Milt May

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 1, 1950 · Gary, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1970

Final gameSeptember 30, 1984

Seasons15 (1970–1984)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1970–1973; Houston Astros 1974–1975; Detroit Tigers 1976–1978; Chicago White Sox 1979; Detroit Tigers 1979; San Francisco Giants 1980–1982; Pittsburgh Pirates 1983; San Francisco Giants 1983; Pittsburgh Pirates 1984

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

35.8

354

13.1

316

9.5

52.6

13.9

RBI

22.6

43.8

81.8

11.7

.310

90.5

OBP

.376

86.1

SLG

.383

42.3

OPS

.759

wRC+

118.6

59.9

OPS+

119.2

62.8

wOBA

.351

64.2

sWAR

2.8

73.7

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 344 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.1

23.3

OPS+

93.5

28.4

sWAR

18.2

92.8

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
1970	5	5	4	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.500	.600	.750	1.350	271.1	266.4	.597	0.1
1971	49	137	126	15	35	1	0	6	25	9	16	0	0	.278	.321	.429	.750	107.3	113.1	.334	0.9
1972	57	151	139	12	39	10	0	0	14	10	13	0	0	.281	.325	.353	.677	92.9	95.7	.311	0.7
1973	101	322	283	29	76	8	1	7	31	34	26	0	1	.269	.349	.378	.727	100.0	105.2	.327	1.8
1974	127	453	405	47	117	17	4	7	54	39	33	0	1	.289	.349	.402	.751	112.2	114.3	.347	3.2
1975	111	419	386	29	93	15	1	4	52	26	41	1	2	.241	.287	.316	.603	69.7	72.9	.284	0.8
1976	6	25	25	2	7	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.280	.280	.320	.600	66.8	72.6	.279	0.0
1977	115	438	397	32	99	9	3	12	46	26	31	0	0	.249	.291	.378	.669	73.4	77.4	.297	1.0
1978	105	387	352	24	88	9	0	10	37	27	26	0	0	.250	.305	.361	.666	83.3	85.7	.305	1.4
1979	71	233	213	24	54	15	0	7	31	15	28	0	0	.254	.307	.423	.730	92.7	95.0	.324	1.2
1980	111	393	358	27	93	16	2	6	50	25	40	0	1	.260	.305	.366	.671	86.7	89.7	.306	1.6
1981	97	354	316	20	98	17	0	2	33	34	29	1	4	.310	.376	.383	.759	118.6	119.2	.351	2.8
1982	114	429	395	29	104	19	0	9	39	28	38	0	1	.263	.311	.380	.691	90.1	93.8	.313	1.9
1983	73	221	198	18	49	6	0	6	20	22	24	2	2	.247	.323	.369	.691	88.0	93.6	.312	0.9
1984	50	107	96	4	17	3	0	1	8	10	15	0	1	.177	.255	.240	.494	38.1	40.3	.238	-0.2

Career totals

1,192

4,074

3,693

313

971

147

RBI

443

305

361

.2629

OBP

.3181

SLG

.3712

OPS

.6893

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1977-08-27	LAA @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9
1982-07-11	SF @ WSH Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1975-04-19	HOU @ CIN Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	2	1	7
1980-07-18	SF @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	4	1	7
1978-04-11	DET @ TEX Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	3	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.