Milt Thompson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1959 · Washington, DC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1984

Final gameJuly 28, 1996

Seasons13 (1984–1996)

Atlanta Braves 1984–1985; Philadelphia Phillies 1986–1988; St. Louis Cardinals 1989–1992; Philadelphia Phillies 1993; Houston Astros 1994; Philadelphia Phillies 1994; Houston Astros 1995; Colorado Rockies 1996; Los Angeles Dodgers 1996

Percentile snapshot

1989 season — qualified batters

155

591

41.6

545

51.2

23.2

158

67.2

88.8

RBI

59.2

23.2

34.4

82.4

.290

78.4

OBP

.340

53.6

SLG

.393

47.2

OPS

.733

52.8

wRC+

108.9

51.2

OPS+

107.1

51.2

wOBA

.338

55.2

sWAR

2.7

of 126 qualified 1989 batters (min 508 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.4

30.7

OPS+

94.2

29.9

sWAR

9.0

85.7

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
1984	25	111	99	16	30	1	0	2	4	11	11	14	2	.303	.373	.374	.746	109.8	105.0	.351	0.4
1985	73	193	182	17	55	7	2	0	6	7	36	9	4	.302	.339	.363	.701	94.2	91.6	.328	0.2
1986	96	332	299	38	75	7	1	6	23	26	62	19	4	.251	.311	.341	.652	78.4	77.7	.305	0.4
1987	150	575	527	86	159	26	9	7	43	42	87	46	10	.302	.351	.425	.776	104.1	101.9	.350	2.4
1988	122	423	378	53	109	16	2	2	33	39	59	17	9	.288	.354	.357	.711	104.9	102.9	.331	1.8
1989	155	591	545	60	158	28	8	4	68	39	91	27	8	.290	.340	.393	.733	108.9	107.1	.338	2.7
1990	135	463	418	42	91	14	7	6	30	39	60	25	5	.218	.292	.328	.620	70.2	71.0	.287	-0.7
1991	115	361	326	55	100	16	5	6	34	32	53	16	9	.307	.368	.442	.809	126.9	127.1	.365	1.9
1992	109	226	208	31	61	9	1	4	17	16	39	18	6	.293	.350	.404	.753	117.5	116.2	.345	1.0
1993	129	387	340	42	89	14	2	4	44	40	57	9	4	.262	.341	.350	.691	85.6	87.2	.313	0.1
1994	96	270	241	34	66	7	0	4	33	24	30	9	2	.274	.346	.353	.698	82.8	82.6	.317	-0.1
1995	92	150	132	14	29	9	0	2	19	14	37	4	2	.220	.297	.333	.631	67.8	71.7	.282	-0.3
1996	62	73	66	3	7	2	0	0	3	7	13	1	1	.106	.192	.136	.328	-9.5	-9.6	.168	-0.9

Career totals

1,359

4,155

3,761

491

1,029

156

RBI

357

336

635

214

328th-most career SB

.2736

OBP

.3354

SLG

.3722

OPS

.7076

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	TB
1990-10-01	STL @ WSH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
1987-08-11	CHC @ PHI Gameday	7	1	5	1	1	0	3	8
1984-09-22	ATL @ SD Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	2	7
1987-07-10	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	2	7
1987-07-26	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	1	2	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.