MLB / Players

Mike LaCoss

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 185 lb

BornMay 30, 1956 · Glendale, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 18, 1978

Final gameJuly 2, 1991

Seasons14 (1978–1991)

Cincinnati Reds 1978–1981; Houston Astros 1982–1984; Kansas City Royals 1985; San Francisco Giants 1986–1991

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified pitchers

93.5

7.8

49.4

55.8

6.5

SHO

27.3

184

92.2

67.5

5.2

85.7

171.0

10.4

ERA

3.68

70.1

WHIP

1.444

19.5

K/9

4.16

9.1

FIP

4.30

44.2

FIP-

110.1

23.4

ERA+

106.0

45.5

sWAR

1.9

31.2

of 78 qualified 1987 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

88.9

4.9

sWAR

7.0

82.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1978	17	36	30	3	2	1	0	1	0	17	.067	.067	.100	.167	-76.8	-53.8	.076	-0.4
1979	35	78	70	3	9	1	0	0	3	25	.129	.164	.143	.307	-25.3	-15.1	.151	2.5
1980	34	63	55	2	5	1	0	1	1	23	.091	.123	.109	.232	-48.9	-34.4	.115	-0.8
1981	20	26	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.7	-100.0	.000	-2.0
1982	41	28	24	2	6	1	0	0	1	8	.250	.280	.292	.572	65.8	66.1	.270	2.0
1983	38	40	35	1	3	0	0	1	1	12	.086	.111	.086	.197	-54.3	-42.9	.099	-0.5
1984	39	38	31	1	4	1	0	1	0	16	.129	.125	.161	.286	-31.6	-17.3	.129	0.2
1985	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1986	37	69	61	8	14	2	2	9	3	24	.230	.266	.361	.626	73.7	75.5	.287	2.6
1987	39	57	50	2	3	0	0	3	2	16	.060	.113	.060	.173	-57.5	-51.2	.094	1.9
1988	19	39	33	3	8	1	0	2	2	13	.242	.286	.273	.558	66.1	65.2	.267	0.9
1989	45	48	41	1	3	2	0	1	4	16	.073	.156	.122	.278	-20.8	-18.3	.146	1.8
1990	13	31	23	2	1	1	0	0	0	10	.043	.043	.087	.130	-83.7	-64.4	.057	0.4
1991	18	10	9	2	2	0	0	0	1	6	.222	.300	.222	.522	56.9	51.6	.259	-1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1978	16	15	4	8	0	2	1	104	48	46	31	5	96.0	4.50	1.563	2.91	4.12	115.5	79.3	-0.4
1979	35	32	14	8	0	6	1	202	80	79	73	13	205.7	3.50	1.366	3.19	3.99	106.3	107.1	2.5
1980	34	29	10	12	0	4	2	207	87	68	59	9	169.3	4.62	1.624	3.14	3.96	110.2	77.7	-0.8
1981	20	13	4	7	1	1	1	102	53	30	22	7	78.0	6.12	1.692	2.54	4.46	126.1	57.9	-2.0
1982	41	8	6	6	0	0	0	107	37	54	51	3	115.0	2.90	1.400	3.99	3.71	109.8	116.8	2.0
1983	38	17	5	7	1	2	0	142	68	56	53	10	138.0	4.43	1.435	3.46	4.11	119.6	77.4	-0.5
1984	39	18	7	5	3	2	1	132	59	55	86	3	132.0	4.02	1.417	5.86	3.03	89.8	84.0	0.2
1985	21	0	1	1	1	0	0	49	23	29	26	2	40.7	5.09	1.918	5.75	4.24	102.8	81.1	0.0
1986	37	31	10	13	0	4	1	179	81	70	86	14	204.3	3.57	1.219	3.79	3.91	109.8	99.9	2.6
1987	39	26	13	10	0	2	1	184	70	63	79	16	171.0	3.68	1.444	4.16	4.30	110.1	106.0	1.9
1988	19	19	7	7	0	1	1	99	46	47	70	5	114.3	3.62	1.277	5.51	3.31	99.9	91.5	0.9
1989	45	18	10	10	6	1	0	143	53	65	78	3	150.3	3.17	1.384	4.67	3.32	97.2	107.6	1.8
1990	13	12	6	4	0	1	0	75	34	39	39	5	77.7	3.94	1.468	4.52	4.15	112.6	93.5	0.4
1991	18	5	1	5	0	0	0	61	38	24	30	4	47.3	7.23	1.796	5.70	4.27	118.7	49.8	-1.6

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

416

563

481

RBI

194

.1247

OBP

.1594

SLG

.1601

OPS

.3195

Pitching

G (P)

415

243

103

SHO

1,740

SO (P)

783

BB allowed

725

347th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.020

WHIP

1.4434

K/9

4.05

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
1986-06-23	SD @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	4	0	6
1986-05-25	WSH @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	3	0	5
1986-06-29	SF @ CIN Gameday	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	4
1984-07-05	HOU @ WSH Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	3
1991-04-11	SF @ SD Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1989-07-20	SF @ CHC Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	1	9	0
1987-05-07	CHC @ SF Gameday	6.2	7	1	1	1	9	1
1988-07-02	PIT @ SF Gameday	8.0	8	1	1	3	8	1
1990-04-26	PIT @ SF Gameday	7.2	7	2	2	1	8	0
1991-04-21	HOU @ SF Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	1	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.

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.