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John Milligan played 10 major-league seasons (1884-1893) as a C (585), 1B (184), OF (9), 3B (2). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 10 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | 23 | PH4 | 66 | 268 | 39 | 77 | 3 | — | 0 | 8 | — | .287 | .726 | 139 |
| 1885 | 24 | PH4 | 67 | 265 | 35 | 71 | 2 | 39 | 0 | 7 | — | .268 | .667 | 114 |
| 1886 | 25 | PH4 | 75 | 301 | 52 | 76 | 5 | 45 | 18 | 21 | — | .252 | .680 | 116 |
| 1887 | 26 | PH4 | 95 | 377 | 54 | 114 | 2 | 50 | 8 | 21 | 30 | .302 | .755 | 114 |
| 1888 | 27 | SL4 | 63 | 219 | 19 | 55 | 5 | 37 | 3 | 17 | 26 | .251 | .676 | 121 |
| 1889 | 28 | SL4 | 72 | 273 | 53 | 100 | 12 | 76 | 2 | 16 | 19 | .366 | 1.030 | 198 |
| 1890 | 29 | PHP | 62 | 234 | 38 | 69 | 3 | 57 | 2 | 19 | 19 | .295 | .760 | 108 |
| 1891 | 30 | PH4 | 118 | 455 | 75 | 138 | 11 | 106 | 2 | 56 | 51 | .303 | .903 | 165 |
| 1892 | 31 | WAS | 88 | 323 | 40 | 89 | 4 | 43 | 2 | 26 | 24 | .276 | .766 | 137 |
| 1893 | 32 | BLN|NY1 | 66 | 249 | 35 | 59 | 2 | 44 | 4 | 19 | 21 | .237 | .664 | 80 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | C | 65 | 0 | 474 | 100 | 37 | 5 |
| 1884 | OF | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1885 | C | 61 | 0 | 419 | 84 | 35 | 11 |
| 1885 | 1B | 6 | 0 | 59 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1885 | OF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 | C | 40 | 0 | 231 | 51 | 25 | 5 |
| 1886 | 1B | 29 | 0 | 291 | 12 | 6 | 8 |
| 1886 | OF | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1886 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 1887 | 1B | 50 | 0 | 436 | 13 | 16 | 21 |
| 1887 | C | 47 | 0 | 262 | 79 | 35 | 10 |
| 1887 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1888 | C | 58 | 0 | 317 | 85 | 25 | 11 |
| 1888 | 1B | 5 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1889 | C | 66 | 0 | 367 | 105 | 34 | 7 |
| 1889 | 1B | 9 | 0 | 58 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 1890 | C | 59 | 0 | 260 | 66 | 39 | 13 |
| 1890 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1891 | C | 87 | 0 | 470 | 101 | 37 | 9 |
| 1891 | 1B | 32 | 0 | 293 | 11 | 6 | 18 |
| 1892 | C | 59 | 0 | 237 | 87 | 18 | 10 |
| 1892 | 1B | 28 | 0 | 285 | 12 | 6 | 12 |
| 1893 | C | 43 | 0 | 193 | 67 | 19 | 5 |
| 1893 | 1B | 22 | 0 | 187 | 17 | 4 | 10 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
John Milligan ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #20 | catchers | 1891 | 165 OPS+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.