MLB / Players

Mike Shannon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornJuly 15, 1939 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1962

Final gameAugust 12, 1970

Seasons9 (1962–1970)

St. Louis Cardinals 1962–1970

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified batters

150

606

48.3

551

140

42.5

10.8

65.8

41.7

RBI

33.3

38.3

50.8

.254

OBP

.315

17.5

SLG

.365

23.3

OPS

.679

wRC+

89.1

OPS+

90.7

19.2

wOBA

.314

19.2

sWAR

1.5

24.2

of 121 qualified 1969 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.0

35.8

OPS+

97.7

37.1

sWAR

8.6

85.2

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
1962	10	16	15	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.133	.188	.133	.321	-23.6	-14.9	.161	-0.2
1963	32	28	26	3	8	0	0	1	2	0	6	0	1	.308	.333	.423	.756	112.6	109.4	.343	0.0
1964	88	279	253	30	66	8	2	9	43	19	54	4	0	.261	.310	.415	.725	96.1	95.8	.326	0.3
1965	124	280	244	32	54	17	3	3	25	28	46	2	1	.221	.305	.352	.658	83.3	81.0	.305	-0.1
1966	137	501	459	61	132	20	6	16	64	37	106	8	4	.288	.339	.462	.801	123.4	119.4	.359	2.5
1967	130	528	482	53	118	18	3	12	77	37	89	2	4	.245	.302	.369	.672	93.6	94.2	.308	1.6
1968	156	625	576	62	153	29	2	15	79	37	114	1	2	.266	.309	.401	.710	115.7	115.2	.328	3.6
1969	150	606	551	51	140	15	5	12	55	49	87	1	4	.254	.315	.365	.679	89.1	90.7	.314	1.5
1970	55	193	174	18	37	9	2	0	22	16	20	1	1	.213	.275	.287	.562	43.0	50.0	.255	-0.6

Career totals

882

3,056

2,780

313

710

116

RBI

367

224

525

.2554

OBP

.3111

SLG

.3871

OPS

.6982

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
1966-07-22	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	1	1	0	9
1969-08-22	ATL @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	2	1	7
1968-08-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	5	0	6
1966-07-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1964-07-14	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	6

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.