Dale Murray

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornFebruary 2, 1950 · Cuero, TX, USA

MLB debutJuly 7, 1974

Final gameMay 13, 1985

Seasons12 (1974–1985)

Montreal Expos 1974–1976; Cincinnati Reds 1977–1978; New York Mets 1978; Montreal Expos 1979; New York Mets 1979; Montreal Expos 1980; Toronto Blue Jays 1981–1982; New York Yankees 1983–1985; Texas Rangers 1985

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.2

84.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	32	11	10	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.091	.000	.091	-84.5	-73.4	.069	2.9
1975	63	16	14	1	3	1	2	5	.214	.313	.214	.527	52.1	46.0	.272	0.9
1976	81	11	8	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.3	-100.0	.000	1.5
1977	61	14	12	1	2	0	0	5	.167	.167	.167	.333	-24.3	-10.4	.153	-0.2
1978	68	13	10	1	0	0	1	6	.000	.091	.000	.091	-79.8	-72.1	.069	0.7
1979	67	11	8	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.111	.000	.111	-68.5	-66.4	.084	-0.2
1980	16	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.8	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1981	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1982	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1983	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1984	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1985	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1974	32	0	1	1	10	46	8	23	31	1	69.7	1.03	.990	4.00	2.87	75.7	367.4	2.9
1975	63	0	15	8	9	134	49	39	43	0	111.3	3.96	1.554	3.48	2.98	78.8	95.4	0.9
1976	81	0	4	9	13	117	41	37	35	1	113.3	3.26	1.359	2.78	3.12	87.1	110.1	1.5
1977	61	1	7	2	4	125	56	46	42	13	102.0	4.94	1.676	3.71	4.98	125.7	80.1	-0.2
1978	68	0	9	6	7	119	50	53	62	5	119.0	3.78	1.445	4.69	3.54	101.0	92.7	0.7
1979	67	0	5	10	5	119	56	55	41	7	110.3	4.57	1.577	3.34	4.27	116.8	80.0	-0.2
1980	16	0	0	1	0	39	20	12	16	3	29.3	6.14	1.739	4.91	4.21	117.5	58.4	-0.7
1981	11	0	1	0	0	12	2	5	12	0	15.3	1.17	1.109	7.04	1.95	51.0	326.0	0.6
1982	56	0	8	7	11	115	39	32	60	3	111.0	3.16	1.324	4.86	2.91	66.5	138.1	2.6
1983	40	0	2	4	1	113	47	22	45	5	94.3	4.48	1.431	4.29	3.29	83.6	87.8	0.3
1984	19	0	1	2	0	30	13	5	13	2	23.7	4.94	1.479	4.94	3.63	94.6	77.7	-0.1
1985	4	0	0	0	0	7	5	0	0	0	3.0	15.00	2.333	0.00	2.74	67.1	27.3	-0.3

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

518

RBI

.0769

OBP

.1429

SLG

.0769

OPS

.2198

Pitching

G (P)

518

402nd-most career G (P)

303rd-most career SV

SHO

902

SO (P)

400

BB allowed

329

ERA

3.850

WHIP

1.4463

K/9

3.99

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	RBI	TB
1975-09-01	WSH @ PHI Gameday	1	0	1	1	1
1975-07-13	WSH @ ATL Gameday	1	0	1	0	1
1975-08-22	WSH @ LAD Gameday	1	0	1	0	1
1977-08-05	PIT @ CIN Gameday	1	1	1	0	1
1977-08-14	CIN @ SF Gameday	1	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1982-06-21	TOR @ SEA Gameday	5.0	2	0	0	0	6
1982-07-06	TOR @ TEX Gameday	3.1	1	0	0	0	6
1975-08-14	SF @ WSH Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	1	5
1983-08-09	TOR @ NYY Gameday	6.1	9	3	2	0	4
1975-09-26	WSH @ CHC Gameday	5.0	3	0	0	0	4

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.