MLB / Players

Dan Gakeler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 6 in · 215 lb
BornMay 1, 1964 · Mount Holly, NJ, USA
MLB debutJune 9, 1991
Final gameOctober 5, 1991
Seasons1 (1991–1991)

Detroit Tigers 1991

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
-0.6
12

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
199131000000000000-0.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19913171420073473943573.75.741.5205.254.25101.872.7-0.6

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
31
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
31
GS
7
W
1
L
4
SV
2
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
74
SO (P)
43
BB allowed
39
ERA
5.742
WHIP
1.5204
K/9
5.25

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

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1991-08-18TOR @ DET Gameday3.2211150
1991-06-14DET @ SEA Gameday7.2211540
1991-07-14KC @ DET Gameday5.1877242
1991-08-11DET @ NYY Gameday4.0344240
1991-09-05ATH @ DET Gameday2.0100040

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.