Mitch Williams

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 180 lb

BornNovember 17, 1964 · Santa Ana, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 9, 1986

Final gameMay 10, 1997

Seasons11 (1986–1997)

Texas Rangers 1986–1988; Chicago Cubs 1989–1990; Philadelphia Phillies 1991–1993; Houston Astros 1994; California Angels 1995; Kansas City Royals 1997

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

10.0

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	80	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1987	85	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
1988	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1989	76	5	5	1	1	1	3	0	1	.200	.200	.800	1.000	167.2	165.3	.426	1.9
1990	59	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.2	-100.0	.000	0.7
1991	69	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	133.4	53.9	.373	2.3
1992	66	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	32.3	42.1	.232	0.6
1993	65	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	482.4	442.5	.914	1.1
1994	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6
1995	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1997	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	80	0	8	6	8	69	39	79	90	8	98.0	3.58	1.510	8.27	4.77	111.7	119.2	1.7
1987	85	1	8	6	6	63	39	94	129	9	108.7	3.23	1.445	10.68	4.36	97.4	138.8	2.5
1988	67	0	2	7	18	48	35	47	61	4	68.0	4.63	1.397	8.07	4.13	101.5	87.8	0.2
1989	76	0	4	4	36	71	25	52	67	6	81.7	2.76	1.506	7.38	4.18	112.1	135.4	1.9
1990	59	2	1	8	16	60	29	50	55	4	66.3	3.93	1.658	7.46	4.24	104.8	102.9	0.7
1991	69	0	12	5	30	56	23	62	84	4	88.3	2.34	1.336	8.56	3.86	104.9	156.9	2.3
1992	66	0	5	8	29	69	34	64	74	4	81.0	3.78	1.642	8.22	4.18	118.3	93.6	0.6
1993	65	0	3	7	43	56	23	44	60	3	62.0	3.34	1.613	8.71	3.89	97.2	120.0	1.1
1994	25	0	1	4	6	21	17	24	21	4	20.0	7.65	2.250	9.45	7.32	182.4	52.4	-0.6
1995	20	0	1	2	0	13	8	21	9	1	10.7	6.75	3.188	7.59	9.14	195.0	69.4	-0.1
1997	7	0	0	1	0	11	8	7	10	2	6.7	10.80	2.700	13.50	7.20	154.4	43.2	-0.4

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

619

RBI

.1875

OBP

.2353

SLG

.3750

OPS

.6103

Pitching

G (P)

619

213th-most career G (P)

192

58th-most career SV

SHO

691

SO (P)

660

BB allowed

544

ERA

3.645

WHIP

1.5636

K/9

8.59

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	HR	RBI	TB
1989-09-18	NYM @ CHC Gameday	1	1	1	1	3	4
1993-07-02	SD @ PHI Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	1
1992-04-21	PHI @ CHC Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1
1989-04-04	PHI @ CHC Gameday	1	0	0	0	0	0
1989-04-06	PHI @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-10-01	SEA @ TEX Gameday	4.0	4	5	3	3	6	1
1987-08-08	TEX @ BAL Gameday	3.0	2	2	1	1	5	1
1986-06-09	TEX @ MIN Gameday	2.0	3	1	1	1	5	0
1988-05-17	TEX @ TOR Gameday	4.0	3	1	1	1	4	0
1986-06-11	TEX @ MIN Gameday	3.0	0	0	0	1	4	0

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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.