MLB / Players

Dale Gear

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb
BornFebruary 2, 1872 · Lone Elm, KS, USA
MLB debutAugust 15, 1896
Final gameSeptember 26, 1901
Seasons3 (1896–1901)

Cleveland Spiders 1896–1897; Washington Senators 1901

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified pitchers

G
24
12.1
GS
16
1.5
W
4
1.5
L
11
68.2
SV
1
66.7
CG
14
3
SHO
1
24.2
H
199
87.9
ER
73
80.3
BB
22
98.5
SO
35
3
HR
9
12.1
IP
163.0
7.6
ERA
4.03
19.7
WHIP
1.356
47
K/9
1.93
7.6
FIP
3.68
25.8
FIP-
99.5
39.4
ERA+
91.8
24.2
sWAR
0.4
9.1

of 67 qualified 1901 pitchers (min 138 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
0.5
58.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1896416155611031100.400.438.6001.038156.8171.8.4760.2
1897728243410023420.167.286.208.49448.131.4.260-0.1
19015820519917479202041120.236.251.302.55354.151.9.2570.4

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
18963202020351466123.05.481.7832.354.38100.579.60.2
1901241641111411997322359163.04.031.3561.933.6899.591.80.4

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

G
69
PA
249
AB
238
R
25
H
57
2B
11
3B
3
HR
0
RBI
25
BB
8
SO
16
SB
4
BA
.2395
OBP
.2672
SLG
.3109
OPS
.5781

Pitching

G (P)
27
GS
18
W
4
L
13
SV
1
CG
16
SHO
1
IP
186
SO (P)
41
BB allowed
28
ERA
4.210
WHIP
1.4086
K/9
1.98

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1901-07-02ATH @ MIN Gameday503200305
1901-07-01ATH @ MIN Gameday622200304
1901-06-27BOS @ MIN Gameday412010004
1901-07-12MIN @ BAL Gameday222010004
1901-07-17MIN @ DET Gameday313000113

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1901-05-02BAL @ MIN Gameday9.014119152
1901-05-18ATH @ MIN Gameday9.014117150
1901-06-15CLE @ MIN Gameday8.0854041
1901-07-12MIN @ BAL Gameday4.0633132
1901-05-24MIN @ CLE Gameday9.01055120

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.