
1952-06-22	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	1	11	0
1952-06-13	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	10	1
1949-09-04	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	9	0
1949-09-09	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	4	9	2

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

3× 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.