Mike LaValliere
Philadelphia Phillies 1984; St. Louis Cardinals 1985–1986; Pittsburgh Pirates 1987–1992; Chicago White Sox 1993; Pittsburgh Pirates 1993; Chicago White Sox 1994–1995
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .222 | .000 | .222 | -12.2 | -32.7 | .168 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 12 | 44 | 34 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .147 | .273 | .176 | .449 | 36.4 | 29.9 | .234 | -0.1 |
| 1986 | 110 | 350 | 303 | 18 | 71 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 36 | 37 | 0 | 1 | .234 | .318 | .310 | .628 | 76.8 | 76.3 | .295 | 1.1 |
| 1987 | 121 | 390 | 340 | 33 | 102 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 43 | 32 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .377 | .365 | .742 | 98.2 | 97.7 | .337 | 2.1 |
| 1988 | 120 | 409 | 352 | 24 | 92 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 50 | 34 | 3 | 2 | .261 | .353 | .330 | .682 | 99.7 | 98.9 | .318 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 68 | 223 | 190 | 15 | 60 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 29 | 24 | 0 | 2 | .316 | .406 | .400 | .806 | 138.3 | 136.1 | .371 | 2.3 |
| 1990 | 96 | 330 | 279 | 27 | 72 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 44 | 20 | 0 | 3 | .258 | .362 | .344 | .706 | 101.6 | 99.6 | .328 | 2.0 |
| 1991 | 108 | 377 | 336 | 25 | 97 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 41 | 33 | 27 | 2 | 1 | .289 | .351 | .360 | .711 | 104.4 | 103.4 | .329 | 2.4 |
| 1992 | 95 | 343 | 293 | 22 | 75 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 44 | 21 | 0 | 3 | .256 | .350 | .328 | .677 | 88.3 | 94.2 | .308 | 1.5 |
| 1993 | 38 | 115 | 102 | 6 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1 | .255 | .278 | .275 | .552 | 49.3 | 51.8 | .256 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 59 | 172 | 139 | 6 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 0 | 2 | .281 | .368 | .331 | .699 | 91.4 | 85.1 | .327 | 0.8 |
| 1995 | 46 | 109 | 98 | 7 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .303 | .337 | .639 | 70.8 | 70.5 | .292 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-04-22 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1988-07-09 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 1990-05-08 | SD @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1987-07-07 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1990-05-26 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.