Mike Tyson
St. Louis Cardinals 1972–1979; Chicago Cubs 1980–1981
Percentile snapshot
1973 season — qualified batters
of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 13 | 38 | 37 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .189 | .211 | .216 | .427 | 13.4 | 22.8 | .202 | -0.2 |
| 1973 | 144 | 506 | 469 | 48 | 114 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 33 | 23 | 66 | 2 | 5 | .243 | .279 | .299 | .577 | 53.2 | 61.5 | .261 | -0.5 |
| 1974 | 151 | 455 | 422 | 35 | 94 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 37 | 22 | 70 | 4 | 2 | .223 | .264 | .287 | .551 | 46.2 | 55.6 | .253 | -0.6 |
| 1975 | 122 | 402 | 368 | 45 | 98 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 24 | 39 | 5 | 2 | .266 | .316 | .342 | .658 | 78.5 | 80.7 | .309 | 0.8 |
| 1976 | 76 | 264 | 245 | 26 | 70 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 28 | 16 | 34 | 3 | 1 | .286 | .326 | .445 | .771 | 112.2 | 117.3 | .347 | 1.4 |
| 1977 | 138 | 457 | 418 | 42 | 103 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 57 | 30 | 48 | 3 | 4 | .246 | .299 | .342 | .641 | 66.6 | 73.4 | .285 | -0.1 |
| 1978 | 125 | 405 | 377 | 26 | 88 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 24 | 41 | 2 | 0 | .233 | .277 | .300 | .577 | 43.5 | 53.6 | .265 | -1.2 |
| 1979 | 75 | 207 | 190 | 18 | 42 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 13 | 28 | 2 | 1 | .221 | .272 | .363 | .635 | 60.1 | 71.4 | .277 | -0.2 |
| 1980 | 123 | 363 | 341 | 34 | 81 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 15 | 61 | 1 | 2 | .238 | .273 | .337 | .610 | 58.1 | 64.2 | .279 | -0.4 |
| 1981 | 50 | 103 | 92 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .185 | .248 | .272 | .519 | 36.6 | 44.4 | .245 | -0.4 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-05-05 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1976-06-13 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1977-08-19 | SD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1979-04-24 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1974-07-21 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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.