MLB / Players

Mike Hargrove

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 26, 1949 · Perryton, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 7, 1974

Final gameOctober 6, 1985

Seasons12 (1974–1985)

Texas Rangers 1974–1978; Cleveland Indians 1979; San Diego Padres 1979; Cleveland Indians 1980–1985

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified batters

134

9.2

566

28.5

469

9.2

19.2

134

28.5

25.4

46.9

6.9

RBI

33.8

89.2

43.1

.286

70.8

OBP

.388

93.1

SLG

.367

22.3

OPS

.755

wRC+

112.3

55.4

OPS+

106.6

48.5

wOBA

.351

58.5

sWAR

1.6

28.5

of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.1

86.7

OPS+

120.8

80.3

sWAR

30.1

96.6

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
1974	131	477	415	57	134	18	6	4	66	49	42	0	0	.323	.395	.424	.819	142.2	138.0	.381	2.8
1975	145	609	519	82	157	22	2	11	62	79	66	4	3	.303	.395	.416	.812	133.6	131.0	.376	3.4
1976	151	654	541	80	155	30	1	7	58	97	64	2	3	.287	.397	.384	.781	133.5	128.8	.369	3.4
1977	153	648	525	98	160	28	4	18	69	103	59	2	5	.305	.420	.476	.897	149.3	144.7	.403	4.7
1978	146	616	494	63	124	24	1	7	40	107	47	2	5	.251	.388	.346	.734	117.2	109.4	.350	2.1
1979	152	564	463	75	134	26	4	10	64	88	55	2	5	.289	.404	.428	.832	132.4	126.5	.382	3.1
1980	160	720	589	86	179	22	2	11	85	111	36	4	2	.304	.415	.404	.819	130.8	124.8	.379	3.8
1981	94	398	322	43	102	21	0	2	49	60	16	5	4	.317	.424	.401	.824	147.2	140.1	.387	2.7
1982	160	705	591	67	160	26	1	4	65	101	58	2	2	.271	.377	.338	.715	105.6	98.5	.337	1.5
1983	134	566	469	57	134	21	4	3	57	78	40	0	6	.286	.388	.367	.755	112.3	106.6	.351	1.6
1984	133	410	352	44	94	14	2	2	44	53	38	0	2	.267	.361	.335	.696	98.2	93.1	.327	0.3
1985	107	326	284	31	81	14	1	1	27	39	29	1	0	.285	.370	.352	.722	105.0	100.1	.335	0.6

Career totals

1,666

6,693

5,564

783

1,614

266

RBI

686

965

141st-most career BB

550

.2901

408th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3958

85th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3911

OPS

.7869

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1975-06-20	TEX @ LAA Gameday	6	2	4	2	1	2	0	9
1980-07-29	SEA @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	1	9
1976-04-18	MIL @ TEX Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	5	0	8
1977-08-03	TEX @ CWS Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	4	1	8
1979-08-17	CLE @ ATH Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	8

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× Rookie of the Year1× 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.