MLB / Players

Dan Gladden

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 7, 1957 · San Jose, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1983

Final gameOctober 3, 1993

Seasons11 (1983–1993)

San Francisco Giants 1983–1986; Minnesota Twins 1987–1991; Detroit Tigers 1992–1993

Percentile snapshot

1991 season — qualified batters

126

2.5

511

2.5

461

4.9

25.4

114

6.6

0.8

19.7

RBI

19.7

17.2

78.7

64.8

19.7

.247

9.8

OBP

.306

13.1

SLG

.356

13.1

OPS

.662

8.2

wRC+

80.2

8.2

OPS+

80.4

5.7

wOBA

.304

sWAR

-0.1

2.5

of 123 qualified 1991 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.0

31.7

OPS+

94.8

31.1

sWAR

10.5

87.5

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
1983	18	72	63	6	14	2	0	1	9	5	11	4	3	.222	.275	.302	.577	61.0	61.8	.272	-0.1
1984	86	384	342	71	120	17	2	4	31	33	37	31	16	.351	.410	.447	.857	150.3	143.8	.399	3.8
1985	142	561	502	64	122	15	8	7	41	40	78	32	15	.243	.307	.347	.653	88.1	86.2	.306	1.2
1986	102	402	351	55	97	16	1	4	29	39	59	27	10	.276	.357	.362	.719	108.6	104.0	.338	1.9
1987	121	482	438	69	109	21	2	8	38	38	72	25	9	.249	.312	.361	.673	76.2	76.1	.301	-0.3
1988	141	633	576	91	155	32	6	11	62	46	74	28	8	.269	.325	.403	.728	101.0	101.4	.329	1.6
1989	121	501	461	69	136	23	3	8	46	23	53	23	7	.295	.331	.410	.741	101.1	102.9	.335	1.1
1990	136	571	534	64	147	27	6	5	40	26	67	25	9	.275	.314	.376	.690	86.4	88.2	.315	0.3
1991	126	511	461	65	114	14	9	6	52	36	60	15	9	.247	.306	.356	.662	80.2	80.4	.304	-0.1
1992	113	459	417	57	106	20	1	7	42	30	64	4	2	.254	.304	.357	.661	83.9	84.5	.306	0.2
1993	91	386	356	52	95	16	2	13	56	21	50	8	5	.267	.312	.433	.744	97.9	98.3	.334	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1988	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	.000	0.00	2.82	69.7	—	1.6
1989	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1.0	9.00	3.000	0.00	5.85	142.5	45.6	1.1

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

1,197

4,962

4,501

663

1,215

203

RBI

446

337

625

222

308th-most career SB

.2699

OBP

.3244

SLG

.3821

OPS

.7065

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

0.00

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	HR	RBI	TB
1988-04-08	TOR @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	4	11
1985-09-11	SF @ HOU Gameday	6	4	4	1	1	1	8
1993-06-17	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	4	8
1988-05-31	TEX @ MIN Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	2	7
1993-08-11	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	5	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1988-06-27	MIN @ LAA Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1989-05-07	MIN @ CLE Gameday	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	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.