MLB / Players

Mike Krukow

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 205 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1952 · Long Beach, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1976

Final gameJune 4, 1989

Seasons14 (1976–1989)

Chicago Cubs 1976–1981; Philadelphia Phillies 1982; San Francisco Giants 1983–1989

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified pitchers

7.8

15.6

97.4

23.4

SHO

182

83.1

68.8

90.9

104

19.5

45.5

163.0

ERA

4.80

11.7

WHIP

1.399

27.3

K/9

5.74

50.6

FIP

4.39

37.7

FIP-

112.4

16.9

ERA+

81.3

2.6

sWAR

0.0

2.6

of 78 qualified 1987 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.5

20.1

sWAR

18.9

93.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1976	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1977	34	63	55	4	11	1	0	2	1	14	0	0	.200	.214	.218	.432	-1.2	11.4	.201	1.5
1978	27	51	45	4	11	5	0	3	2	13	0	0	.244	.271	.356	.626	59.8	66.0	.287	1.8
1979	28	62	51	4	16	2	1	8	0	8	0	0	.314	.327	.412	.739	90.0	92.9	.332	1.9
1980	34	74	65	5	16	0	1	6	2	12	0	0	.246	.269	.292	.561	46.4	51.7	.263	1.0
1981	25	56	50	5	9	2	0	3	0	13	0	0	.180	.180	.220	.400	-5.7	10.8	.185	1.4
1982	33	77	72	3	13	1	0	2	0	19	0	0	.181	.181	.194	.375	-6.9	5.1	.174	3.3
1983	31	71	63	3	16	2	1	8	2	15	1	1	.254	.269	.333	.602	62.5	68.0	.274	1.5
1984	36	76	72	5	10	1	0	2	1	19	0	0	.139	.149	.153	.301	-27.1	-14.1	.142	-0.7
1985	28	66	55	2	12	4	1	3	1	15	1	1	.218	.259	.345	.604	69.0	71.0	.278	2.6
1986	35	98	82	7	12	1	0	8	4	25	1	0	.146	.186	.159	.345	-7.3	-1.5	.169	3.9
1987	30	61	54	1	9	2	0	7	2	27	0	0	.167	.196	.204	.400	4.0	9.0	.187	0.0
1988	20	47	41	1	3	1	1	2	2	8	0	0	.073	.116	.171	.287	-26.5	-16.6	.137	0.8
1989	8	16	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	.063	.063	.063	.125	-83.0	-63.6	.058	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1976	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	2	1	0	4.3	8.31	1.846	2.08	3.57	94.1	45.7	-0.2
1977	34	33	8	14	0	1	1	195	84	61	106	16	172.0	4.40	1.488	5.55	3.83	89.0	97.8	1.5
1978	27	20	9	3	0	3	1	125	60	53	81	11	138.3	3.90	1.287	5.27	3.74	94.7	101.2	1.8
1979	28	28	9	9	0	0	0	172	77	81	119	13	164.7	4.21	1.536	6.50	3.80	93.6	96.6	1.9
1980	34	34	10	15	0	3	0	200	100	80	130	13	205.0	4.39	1.366	5.71	3.59	92.7	88.2	1.0
1981	25	25	9	9	0	2	1	146	59	55	101	11	144.3	3.68	1.393	6.30	3.45	94.3	99.4	1.4
1982	33	33	13	11	0	7	2	211	72	82	138	8	208.0	3.12	1.409	5.97	3.15	86.8	116.4	3.3
1983	31	31	11	11	0	2	1	189	81	76	136	17	184.3	3.95	1.438	6.64	3.68	103.1	90.3	1.5
1984	35	33	11	12	1	3	1	234	101	78	141	22	199.3	4.56	1.565	6.37	4.06	115.0	77.5	-0.7
1985	28	28	8	11	0	6	1	176	73	49	150	19	194.7	3.38	1.156	6.93	3.15	90.5	103.0	2.6
1986	34	34	20	9	0	10	2	204	83	55	178	24	245.0	3.05	1.057	6.54	3.29	92.3	116.8	3.9
1987	30	28	5	6	0	3	0	182	87	46	104	24	163.0	4.80	1.399	5.74	4.39	112.4	81.3	0.0
1988	20	20	7	4	0	1	0	111	49	31	75	13	124.7	3.54	1.139	5.41	3.73	112.5	93.7	0.8
1989	8	8	4	3	0	0	0	37	19	18	18	5	43.0	3.98	1.279	3.77	4.66	136.5	85.9	0.0

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

371

819

722

139

RBI

194

.1925

OBP

.2136

SLG

.2438

OPS

.4574

Pitching

G (P)

369

355

209th-most career GS

124

412th-most career W

117

364th-most career L

SHO

2,191

353rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,478

248th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

767

290th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.899

WHIP

1.3489

K/9

6.07

354th-highest career K/9

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	TB
1980-08-12	PHI @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	5
1983-09-14	SF @ SD Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	1	5
1985-05-14	PIT @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	2	4
1979-06-27	PHI @ CHC Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	4
1985-08-13	HOU @ SF Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1985-08-13	HOU @ SF Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	3	12	0
1986-08-15	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	12	0
1978-09-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	5	11	0
1981-09-05	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	11	2	0	0	11	0
1984-08-17	NYM @ SF Gameday	9.1	7	2	2	3	10	1

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× 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.