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Mike Sweeney

Michael John Sweeney

Positions: Designated Hitter, First Baseman and Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: July 22, 1973 in Orange, CA
High School: Ontario (Ontario, CA)
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 10th round of the 1991 amateur draft.
Signed July 22, 1991. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 4, 1995
Teams (by GP): Royals/Mariners/Athletics/Phillies 1995-2010
Agents: ACES [*]
Final Game: October 3, 2010   vs. ATL 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #574. Ray Chapman… #575. Darin Erstad… #576. Nick Markakis… #577. MIKE SWEENEY… #578. Glenn Wright… #579. Todd Zeile… #580. Pepper Martin… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1995 21 KCR AL 4 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .250 .250 .500 31 1 0 0 0 0 0 /2
1996 22 KCR AL 50 190 165 23 46 10 0 4 24 1 2 18 21 .279 .358 .412 .770 96 68 7 4 0 3 0 2
1997 23 KCR AL 84 266 240 30 58 8 0 7 31 3 2 17 33 .242 .306 .363 .668 74 87 8 6 1 2 0 2
1998 24 KCR AL 92 311 282 32 73 18 0 8 35 2 3 24 38 .259 .320 .408 .728 88 115 7 2 2 1 1 2
1999 25 KCR AL 150 643 575 101 185 44 2 22 102 6 1 54 48 .322 .387 .520 .907 128 299 21 10 0 4 0 3/2
2000 26 KCR AL 159 717 618 105 206 30 0 29 144 8 3 71 67 .333 .407 .523 .930 131 323 15 15 0 13 5 *3 AS,MVP-11
2001 27 KCR AL 147 632 559 97 170 46 0 29 99 10 3 64 64 .304 .374 .542 .916 131 303 13 2 1 6 13 3 AS,MVP-21
2002 28 KCR AL 126 545 471 81 160 31 1 24 86 9 7 61 46 .340 .417 .563 .979 148 265 9 6 0 7 10 3 AS,MVP-20
2003 29 KCR AL 108 463 392 62 115 18 1 16 83 3 2 64 56 .293 .391 .467 .858 120 183 13 2 0 5 5 3 AS
2004 30 KCR AL 106 452 411 56 118 23 0 22 79 3 2 33 44 .287 .347 .504 .851 117 207 7 6 0 2 9 3
2005 31 KCR AL 122 514 470 63 141 39 0 21 83 3 0 33 61 .300 .347 .517 .864 127 243 16 4 1 6 7 3 AS
2006 32 KCR AL 60 252 217 23 56 15 0 8 33 2 0 28 48 .258 .349 .438 .787 102 95 5 4 0 3 5
2007 33 KCR AL 74 289 265 26 69 15 1 7 38 0 0 17 29 .260 .315 .404 .719 88 107 9 5 0 2 4 /3
2008 34 OAK AL 42 136 126 13 36 8 0 2 12 0 0 7 6 .286 .331 .397 .728 97 50 3 2 0 1 0 3
2009 35 SEA AL 74 266 242 25 68 15 0 8 34 0 0 17 31 .281 .335 .442 .777 108 107 4 4 0 3 2 /3
2010 36 TOT MLB 56 168 151 21 38 5 0 8 26 3 0 14 21 .252 .321 .444 .765 110 67 5 2 0 1 0 D3
2010 36 SEA AL 30 110 99 11 26 3 0 6 18 2 0 9 14 .263 .327 .475 .802 123 47 3 1 0 1 0 3/3
2010 36 PHI NL 26 58 52 10 12 2 0 2 8 1 0 5 7 .231 .310 .385 .695 85 20 2 1 0 0 0 3/3
16 Seasons 1454 5848 5188 759 1540 325 5 215 909 53 25 522 613 .297 .366 .486 .851 118 2520 142 74 5 59 61
162 Game Avg. 162 652 578 85 172 36 1 24 101 6 3 58 68 .297 .366 .486 .851 118 281 16 8 1 7 7
G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
KCR (13 yrs) 1282 5278 4669 700 1398 297 5 197 837 50 25 484 555 .299 .369 .492 .861 119 2296 130 66 5 54 59
SEA (2 yrs) 104 376 341 36 94 18 0 14 52 2 0 26 45 .276 .332 .452 .784 112 154 7 5 0 4 2
PHI (1 yr) 26 58 52 10 12 2 0 2 8 1 0 5 7 .231 .310 .385 .695 85 20 2 1 0 0 0
OAK (1 yr) 42 136 126 13 36 8 0 2 12 0 0 7 6 .286 .331 .397 .728 97 50 3 2 0 1 0
AL (16 yrs) 1428 5790 5136 749 1528 323 5 213 901 52 25 517 606 .298 .366 .487 .853 119 2500 140 73 5 59 61
NL (1 yr) 26 58 52 10 12 2 0 2 8 1 0 5 7 .231 .310 .385 .695 85 20 2 1 0 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1995 21 KCR AL 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $109,000 /2
1996 22 KCR AL 190 1 -1 0 -2 1 -1 7 5 0.5 4 0.4 0.1 $114,000 2
1997 23 KCR AL 266 -9 1 2 -1 4 4 9 10 1.0 6 0.6 0.4 $175,000 2
1998 24 KCR AL 311 -6 -3 -1 -1 -6 5 11 -1 -0.1 5 0.5 -0.6 $230,000 2
1999 25 KCR AL 643 26 1 -2 -2 -6 -12 21 26 2.5 32 3.2 -0.7 $265,000 3/2
2000 26 KCR AL 717 40 -3 0 1 -5 -12 22 43 4.1 48 4.7 -0.6 $2,250,000 *3 AS,MVP-11
2001 27 KCR AL 632 25 0 0 1 8 -11 21 44 4.3 36 3.6 0.7 $5,000,000 3 AS,MVP-21
2002 28 KCR AL 545 34 0 1 -1 5 -9 18 48 4.7 43 4.2 0.5 $8,000,000 3 AS,MVP-20
2003 29 KCR AL 463 16 0 3 -2 1 -9 15 24 2.4 23 2.3 0.1 $11,000,000 3 AS
2004 30 KCR AL 452 9 -2 1 -1 -7 -8 15 7 0.7 14 1.4 -0.7 $11,000,000 3
2005 31 KCR AL 514 17 2 0 -2 -3 -10 17 21 2.1 24 2.4 -0.3 $11,000,000 3 AS
2006 32 KCR AL 252 1 -1 0 0 0 -6 8 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $11,000,000
2007 33 KCR AL 289 -6 1 2 -2 -0 -7 10 -2 -0.2 -2 -0.2 0.0 $11,000,000 /3
2008 34 OAK AL 136 0 0 0 0 0 -2 5 3 0.3 3 0.3 0.0 $500,000 3
2009 35 SEA AL 266 0 -0 -0 -0 -2 -6 9 0 0.0 2 0.2 -0.2 $500,000 /3
2010 36 SEA AL 110 3 0 -1 -1 0 -2 4 3 0.3 3 0.3 0.0 $650,000 3/3
2010 36 PHI NL 58 -1 0 2 -0 -0 -1 2 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ 3/3
16 Seasons 5848 150 -5 7 -13 -9 -87 193 234 22.9 244 24.2 -1.3 $72,793,000
Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
KCR (13 yrs) 5278 148 -5 6 -12 -8 -76 174 227 22.2 235 23.3 -1.1 $71,143,000
SEA (2 yrs) 376 3 -0 -1 -1 -2 -8 13 3 0.3 5 0.5 -0.2 $1,150,000
PHI (1 yr) 58 -1 0 2 -0 -0 -1 2 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $
OAK (1 yr) 136 0 0 0 0 0 -2 5 3 0.3 3 0.3 0.0 $500,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2010 36 PHI NL NLDS CIN W 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLDS 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 1 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% PO Awards
1995 KCR AL 21 C 4 8 7 0 1 0 .875 0 1.75 .990 6.68 0 0 0
1996 KCR AL 22 C 26 166 158 7 1 3 .994 1 6.35 .990 6.87 4 11 8 42%
1996 KCR AL 22 DH 22 22
1997 KCR AL 23 C 76 459 425 31 3 13 .993 4 6.00 .991 7.09 3 32 23 42%
1997 KCR AL 23 DH 2 2
1998 KCR AL 24 C 91 559 517 33 9 6 .984 -6 6.04 .990 7.05 9 50 21 30%
1999 KCR AL 25 1B 74 637 584 41 12 76 .981 -7 8.45 .992 9.35
1999 KCR AL 25 C 4 6 4 2 0 0 1.000 1 1.50 .992 6.88 0 1 2 67%
1999 KCR AL 25 DH 69 69
2000 KCR AL 26 1B 114 1057 960 88 9 107 .991 -5 9.19 .993 9.26 AS,MVP-11
2000 KCR AL 26 DH 45 45 AS,MVP-11
2001 KCR AL 27 1B 108 1045 945 88 12 124 .989 8 9.56 .993 9.31 AS,MVP-21
2001 KCR AL 27 DH 38 38 AS,MVP-21
2002 KCR AL 28 1B 102 952 838 105 9 94 .991 5 9.25 .993 9.23 AS,MVP-20
2002 KCR AL 28 DH 24 24 AS,MVP-20
2003 KCR AL 29 1B 45 418 379 35 4 30 .990 1 -2 9.20 .993 9.46 AS
2003 KCR AL 29 DH 62 62 AS
2004 KCR AL 30 1B 55 507 467 36 4 44 .992 -7 -5 9.15 .994 9.25
2004 KCR AL 30 DH 47 47
2005 KCR AL 31 1B 49 471 441 29 1 29 .998 -3 -5 9.59 .994 9.49 AS
2005 KCR AL 31 DH 73 73 AS
2006 KCR AL 32 DH 59 59
2007 KCR AL 33 1B 6 43 40 2 1 5 .977 -0 0 7.00 .995 9.27
2007 KCR AL 33 DH 64 64
2008 OAK AL 34 1B 13 100 89 11 0 9 1.000 0 1 7.69 .994 9.18
2008 OAK AL 34 DH 17 17
2009 SEA AL 35 1B 5 31 29 0 2 3 .935 -2 -2 5.80 .994 9.02
2009 SEA AL 35 DH 57 57
2010 TOT MLB 36 1B 17 141 132 7 2 9 .986 -0 0 8.18 .993 9.15
2010 PHI NL 36 1B 14 112 104 6 2 8 .982 -0 0 7.86 .993 9.13
2010 SEA AL 36 1B 3 29 28 1 0 1 1.000 0 0 9.67 .994 9.23
2010 SEA AL 36 DH 22 21
11 Seasons 1B 588 5402 4904 442 56 530 .990 -9 -13 9.09 .993 9.30
5 Seasons C 201 1198 1111 73 14 22 .988 0 5.89 .990 7.03 16 94 54 36%
16 Seasons TOT 789 6600 6015 515 70 552 .989 -9 -13 8.28 .993 8.72 16 94 54 36%
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG PB WP SB CS CS% PO Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2000 *
2001 *
2002 *
2003
2005 *

Awards (yr lg award)
2007 ML Hutch Award

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2000 AL (11, 8%)
2001 AL (21, 1%)
2002 AL (20, 0%)
0.09 Career Shares (940th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2000 AL  .333 (7th)
2002 AL  .340 (2nd)
Career  .297 (250th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2002 AL  .417 (4th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2001 AL  .542 (10th)
2002 AL  .563 (7th)
Career  .486 (159th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2002 AL  .979 (5th)
Career  .851 (164th)

Games Played s c a p y
2000 AL  159 (5th)

At Bats s c a p y
2000 AL  618 (7th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2000 AL  717 (3rd)

Hits s c a p y
2000 AL  206 (3rd)

Total Bases s c a p y
2000 AL  323 (10th)

Doubles s c a p y
1999 AL  44 (2nd)
2001 AL  46 (2nd)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2000 AL  144 (2nd)

Singles s c a p y
2000 AL  147 (3rd)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2002 AL  148 (6th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2000 AL  136 (10th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2002 AL  36 (10th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2002 AL  3.4 (10th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2001 AL  75 (9th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2000 AL  292 (5th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2002 AL  .748 (4th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2000 AL  15 (1st)
Career  74 (184th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2000 AL  13 (2nd)
Career  59 (222nd)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2001 AL  13 (6th)
2002 AL  10 (9th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1999 AL  21 (6th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1999 AL  12.0 (3rd)
2000 AL  9.2 (8th)
2001 AL  8.7 (6th)
2002 AL  10.2 (5th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2000 AL  42.95 (10th)
2002 AL  40.97 (8th)
Career  199.28 (196th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2002 AL  4.8 (5th)
2003 AL  3.7 (6th)
Career  15.2 (240th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2000 AL  3.4 (10th)
2002 AL  3.2 (9th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2000 AL  3.8 (10th)
2002 AL  3.7 (9th)
Career  17.9 (213th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
1998 AL  9 (1st)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2000 AL  88 (3rd)
2001 AL  88 (5th)
2002 AL  105 (1st)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1999 AL  12 (3rd)
2000 AL  9 (5th)
2001 AL  12 (1st)
2002 AL  9 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
2001 AL  8 (3rd)
2002 AL  5 (3rd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
2000 AL  9.65 (3rd)
2001 AL  9.98 (3rd)
2002 AL  9.73 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
2000 AL  9.19 (4th)
2001 AL  9.56 (2nd)
2002 AL  9.25 (5th)

                                         

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 27 (855), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 48 (399), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 28 (364), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  8. Aubrey Huff (905)
  9. Jackie Jensen (902)
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  4. Magglio Ordonez (943)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Fred Lynn (951)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Fred Lynn (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Fred Lynn (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Magglio Ordonez (964)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Magglio Ordonez (938)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Jeff Heath (931)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Dante Bichette (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  12. Pedro Guerrero (947)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
199521Kansas City Royals$109,0001997 Joint Exhibit 1
199622Kansas City Royals$114,0001997 Joint Exhibit 1
199723Kansas City Royals$175,0001997 postseason AP surveyIncludes $10,000 earned bonus
199824Kansas City Royals$230,0002001 Joint Exhibit 1
199925Kansas City Royals$265,0002001 Joint Exhibit 1
200026Kansas City Royals$2,250,000*
200127Kansas City Royals$5,000,0004/6/01 USA Today
200228Kansas City Royals$8,000,0004/3/02 AP
200329Kansas City Royals$11,000,0004/3/03 AP
200430Kansas City Royals$11,000,0004/7/04 AP
200531Kansas City Royals$11,000,000
200632Kansas City Royals$11,000,000
200733Kansas City Royals$11,000,000
200834Oakland Athletics$500,000
200935Seattle Mariners$500,000
201036Seattle Mariners$650,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$72,793,000
Disputed Salaries
*2000 - $2,450,000 - 2001 Joint Exhibit 1 - Includes $200,000 earned bonus
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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