Mike Greenwell
Boston Red Sox 1985–1996
Percentile snapshot
1995 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1995 batters (min 446 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 17 | 34 | 31 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .323 | .382 | .742 | 1.124 | 192.4 | 195.6 | .468 | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 31 | 40 | 35 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .314 | .400 | .371 | .771 | 120.3 | 112.5 | .360 | 0.1 |
| 1987 | 125 | 456 | 412 | 71 | 135 | 31 | 6 | 19 | 89 | 35 | 40 | 5 | 4 | .328 | .386 | .570 | .956 | 148.9 | 147.9 | .411 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 158 | 693 | 590 | 86 | 192 | 39 | 8 | 22 | 119 | 87 | 38 | 16 | 8 | .325 | .416 | .531 | .946 | 159.6 | 159.7 | .416 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 145 | 641 | 578 | 87 | 178 | 36 | 0 | 14 | 95 | 56 | 44 | 13 | 5 | .308 | .370 | .443 | .813 | 121.8 | 123.6 | .364 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 159 | 682 | 610 | 71 | 181 | 30 | 6 | 14 | 73 | 65 | 43 | 8 | 7 | .297 | .367 | .434 | .801 | 120.1 | 120.1 | .362 | 3.2 |
| 1991 | 147 | 598 | 544 | 76 | 163 | 26 | 6 | 9 | 83 | 43 | 35 | 15 | 5 | .300 | .350 | .419 | .769 | 107.9 | 108.9 | .346 | 1.9 |
| 1992 | 49 | 202 | 180 | 16 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 3 | .233 | .307 | .278 | .585 | 61.8 | 61.7 | .280 | -0.5 |
| 1993 | 146 | 603 | 540 | 77 | 170 | 38 | 6 | 13 | 72 | 54 | 46 | 5 | 4 | .315 | .379 | .480 | .859 | 123.6 | 124.4 | .381 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 95 | 374 | 327 | 60 | 88 | 25 | 1 | 11 | 45 | 38 | 26 | 2 | 2 | .269 | .348 | .453 | .800 | 99.0 | 101.8 | .349 | 0.7 |
| 1995 | 120 | 525 | 481 | 67 | 143 | 25 | 4 | 15 | 76 | 38 | 35 | 9 | 5 | .297 | .349 | .459 | .808 | 105.0 | 106.3 | .356 | 1.5 |
| 1996 | 77 | 318 | 295 | 35 | 87 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 44 | 18 | 27 | 4 | 0 | .295 | .336 | .441 | .777 | 91.2 | 93.6 | .339 | 0.4 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-09-02 | BOS @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 11 |
| 1988-09-14 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 1990-09-01 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1988-06-20 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 1995-09-11 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.