MLB / Players

Mike Mitchell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 9, 1879 · Springfield, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1907

Final gameSeptember 30, 1914

Seasons8 (1907–1914)

Cincinnati Reds 1907–1912; Chicago Cubs 1913; Pittsburgh Pirates 1913–1914; Washington Senators 1914

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

131

33.7

523

33.1

466

36.8

31.3

119

36.2

52.1

57.1

RBI

44.2

42.9

59.5

30.1

25.8

.255

28.8

OBP

.314

22.7

SLG

.343

OPS

.658

28.2

wRC+

96.6

31.9

OPS+

98.3

35.6

wOBA

.320

26.4

sWAR

0.8

28.2

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 489 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.7

OPS+

114.3

70.6

sWAR

17.1

92.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1907	148	613	558	64	163	17	12	3	47	37	80	17	0	.292	.339	.382	.721	120.3	121.5	.352	2.7
1908	119	468	406	41	90	9	6	1	37	46	62	18	0	.222	.304	.281	.585	91.6	88.8	.294	0.4
1909	145	595	523	83	162	17	17	4	86	57	45	37	0	.310	.378	.430	.808	149.8	150.5	.392	4.7
1910	156	668	583	79	167	16	18	5	88	59	56	35	0	.286	.356	.401	.757	122.7	124.4	.367	3.4
1911	142	594	529	74	154	22	22	2	84	44	34	35	0	.291	.348	.427	.775	117.1	121.0	.366	2.5
1912	147	612	552	60	156	14	13	4	78	41	43	23	0	.283	.333	.377	.710	96.0	97.7	.337	1.0
1913	136	538	478	62	127	19	8	5	51	46	48	23	0	.266	.331	.370	.702	101.9	102.2	.334	1.6
1914	131	523	466	51	119	16	8	3	43	38	35	14	7	.255	.314	.343	.658	96.6	98.3	.320	0.8

Career totals

1,124

4,611

4,095

514

1,138

130

104

149th-most career 3B

RBI

514

368

403

202

360th-most career SB

.2779

OBP

.3397

SLG

.3802

OPS

.7199

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	TB
1911-08-19	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	2	1	1	2	11
1907-08-20	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	1	1	9
1912-10-05	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	1	2	9
1910-08-29	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	0	2	0	1	8
1907-05-10	CIN @ ATL Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	1	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-19	CIN @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.