Mike Hessman
Atlanta Braves 2003–2004; Detroit Tigers 2007–2008; New York Mets 2010
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 19 | 26 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .423 | .667 | 1.090 | 175.9 | 180.6 | .452 | 0.3 |
| 2004 | 29 | 71 | 69 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .155 | .261 | .416 | -6.9 | 5.3 | .181 | -0.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | 57 | 51 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .298 | .471 | .769 | 95.3 | 97.9 | .333 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 12 | 31 | 27 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .296 | .387 | .889 | 1.276 | 220.6 | 223.7 | .520 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 32 | 65 | 55 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .127 | .262 | .255 | .516 | 42.3 | 42.6 | .244 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-09-11 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 2007-09-26 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2004-06-02 | WSH @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2010-08-06 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 2003-08-30 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
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.