Mike Vail
New York Mets 1975–1977; Chicago Cubs 1978; Cleveland Indians 1978; Chicago Cubs 1979–1980; Cincinnati Reds 1981–1982; Montreal Expos 1983; San Francisco Giants 1983; Los Angeles Dodgers 1984
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 38 | 171 | 162 | 17 | 49 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 37 | 0 | 0 | .302 | .339 | .420 | .759 | 115.6 | 115.4 | .352 | 0.7 |
| 1976 | 53 | 152 | 143 | 8 | 31 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .217 | .243 | .266 | .509 | 43.9 | 49.1 | .241 | -0.7 |
| 1977 | 108 | 303 | 279 | 29 | 73 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 35 | 19 | 58 | 0 | 7 | .262 | .310 | .398 | .708 | 93.6 | 93.3 | .321 | 0.3 |
| 1978 | 88 | 222 | 214 | 17 | 68 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 33 | 1 | 2 | .318 | .326 | .439 | .765 | 102.6 | 104.2 | .346 | 0.5 |
| 1979 | 87 | 195 | 179 | 28 | 60 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 35 | 14 | 27 | 0 | 2 | .335 | .379 | .520 | .899 | 138.2 | 133.8 | .403 | 1.4 |
| 1980 | 114 | 328 | 312 | 30 | 93 | 17 | 2 | 6 | 47 | 14 | 77 | 2 | 5 | .298 | .330 | .423 | .753 | 104.2 | 102.4 | .346 | 0.8 |
| 1981 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .161 | .161 | .161 | .323 | -26.3 | -8.5 | .152 | -0.4 |
| 1982 | 78 | 197 | 189 | 9 | 48 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 6 | 33 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .274 | .381 | .655 | 75.8 | 80.4 | .296 | -0.2 |
| 1983 | 52 | 89 | 79 | 6 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .241 | .326 | .354 | .680 | 95.7 | 92.0 | .323 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .118 | .063 | .180 | -55.9 | -47.3 | .099 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-06 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1980-05-30 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1979-09-09 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1980-05-10 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1979-08-09 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
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.