Mike Paxton
Boston Red Sox 1977; Cleveland Indians 1978–1980
Percentile snapshot
1978 season — qualified pitchers
of 91 qualified 1978 pitchers (min 159 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.8 |
| 1978 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.7 |
| 1979 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.3 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 29 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 134 | 46 | 25 | 58 | 7 | 108.0 | 3.83 | 1.472 | 4.83 | 3.29 | 74.0 | 115.9 | 1.8 |
| 1978 | 33 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 179 | 82 | 63 | 96 | 13 | 191.0 | 3.86 | 1.267 | 4.52 | 3.55 | 94.4 | 97.3 | 1.7 |
| 1979 | 33 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 210 | 105 | 52 | 70 | 14 | 159.7 | 5.92 | 1.641 | 3.95 | 4.04 | 94.7 | 72.2 | -1.3 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7.7 | 12.91 | 2.478 | 7.04 | 10.32 | 251.7 | 31.8 | -0.7 |
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
Pitching
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
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-08-31 | MIL @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 1979-07-02 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 7.2 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978-09-14 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 7.1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978-07-03 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1978-07-21 | SEA @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 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.