MLB / Players

Chuck Dobson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 10, 1944 · Kansas City, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1966

Final gameMay 26, 1975

Seasons9 (1966–1975)

Kansas City Athletics 1966–1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1971; Oakland Athletics 1973; California Angels 1974–1975

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified pitchers

3.7

54.9

98.8

20.7

SHO

13.4

185

75.6

43.9

100

19.5

189.0

20.7

ERA

3.81

19.5

WHIP

1.354

19.5

K/9

4.76

34.1

FIP

4.09

9.8

FIP-

122.5

7.3

ERA+

87.7

13.4

sWAR

1.1

19.5

of 83 qualified 1971 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

88.0

3.8

sWAR

5.0

79.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	2B	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1966	14	28	26	1	3	0	3	0	6	0	.115	.115	.115	.231	-50.9	-32.7	.105	0.0
1967	33	76	72	6	13	0	3	0	17	0	.181	.192	.181	.372	0.2	12.0	.175	0.6
1968	35	81	75	4	15	3	3	0	14	1	.200	.200	.240	.440	21.2	35.0	.203	2.2
1969	35	92	79	6	8	1	9	2	12	0	.101	.120	.114	.234	-47.5	-32.5	.113	0.8
1970	41	99	93	4	11	1	8	1	12	0	.118	.128	.129	.257	-43.2	-27.4	.120	1.7
1971	30	76	66	9	13	5	8	3	9	0	.197	.225	.273	.498	34.2	43.6	.231	1.1
1973	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1974	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1975	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1966	14	14	4	6	1	0	71	38	50	61	7	83.7	4.09	1.446	6.56	3.93	116.0	82.9	0.0
1967	32	29	10	10	4	1	172	81	75	110	17	197.7	3.69	1.250	5.01	3.61	113.8	86.0	0.6
1968	35	34	12	14	11	3	197	75	80	168	20	225.3	3.00	1.229	6.71	3.00	103.6	96.8	2.2
1969	35	35	15	13	11	1	244	101	80	137	16	235.3	3.86	1.377	5.24	3.11	89.6	89.9	0.8
1970	41	40	16	15	13	5	230	111	92	149	32	267.0	3.74	1.206	5.02	3.96	110.7	95.6	1.7
1971	30	30	15	5	7	1	185	80	71	100	24	189.0	3.81	1.354	4.76	4.09	122.5	87.7	1.1
1973	1	1	0	1	0	0	6	2	2	3	1	2.3	7.71	3.429	11.57	8.15	227.1	46.5	-0.1
1974	5	5	2	3	2	0	39	19	13	16	3	30.0	5.70	1.733	4.80	4.10	118.7	60.7	-0.5
1975	9	2	0	2	0	0	30	21	13	14	5	28.0	6.75	1.536	4.50	5.49	153.2	53.0	-0.8

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

203

452

411

RBI

.1533

OBP

.1659

SLG

.1776

OPS

.3435

Pitching

G (P)

202

190

SHO

1,258

SO (P)

758

BB allowed

476

ERA

3.776

WHIP

1.3113

K/9

5.42

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	2B	RBI	TB
1971-06-09	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	1	2	3
1968-05-21	CLE @ ATH Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	3
1968-09-09	BOS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	3
1971-05-12	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	3
1970-06-15	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	1	2	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-05-31	LAA @ ATH Gameday	12.0	5	3	3	4	13	1
1968-05-10	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	2	11	1
1969-05-03	MIL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	3	10	0
1970-07-20	ATH @ BOS Gameday	7.1	6	2	1	1	10	1
1968-08-31	ATH @ LAA Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	9	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.