Mike Morgan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 8, 1959 · Tulare, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 11, 1978

Final gameSeptember 2, 2002

Seasons22 (1978–2002)

Oakland Athletics 1978–1979; New York Yankees 1982; Toronto Blue Jays 1983; Seattle Mariners 1985–1987; Baltimore Orioles 1988; Los Angeles Dodgers 1989–1991; Chicago Cubs 1992–1995; St. Louis Cardinals 1995; Cincinnati Reds 1996; St. Louis Cardinals 1996; Cincinnati Reds 1997; Chicago Cubs 1998; Minnesota Twins 1998; Texas Rangers 1999; Arizona Diamondbacks 2000–2002

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified pitchers

23.2

20.7

15.9

14.6

SHO

165

54.9

82.9

103

9.8

162.0

ERA

4.78

15.9

WHIP

1.321

K/9

5.72

35.4

FIP

3.90

56.1

FIP-

91.6

58.5

ERA+

89.1

9.8

sWAR

0.5

8.5

of 83 qualified 1997 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.0

sWAR

22.4

94.5

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1978	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1979	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.9
1982	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1983	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1985	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1986	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1987	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1988	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1989	40	40	36	1	3	0	0	1	1	12	.083	.108	.083	.191	-56.5	-43.6	.096	3.0
1990	33	78	71	2	8	0	0	2	2	25	.113	.137	.113	.250	-39.4	-29.0	.122	1.7
1991	34	87	76	2	7	0	0	3	1	11	.092	.101	.092	.193	-59.5	-44.4	.091	4.3
1992	34	88	74	1	8	0	0	5	2	16	.108	.130	.108	.238	-54.3	-32.7	.116	5.3
1993	32	73	66	1	4	2	0	1	2	22	.061	.088	.091	.179	-63.4	-51.5	.087	1.6
1994	15	26	24	1	3	0	0	0	1	4	.125	.160	.125	.285	-33.1	-23.7	.138	-1.5
1995	21	45	38	2	2	0	0	0	3	20	.053	.122	.053	.175	-58.1	-51.9	.099	2.0
1996	23	51	40	1	2	0	0	0	0	17	.050	.050	.050	.100	-89.4	-73.2	.046	0.3
1997	31	54	44	1	4	0	1	2	0	14	.091	.111	.136	.247	-52.4	-35.8	.114	0.5
1998	23	9	8	1	5	1	0	0	0	3	.625	.625	.750	1.375	276.6	254.9	.611	2.0
1999	34	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	18.6	26.5	.225	-0.3
2000	60	17	16	0	7	0	0	1	0	5	.438	.438	.438	.875	126.6	121.2	.395	1.0
2001	31	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	354.1	—	.731	0.5
2002	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	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
1978	3	3	0	3	0	1	0	19	10	8	0	1	12.3	7.30	2.189	0.00	5.55	152.9	49.8	-0.4
1979	13	13	2	10	0	2	0	102	51	50	17	7	77.3	5.94	1.966	1.98	5.56	137.6	68.1	-0.9
1982	30	23	7	11	0	2	0	167	73	67	71	15	150.3	4.37	1.557	4.25	4.42	110.4	91.5	0.8
1983	16	4	0	3	0	0	0	48	26	21	22	6	45.3	5.16	1.522	4.37	4.97	116.6	82.5	0.0
1985	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	11	8	5	2	2	6.0	12.00	2.667	3.00	8.91	212.3	35.0	-0.5
1986	37	33	11	17	1	9	1	243	109	86	116	24	216.3	4.53	1.521	4.83	4.41	104.3	93.3	1.4
1987	34	31	12	17	0	8	2	245	107	53	85	25	207.0	4.65	1.440	3.70	4.46	95.5	100.5	2.1
1988	22	10	1	6	1	2	0	70	43	23	29	6	71.3	5.43	1.304	3.66	4.11	105.0	72.2	-0.5
1989	40	19	8	11	0	0	0	130	43	33	72	6	152.7	2.53	1.068	4.24	2.92	85.4	134.7	3.0
1990	33	33	11	15	0	6	4	216	88	60	106	19	211.0	3.75	1.308	4.52	3.90	106.1	98.0	1.7
1991	34	33	14	10	1	5	1	197	73	61	140	12	236.3	2.78	1.092	5.33	3.08	85.5	129.6	4.3
1992	34	34	16	8	0	6	1	203	68	79	123	14	240.0	2.55	1.175	4.61	3.53	97.7	141.8	5.3
1993	32	32	10	15	0	1	1	206	93	74	111	15	207.7	4.03	1.348	4.81	4.02	100.3	99.3	1.6
1994	15	15	2	10	0	1	0	111	60	35	57	12	80.7	6.69	1.810	6.36	5.04	120.4	62.5	-1.5
1995	21	21	7	7	0	1	0	133	52	34	61	12	131.3	3.56	1.272	4.18	4.24	101.8	116.8	2.0
1996	23	23	6	11	0	0	0	146	67	47	74	16	130.3	4.63	1.481	5.11	4.66	111.4	90.4	0.3
1997	31	30	9	12	0	1	0	165	86	49	103	13	162.0	4.78	1.321	5.72	3.90	91.6	89.1	0.5
1998	23	22	4	3	0	0	0	138	56	39	60	21	120.7	4.18	1.467	4.48	5.63	122.1	111.4	2.0
1999	34	25	13	10	0	1	0	184	97	48	61	25	140.0	6.24	1.657	3.92	5.83	115.6	80.9	-0.3
2000	60	4	5	5	5	0	0	123	55	40	56	10	101.7	4.87	1.603	4.96	4.44	94.4	96.6	1.0
2001	31	1	1	0	0	0	0	45	18	17	24	2	38.0	4.26	1.632	5.68	3.77	82.8	106.8	0.5
2002	29	0	1	1	0	0	0	41	20	9	13	7	34.0	5.29	1.471	3.44	5.85	133.7	82.6	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

597

573

497

RBI

151

.1087

OBP

.1323

SLG

.1187

OPS

.2510

Pitching

G (P)

597

248th-most career G (P)

411

123rd-most career GS

141

308th-most career W

186

59th-most career L

SHO

2,772

182nd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,403

281st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

938

143rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.230

WHIP

1.3999

K/9

4.55

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	RBI	TB
1997-04-17	CIN @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	1	3
1990-09-21	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	1	2	0	0	1	2
1997-09-15	CIN @ CHC Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
2000-07-21	AZ @ CIN Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	1	2
1993-08-25	CHC @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1989-05-27	NYM @ LAD Gameday	8.2	7	1	1	3	9	0
1989-05-15	LAD @ NYM Gameday	7.2	4	1	1	1	9	1
1991-10-05	LAD @ SF Gameday	7.0	4	4	2	2	9	0
1986-08-28	NYY @ SEA Gameday	9.0	7	4	4	2	8	2
1987-09-25	TEX @ SEA Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	0	8	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.