Mike Kilkenny
Detroit Tigers 1969–1971; Cleveland Indians 1972; Detroit Tigers 1972; Oakland Athletics 1972; San Diego Padres 1972; Cleveland Indians 1973
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 39 | 42 | 37 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .054 | .103 | .054 | .157 | -72.9 | -55.5 | .086 | 1.6 |
| 1970 | 37 | 44 | 39 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .075 | .077 | .152 | -82.7 | -58.0 | .069 | -1.2 |
| 1971 | 30 | 25 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .083 | .083 | .167 | -81.2 | -52.9 | .078 | -0.9 |
| 1972 | 29 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .071 | .071 | .143 | -93.5 | -58.0 | .067 | 0.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 39 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 99 | 48 | 63 | 97 | 13 | 128.3 | 3.37 | 1.262 | 6.80 | 3.73 | 100.1 | 110.8 | 1.6 |
| 1970 | 36 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 141 | 74 | 70 | 105 | 10 | 129.0 | 5.16 | 1.636 | 7.33 | 3.48 | 93.3 | 72.3 | -1.2 |
| 1971 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 83 | 48 | 44 | 47 | 8 | 86.3 | 5.00 | 1.471 | 4.90 | 4.07 | 115.6 | 70.4 | -0.9 |
| 1972 | 29 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 59 | 27 | 42 | 49 | 7 | 64.3 | 3.78 | 1.570 | 6.85 | 4.14 | 130.3 | 84.1 | 0.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2.0 | 22.50 | 5.000 | 13.50 | 15.08 | 388.8 | 17.2 | -0.4 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-08-19 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1969-08-12 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-04-29 | DET @ KC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-05-23 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-08-11 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-09-17 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 0 |
| 1970-06-16 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| 1969-08-12 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 |
| 1970-08-11 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| 1969-08-19 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
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.