finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1999 right orange , california 1990 october 3 .247 36 121 outfielder texas rangers batting average home runs runs batted in september 5 12 january 1967 mike simms
 houston astros mike simms right
mike simms

michael howard simms is a former major league baseball outfielder .
he played all or part of nine seasons in the majors between and .
six of those seasons -lrb- 1990 -- 92 and 1994 -- 96 -rrb- were spent with the houston astros , and three -lrb- 1997 -- 99 -rrb- with the texas rangers .
simms was drafted out of esperanza high school in anaheim , california by the astros in 1985 .
most of his career highs were set in for the rangers , when he batted .296 with 16 home runs and 46 rbi in just 186 at bats .
despite his performance , he played just four games with texas in 1999 and none in the majors thereafter .
