Mike Torrez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 220 lb

BornAugust 28, 1946 · Topeka, KS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1967

Final gameJuly 27, 1984

Seasons18 (1967–1984)

St. Louis Cardinals 1967–1970; Montreal Expos 1971; St. Louis Cardinals 1971; Montreal Expos 1972–1974; Baltimore Orioles 1975; Oakland Athletics 1976; New York Yankees 1977; Oakland Athletics 1977; Boston Red Sox 1978–1982; New York Mets 1983–1984; Oakland Athletics 1984

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified pitchers

94.3

1.1

SHO

227

26.4

108

10.3

113

29.9

57.5

222.3

66.7

ERA

4.37

17.2

WHIP

1.529

4.6

K/9

3.81

19.5

FIP

4.30

16.1

FIP-

118.8

11.5

ERA+

82.8

5.7

sWAR

-0.4

3.4

of 88 qualified 1983 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.1

26.3

sWAR

25.6

95.5

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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1967	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.8	-100.0	.000	0.1
1968	5	7	7	1	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	70.6	74.7	.269	0.3
1969	24	46	41	3	3	1	0	0	1	13	0	0	.073	.095	.098	.193	-62.8	-45.6	.094	0.8
1970	30	66	63	4	17	2	1	5	0	18	0	0	.270	.281	.333	.615	60.1	63.2	.281	2.0
1971	10	11	7	0	1	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	.143	.400	.286	.686	120.2	94.7	.359	-0.5
1972	34	91	85	6	15	2	0	2	2	30	0	0	.176	.195	.200	.395	-0.6	11.9	.187	3.0
1973	36	76	69	4	12	1	0	0	1	20	0	0	.174	.186	.188	.374	-9.2	2.8	.176	0.3
1974	36	69	64	4	8	1	0	3	2	25	1	1	.125	.152	.141	.292	-34.0	-19.4	.144	2.0
1975	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.2
1976	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.5
1977	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1978	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
1979	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1980	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1981	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1982	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1983	39	74	65	2	3	0	0	2	1	20	0	0	.046	.061	.046	.107	-90.2	-69.8	.054	-0.4
1984	11	11	10	0	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	.300	.364	.300	.664	98.0	90.7	.323	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1967	3	1	0	1	0	0	5	2	1	5	0	5.7	3.18	1.059	7.94	1.95	59.3	103.7	0.1
1968	5	2	2	1	0	0	20	6	12	6	1	19.3	2.79	1.655	2.79	4.61	158.4	104.3	0.3
1969	24	15	10	4	3	0	96	43	62	61	7	107.7	3.59	1.467	5.10	4.18	116.6	99.7	0.8
1970	30	28	8	10	5	1	168	84	103	100	12	179.3	4.22	1.511	5.02	4.39	106.6	97.8	2.0
1971	10	6	1	2	0	0	45	24	31	10	2	39.0	5.54	1.949	2.31	5.16	144.0	64.6	-0.5
1972	34	33	16	12	13	0	215	90	103	112	15	243.3	3.33	1.307	4.14	3.75	106.6	105.8	3.0
1973	35	34	9	12	3	1	207	103	115	90	17	208.0	4.46	1.548	3.89	4.46	118.1	84.8	0.3
1974	32	30	15	8	6	1	184	74	84	92	10	186.3	3.57	1.438	4.44	3.70	97.4	106.2	2.0
1975	36	36	20	9	16	2	238	92	133	119	15	270.7	3.06	1.371	3.96	3.93	110.6	116.1	4.2
1976	39	39	16	12	13	4	231	74	87	115	15	266.3	2.50	1.194	3.89	3.53	104.4	135.4	5.5
1977	35	35	17	13	17	2	235	105	86	102	23	243.3	3.88	1.319	3.77	4.28	107.3	102.7	2.7
1978	36	36	16	13	15	2	272	110	99	120	19	250.0	3.96	1.484	4.32	3.80	93.3	103.0	2.8
1979	36	36	16	13	12	1	254	126	121	125	20	252.3	4.49	1.486	4.46	4.30	97.8	98.0	2.3
1980	36	32	9	16	6	1	256	117	75	97	18	207.3	5.08	1.596	4.21	4.05	96.6	82.6	0.0
1981	22	22	10	3	2	0	130	52	51	54	10	127.3	3.68	1.421	3.82	3.91	102.1	104.3	1.5
1982	31	31	9	9	1	0	196	102	74	84	20	175.7	5.23	1.537	4.30	4.58	107.4	81.6	-0.2
1983	39	34	10	17	5	0	227	108	113	94	16	222.3	4.37	1.529	3.81	4.30	118.8	82.8	-0.4
1984	11	8	1	5	0	0	64	28	21	18	3	40.0	6.30	2.125	4.05	4.59	129.3	56.3	-0.8

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

499

452

412

RBI

131

.1553

OBP

.1792

SLG

.1796

OPS

.3588

Pitching

G (P)

494

460th-most career G (P)

458

83rd-most career GS

185

159th-most career W

160

121st-most career L

117

340th-most career CG

SHO

396th-most career SHO

3,044

132nd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,404

280th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,371

23rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.962

WHIP

1.4501

K/9

4.15

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
1970-07-19	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	0	5
1970-04-15	WSH @ STL Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	1	3
1970-09-18	PHI @ STL Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	3	3
1970-06-15	STL @ SD Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	2
1972-06-13	WSH @ HOU Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1970-08-03	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	3	10	0
1979-09-23	DET @ BOS Gameday	10.0	7	3	2	4	9	0
1975-07-11	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	9	0
1977-10-14	NYY @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	3	9	1
1978-06-25	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	9	1	1	3	9	1

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.