Mike Heath

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 5, 1955 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutJune 3, 1978

Final gameJuly 2, 1991

Seasons14 (1978–1991)

New York Yankees 1978; Oakland Athletics 1979–1985; Detroit Tigers 1986; St. Louis Cardinals 1986; Detroit Tigers 1987–1990; Atlanta Braves 1991

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

140

19.3

508

0.8

475

10.1

118

3.4

20.2

RBI

36.1

5.9

55.5

47.1

58.8

.248

10.1

OBP

.287

4.2

SLG

.396

35.3

OPS

.682

18.5

wRC+

89.3

17.6

OPS+

92.1

18.5

wOBA

.304

12.6

sWAR

1.8

29.4

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.3

16.5

OPS+

87.0

18.3

sWAR

15.3

91.2

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
1978	33	99	92	6	21	3	1	0	8	4	9	0	0	.228	.265	.283	.548	53.7	57.2	.256	0.1
1979	74	286	258	19	66	8	0	3	27	17	18	1	0	.256	.304	.322	.626	73.2	73.6	.287	0.0
1980	92	329	305	27	74	10	2	1	33	16	28	3	3	.243	.280	.298	.578	61.6	64.1	.266	-0.4
1981	84	321	301	26	71	7	1	8	30	13	36	3	3	.236	.269	.346	.615	76.7	80.4	.282	0.9
1982	101	351	318	43	77	18	4	3	39	27	36	8	3	.242	.298	.352	.650	78.7	81.4	.292	1.0
1983	96	366	345	45	97	17	0	6	33	18	59	3	4	.281	.318	.383	.700	94.0	96.6	.313	1.5
1984	140	508	475	49	118	21	5	13	64	26	72	7	4	.248	.287	.396	.682	89.3	92.1	.304	1.8
1985	138	492	436	71	109	18	6	13	55	41	63	7	7	.250	.313	.408	.722	102.7	102.1	.323	2.6
1986	95	319	288	30	65	11	1	8	36	27	53	6	4	.226	.292	.354	.647	75.8	78.3	.293	0.9
1987	93	296	270	34	76	16	0	8	33	21	42	1	5	.281	.339	.430	.769	108.4	106.9	.340	1.7
1988	86	241	219	24	54	7	2	5	18	18	32	1	0	.247	.307	.365	.672	92.8	91.0	.310	1.2
1989	122	429	396	38	104	16	2	10	43	24	71	7	1	.263	.308	.389	.697	95.7	97.4	.318	2.3
1990	122	398	370	46	100	18	2	7	38	19	71	7	6	.270	.311	.386	.697	92.4	93.1	.319	2.0
1991	49	150	139	4	29	3	1	1	12	7	26	0	0	.209	.250	.266	.516	25.9	42.5	.225	-0.4

Career totals

1,325

4,585

4,212

462

1,061

173

RBI

469

278

616

.2519

OBP

.2995

SLG

.3670

OPS

.6665

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
1989-06-30	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	4	4	0	2	3	0	10
1989-05-17	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	1	9
1987-05-12	LAA @ DET Gameday	6	3	4	1	1	2	0	8
1986-04-18	STL @ WSH Gameday	5	1	3	2	1	3	0	8
1979-06-19	KC @ ATH Gameday	4	3	2	0	2	2	0	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.