MEDIA: Do you rely on B-R? How about a shout out at the end of the year?
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Mike Sweeney

Mike Sweeney
Michael John Sweeney

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 6' 1", Weight 195 lb.

Debut September 14, 1995

Born July 22, 1973 in Orange, CA

Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 10th round of the 1991 amateur draft. Player signed July 22, 1991. (All Transactions)

 About biographical information

Minors.B-R: Minor League Stats
BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

Let people know you like this site. Sponsor this page for $25.

  

Batting  Glossary / Minors /
Gamelogs: / Splits: / HR Log / PI Finders:Game / Streak / Event / PI vs. Pitcher
/ Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1995 21 KCR AL   4    4    1    1   0  0   0    0   0  0   0   0  .250  .250  .250   31    1   0   0   0   0   0
 1996 22 KCR AL  50  165   23   46  10  0   4   24   1  2  18  21  .279  .358  .412   96   68   0   3   0   4   7
 1997 23 KCR AL  84  240   30   58   8  0   7   31   3  2  17  33  .242  .306  .363   73   87   1   2   0   6   8
 1998 24 KCR AL  92  282   32   73  18  0   8   35   2  3  24  38  .259  .320  .408   88  115   2   1   1   2   7
 1999 25 KCR AL 150  575  101  185  44  2  22  102   6  1  54  48  .322  .387  .520  128  299   0   4   0  10  21
 2000 26 KCR AL 159  618  105  206  30  0  29  144   8  3  71  67  .333  .407  .523  131  323   0  13   5  15  15 MVP-11,AS
 2001 27 KCR AL 147  559   97  170  46  0  29   99  10  3  64  64  .304  .374  .542  132  303   1   6  13   2  13 MVP-21,AS
 2002 28 KCR AL 126  471   81  160  31  1  24   86   9  7  61  46  .340  .417  .563  148  265   0   7  10   6   9 MVP-20,AS
 2003 29 KCR AL 108  392   62  115  18  1  16   83   3  2  64  56  .293  .391  .467  120  183   0   5   5   2  13 AS
 2004 30 KCR AL 106  411   56  118  23  0  22   79   3  2  33  44  .287  .347  .504  117  207   0   2   9   6   7
 2005 31 KCR AL 122  470   63  141  39  0  21   83   3  0  33  61  .300  .347  .517  127  243   1   6   7   4  16 AS
 2006 32 KCR AL  60  217   23   56  15  0   8   33   2  0  28  48  .258  .349  .438  102   95   0   3   5   4   5
 2007 33 KCR AL  74  265   26   69  15  1   7   38   0  0  17  29  .260  .315  .404   86  107   0   2   4   5   9
 2008 34 OAK AL  42  126   13   36   8  0   2   12   0  0   7   6  .286  .331  .397   99   50   0   1   0   2   3
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 14 Seasons    1324 4795  713 1434 305  5 199  849  50 25 491 561  .299  .368  .489  119 2346   5  55  59  68 133
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        587   87  175  37  1  24  104   6  3  60  69  .299  .368  .489  119  287   1   7   7   8  16
 Career High    159  618  105  206  46  2  29  144  10  7  71  67  .340  .417  .563  148  323   2  13  13  15  21
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1995 21 KCR AL    4    3    0   0.0   110| .250  .272| .250  .346| .250  .429| .500  .774|  31  .000  -0.4   0.0   0%
 1996 22 KCR AL  190  131   24   4.9   115| .279  .276| .358  .349| .412  .443| .770  .792|  96  .441  -0.3   0.0  33%
 1997 23 KCR AL  266  195   26   3.6   110| .242  .272| .306  .342| .363  .431| .669  .773|  73  .338  -9.9  -0.9  60%
 1998 24 KCR AL  311  222   36   4.3   111| .259  .273| .320  .342| .408  .434| .728  .776|  88  .417  -5.5  -0.5  40%
 1999 25 KCR AL  643  416  113   7.2   116| .322  .277| .387  .350| .520  .444| .907  .794| 128  .631  25.1   2.3  85%
 2000 26 KCR AL  717  443  136   8.2   118| .333  .280| .407  .353| .523  .450| .930  .804| 131  .673  33.2   2.9  72%
 2001 27 KCR AL  632  412  113   7.3   113| .304  .275| .374  .343| .542  .442| .916  .785| 132  .664  27.2   2.5  76%
 2002 28 KCR AL  545  334  112   9.0   114| .340  .276| .417  .344| .563  .443| .980  .788| 148  .748  35.9   3.4  56%
 2003 29 KCR AL  463  297   73   6.6   113| .293  .276| .391  .343| .467  .441| .858  .784| 120  .620  13.5   1.3  60%
 2004 30 KCR AL  452  304   71   6.3   111| .287  .273| .347  .341| .504  .438| .851  .779| 117  .585   9.4   0.9  60%
 2005 31 KCR AL  514  352   81   6.1   104| .300  .267| .347  .330| .517  .423| .864  .753| 127  .602  18.9   1.8 100%
 2006 32 KCR AL  252  169   34   5.4   112| .258  .276| .349  .341| .438  .440| .787  .781| 102  .512   1.4   0.1 100%
 2007 33 KCR AL  289  207   32   4.1   110| .260  .274| .315  .342| .404  .429| .719  .772|  86  .409  -6.0  -0.6   0%
 2008 34 OAK AL  136   94   16   4.6    99| .286  .260| .331  .326| .397  .408| .728  .734|  99  .461   0.0   0.0   0%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 14 Seasons     5414 3579  867   6.5   112| .299  .275| .368  .344| .489  .439| .857  .782| 119  .600 142.5  13.2  66%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)

Pitch Data Summary (Show or Hide)

Fielding  Glossary / Minors / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn    PB  WP  SB   CS
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1995 21 KCR AL C 4 7 0 1 0 .875 .986 1.75 5.65 9.00 6.69 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 1996 22 KCR AL C 26 158 7 1 3 .994 .990 6.35 5.84 6.48 6.91 26 229.0 4 9 11 8 DH 22 1997 23 KCR AL C 76 425 31 3 13 .993 .991 6.00 6.08 7.08 7.15 63 579.7 3 20 32 23 DH 3 1998 24 KCR AL C 91 517 33 9 6 .984 .990 6.04 6.17 7.02 7.13 75 705.3 9 38 50 21 1999 25 KCR AL DH 75 1B 74 584 41 12 76 .981 .992 8.45 8.33 8.92 9.50 73 630.7 C 4 4 2 0 0 1.000 .984 1.50 6.10 2.45 7.00 3 22.0 0 1 1 2 2000 26 KCR AL 1B 114 960 88 9 107 .991 .993 9.19 8.17 9.65 9.21 114 977.3 AS DH 45 AS 2001 27 KCR AL 1B 108 946 88 12 124 .989 .993 9.57 8.27 9.99 9.39 108 931.3 AS DH 38 AS 2002 28 KCR AL 1B 102 837 105 9 94 .991 .993 9.24 8.02 9.72 9.33 101 872.0 AS DH 24 AS 2003 29 KCR AL DH 62 AS 1B 45 379 35 4 30 .990 .993 9.20 8.29 9.91 9.55 45 376.0 AS 2004 30 KCR AL 1B 55 467 36 4 44 .992 .994 9.15 8.01 9.61 9.31 55 471.0 DH 47 2005 31 KCR AL DH 73 AS 1B 49 441 29 1 28 .998 .994 9.59 8.11 10.09 9.60 49 419.3 AS 2006 32 KCR AL DH 59 2007 33 KCR AL DH 64 1B 6 40 2 1 5 .977 .995 7.00 7.93 9.62 9.37 6 39.3 2008 34 OAK AL DH 17 1B 13 89 11 0 9 1.000 .994 7.69 8.01 10.00 9.26 11 90.0
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1999 25 KCR AL 1B 74 584 41 12 76 .981 .992 8.45 8.33 8.92 9.50 73 630.7 2000 26 KCR AL 1B 114 960 88 9 107 .991 .993 9.19 8.17 9.65 9.21 114 977.3 2001 27 KCR AL 1B 108 946 88 12 124 .989 .993 9.57 8.27 9.99 9.39 108 931.3 2002 28 KCR AL 1B 102 837 105 9 94 .991 .993 9.24 8.02 9.72 9.33 101 872.0 2003 29 KCR AL 1B 45 379 35 4 30 .990 .993 9.20 8.29 9.91 9.55 45 376.0 2004 30 KCR AL 1B 55 467 36 4 44 .992 .994 9.15 8.01 9.61 9.31 55 471.0 2005 31 KCR AL 1B 49 441 29 1 28 .998 .994 9.59 8.11 10.09 9.60 49 419.3 2007 33 KCR AL 1B 6 40 2 1 5 .977 .995 7.00 7.93 9.62 9.37 6 39.3 2008 34 OAK AL 1B 13 89 11 0 9 1.000 .994 7.69 8.01 10.00 9.26 11 90.0 1995 21 KCR AL C 4 7 0 1 0 .875 .986 1.75 5.65 9.00 6.69 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 1996 22 KCR AL C 26 158 7 1 3 .994 .990 6.35 5.84 6.48 6.91 26 229.0 4 9 11 8 1997 23 KCR AL C 76 425 31 3 13 .993 .991 6.00 6.08 7.08 7.15 63 579.7 3 20 32 23 1998 24 KCR AL C 91 517 33 9 6 .984 .990 6.04 6.17 7.02 7.13 75 705.3 9 38 50 21 1999 25 KCR AL C 4 4 2 0 0 1.000 .984 1.50 6.10 2.45 7.00 3 22.0 0 1 1 2 1996 22 KCR AL DH 22 1997 23 KCR AL DH 3 1999 25 KCR AL DH 75 2000 26 KCR AL DH 45 2001 27 KCR AL DH 38 2002 28 KCR AL DH 24 2003 29 KCR AL DH 62 2004 30 KCR AL DH 47 2005 31 KCR AL DH 73 2006 32 KCR AL DH 59 2007 33 KCR AL DH 64 2008 34 OAK AL DH 17
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+ Position Total 1B* 566 4743 435 52 517 .990 .993 9.15 8.17 9.69 9.38 562 4807.0 DH 529 Games not counted in Overall Total below C* 201 1111 73 14 22 .988 .990 5.89 6.08 6.91 7.10 167 1543.0 16 68 94 54 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+---+---+----+---+ Overall Total 767 5854 508 66 539 .990 .993 8.29 7.62 9.02 8.82 729 6350
An Important note about our fielding stats

All-Star Game Batting 

 Year   Tm  Lg  GS  AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO  SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---------+
 2000   KCR AL       1   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   0   0  0   0   0   0           
 2001   KCR AL       1   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   0   0  0   0   0   0           
 2002   KCR AL       1   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   0   0  0   0   0   0           
 2003   KCR AL       Was selected, but did not play in the game.
 2005   KCR AL       1   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   1   0  0   0   0   0           
+------+---+--+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+---------+
 Played 4/5      0   4   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   1   0  0   0   0   0  .000  .000  .000 
+-------------+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+---+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

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

Awards
2007-ML-Hutch Award

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
2000-AL-11-0.08
2001-AL-21-0.01
2002-AL-20-0.00
Car-909-0.09 shares

Batting Average
2000 AL-.333-7
2002 AL-.340-2
Act-.299-23

On-base %
2002 AL-.417-4

Slugging %
2001 AL-.542-10
2002 AL-.563-7

OPS
2002 AL-.979-5

Games
2000 AL-159-5

At Bats
2000 AL-618-7

Plate Appearances (approx.)
2000 AL-717-3

Hits
2000 AL-206-3

Total Bases
2000 AL-323-10

Doubles
1999 AL-44-2
2001 AL-46-2

RBI
2000 AL-144-2

Singles
2000 AL-147-3

Adjusted OPS+
2002 AL-148-6

Runs Created
2000 AL-136-10

Adjusted Batting Runs
2002 AL-36-10

Batting Wins
2002 AL-3.4-10

Extra-Base Hits
2001 AL-75-9

Times on Base
2000 AL-292-5

Offensive Win%
2002 AL-.748-4

Hit By Pitch
2000 AL-15-1

Sac. Flies
2000 AL-13-2

Intentional Walks
2001 AL-13-6
2002 AL-10-9

Grounded into Double Plays
1999 AL-21-6

At Bats per Strikeout
1999 AL-12.0-3
2000 AL-9.2-8
2001 AL-8.7-6
2002 AL-10.2-5
Act-8.5-17

     

Gray Ink: Batting - 27 (837) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 25.5 (408) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 48.5 (380) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


Similar Batters  View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Jeff Heath (921)
  2. Geoff Jenkins (918)
  3. Pedro Guerrero (915)
  4. Dmitri Young (914)
  5. Richie Zisk (913)
  6. Mike Greenwell (913)
  7. Carl Everett (911)
  8. Rondell White (911)
  9. Cliff Floyd (910)
  10. Tommy Henrich (908)
Similar Batters through Age 33

Compare Stats
  1. Rondell White (929)
  2. Richie Zisk (928)
  3. Jeff Heath (926)
  4. Cliff Floyd (925)
  5. Pedro Guerrero (923)
  6. Tony Oliva (920)
  7. Paul O'Neill (916)
  8. Dmitri Young (914)
  9. Jackie Jensen (911)
  10. Dante Bichette (909)
Most Similar by Age 

Click on C to compare their stats
Mouse over numbers to view names
  1. Jose Castillo (989)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Sammy White (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Jose Vidro (940)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Magglio Ordonez (944)  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. Rondell White (929)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

June 3, 1991: Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 10th round of the 1991 amateur draft. Player signed July 22, 1991.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Salaries Leaders
1995Kansas City Royals$109,000
1996Kansas City Royals$114,000
1997Kansas City Royals$175,000
1998Kansas City Royals$230,000
1999Kansas City Royals$265,000
2000Kansas City Royals$2,250,000
2001Kansas City Royals$5,000,000
2002Kansas City Royals$8,000,000
2003Kansas City Royals$11,000,000
2004Kansas City Royals$11,000,000
2005Kansas City Royals$11,000,000
2006Kansas City Royals$11,000,000
2007Kansas City Royals$11,000,000
Career (may be incomplete)$71,143,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, member of SABR.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Uniforms 
View Mike Sweeney's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     CNN/SI     ESPN     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Mike Sweeney    

Viewed 126628 times through October 12, 2008.
Name and misspellings: Michael mike micheal Mike michael james mark jon John jimmy jim Sweeney sweeny

Pages Updated through October 11,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Mike Sweeney
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through October 11, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.