Mike Kekich

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 196 lb

BornApril 2, 1945 · San Diego, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 9, 1965

Final gameOctober 1, 1977

Seasons9 (1965–1977)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1965; Los Angeles Dodgers 1968; New York Yankees 1969–1972; Cleveland Indians 1973; New York Yankees 1973; Texas Rangers 1975; Seattle Mariners 1977

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified pitchers

10.7

26.2

21.4

34.5

2.4

SHO

172

70.2

27.4

3.6

70.2

175.3

22.6

ERA

3.70

17.9

WHIP

1.414

K/9

4.00

13.1

FIP

3.71

11.9

FIP-

124.6

3.6

ERA+

80.6

3.6

sWAR

-0.1

of 85 qualified 1972 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-5.0

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.3	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1968	25	40	37	3	3	0	0	1	1	9	.081	.105	.081	.186	-58.6	-41.2	.094	-0.8
1969	28	30	27	0	3	1	0	1	0	10	.111	.111	.148	.259	-43.7	-26.2	.118	-0.4
1970	26	36	32	2	3	0	0	2	2	7	.094	.147	.094	.241	-38.5	-30.2	.126	-0.7
1971	37	62	52	2	8	0	0	4	2	11	.154	.185	.154	.339	-15.1	-2.3	.166	0.3
1972	29	65	59	3	8	0	1	4	0	14	.136	.136	.169	.305	-30.2	-8.0	.142	-0.1
1973	24	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-2.2
1975	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1977	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1965	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	10	11	13	9	2	10.3	9.58	2.226	7.84	7.18	219.4	34.2	-0.7
1968	25	20	2	10	0	1	1	116	50	46	84	9	115.0	3.91	1.409	6.57	3.33	119.7	71.0	-0.8
1969	28	13	4	6	1	1	0	91	53	49	66	11	105.0	4.54	1.333	5.66	3.92	113.0	76.4	-0.4
1970	26	14	6	3	0	1	0	103	53	55	63	12	98.7	4.83	1.601	5.75	4.44	125.3	73.2	-0.7
1971	37	24	10	9	0	3	0	167	77	82	93	13	170.3	4.07	1.462	4.91	3.77	109.7	84.5	0.3
1972	29	28	10	13	0	2	0	172	72	76	78	13	175.3	3.70	1.414	4.00	3.71	124.6	80.6	-0.1
1973	21	10	2	5	0	0	0	93	54	49	30	7	64.7	7.52	2.196	4.18	5.43	141.8	51.0	-2.2
1975	23	0	0	0	2	0	0	33	13	21	19	2	31.3	3.73	1.723	5.46	4.18	111.0	100.9	0.3
1977	41	2	5	4	3	0	0	90	56	51	55	11	90.0	5.60	1.567	5.50	4.91	119.8	73.2	-0.6

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

238

236

209

RBI

.1196

OBP

.1402

SLG

.1340

OPS

.2742

Pitching

G (P)

235

112

SHO

861

SO (P)

497

BB allowed

442

ERA

4.591

WHIP

1.5302

K/9

5.20

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	RBI	TB
1972-04-30	MIN @ NYY Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1	3
1972-07-19	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2
1969-06-09	KC @ NYY Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
1971-09-11	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	0	1	0	0	2	1
1968-06-20	LAD @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-08-04	NYM @ LAD Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	2	11	0
1970-08-28	MIN @ NYY Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	3	7	0
1971-08-03	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	7	0
1968-06-28	ATL @ LAD Gameday	7.2	6	2	1	2	7	1
1968-06-14	LAD @ PHI Gameday	7.0	2	1	1	2	7	0

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.