Dan Driessen

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 187 lb

BornJuly 29, 1951 · Hilton Head Island, SC, USA

MLB debutJune 9, 1973

Final gameOctober 3, 1987

Seasons15 (1973–1987)

Cincinnati Reds 1973–1984; Montreal Expos 1984–1985; San Francisco Giants 1985; Houston Astros 1986; San Francisco Giants 1986; St. Louis Cardinals 1987

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

145

35.3

552

23.5

493

26.5

7.4

120

15.4

40.4

30.1

RBI

16.2

44.1

80.9

18.4

73.5

.243

15.4

OBP

.314

26.5

SLG

.351

16.9

OPS

.665

16.2

wRC+

86.6

16.9

OPS+

90.4

23.5

wOBA

.302

11.8

sWAR

-0.3

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.5

70.5

OPS+

113.3

68.8

sWAR

19.9

93.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1973	102	394	366	49	110	15	2	4	47	24	37	8	3	.301	.346	.385	.731	109.2	108.5	.337	1.6
1974	150	523	470	63	132	23	6	7	56	48	62	10	5	.281	.347	.400	.747	112.9	111.8	.350	2.3
1975	88	249	210	38	59	8	1	7	38	35	30	10	3	.281	.386	.429	.814	132.0	126.1	.383	1.3
1976	98	268	219	32	54	11	1	7	44	43	32	14	1	.247	.362	.402	.764	120.3	116.2	.360	1.1
1977	151	608	536	75	161	31	4	17	91	64	85	31	13	.300	.375	.468	.843	125.8	124.2	.377	2.7
1978	153	612	524	68	131	23	3	16	70	75	79	28	9	.250	.345	.397	.742	110.5	107.9	.345	1.5
1979	150	589	515	72	129	24	3	18	75	62	77	11	5	.250	.330	.414	.744	100.0	102.2	.335	0.7
1980	154	632	524	81	139	36	1	14	74	93	68	19	6	.265	.377	.418	.795	123.7	122.8	.363	2.5
1981	82	280	233	35	55	14	0	7	33	40	31	2	4	.236	.349	.386	.735	112.0	107.7	.347	0.6
1982	149	606	516	64	139	25	1	17	57	82	62	11	6	.269	.368	.421	.789	122.6	118.9	.364	2.4
1983	122	467	386	57	107	17	1	12	57	75	51	6	4	.277	.390	.420	.809	124.6	121.2	.373	1.9
1984	132	447	387	47	104	24	0	16	60	54	40	2	2	.269	.354	.455	.809	125.3	125.8	.366	1.8
1985	145	552	493	53	120	26	0	9	47	50	51	2	2	.243	.314	.351	.665	86.6	90.4	.302	-0.3
1986	32	49	40	7	10	3	0	1	3	9	6	0	0	.250	.388	.400	.788	122.4	122.4	.359	0.1
1987	24	68	60	5	14	2	0	1	11	7	8	0	0	.233	.309	.317	.625	64.1	66.1	.285	-0.3

Career totals

1,732

477th-most career G

6,344

5,479

746

1,464

282

153

RBI

763

761

308th-most career BB

719

154

.2672

OBP

.3558

SLG

.4108

OPS

.7666

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1977-04-26	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1984-07-07	CIN @ NYM Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1973-08-03	HOU @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1979-05-04	HOU @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	2	1	8
1980-07-10	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	2	1	8

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.