Dan Larson
Houston Astros 1976–1977; Philadelphia Phillies 1978–1981; Chicago Cubs 1982
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 14 | 34 | 31 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .290 | .313 | .387 | .700 | 105.4 | 106.0 | .326 | 1.5 |
| 1977 | 33 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .241 | .214 | .456 | 26.5 | 28.9 | .216 | -1.5 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1979 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .214 | .231 | .445 | 17.0 | 22.5 | .215 | 0.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .273 | .111 | .384 | 23.5 | 11.4 | .223 | 0.1 |
| 1982 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .273 | .273 | .545 | 46.0 | 51.5 | .254 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 81 | 31 | 28 | 42 | 3 | 92.3 | 3.02 | 1.181 | 4.09 | 3.10 | 95.4 | 107.6 | 1.5 |
| 1977 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 108 | 63 | 45 | 44 | 13 | 97.7 | 5.81 | 1.567 | 4.05 | 5.01 | 138.5 | 62.3 | -1.5 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 9.00 | 2.000 | 18.00 | 14.62 | 409.1 | 39.7 | -0.1 |
| 1979 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 19.0 | 4.26 | 1.368 | 4.26 | 4.01 | 105.1 | 89.5 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 16 | 24 | 17 | 4 | 45.7 | 3.15 | 1.533 | 3.35 | 4.72 | 126.2 | 118.5 | 0.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 28.0 | 4.18 | 1.500 | 4.82 | 5.06 | 141.5 | 85.6 | 0.1 |
| 1982 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 25 | 18 | 22 | 4 | 39.7 | 5.67 | 1.739 | 4.99 | 4.46 | 120.2 | 65.4 | -0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-08-20 | HOU @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1976-08-30 | PHI @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1976-08-09 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1977-07-05 | HOU @ SD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1977-08-02 | PIT @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-07-18 | HOU @ WSH Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1982-04-11 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1976-07-24 | SF @ HOU Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977-08-02 | PIT @ HOU Gameday | 10.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1981-09-08 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
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.