Dan Meyer
Detroit Tigers 1974–1976; Seattle Mariners 1977–1981; Oakland Athletics 1982–1985
Percentile snapshot
1980 season — qualified batters
of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 505 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 13 | 52 | 50 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .231 | .440 | .671 | 74.6 | 86.6 | .292 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 122 | 503 | 470 | 56 | 111 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 47 | 26 | 25 | 8 | 3 | .236 | .277 | .336 | .614 | 65.6 | 69.3 | .285 | -1.1 |
| 1976 | 105 | 315 | 294 | 37 | 74 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 17 | 22 | 10 | 0 | .252 | .292 | .327 | .618 | 76.3 | 77.9 | .293 | -0.2 |
| 1977 | 159 | 639 | 582 | 75 | 159 | 24 | 4 | 22 | 90 | 43 | 51 | 11 | 8 | .273 | .320 | .442 | .762 | 103.2 | 105.3 | .336 | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 123 | 477 | 444 | 38 | 101 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 56 | 24 | 39 | 7 | 3 | .227 | .264 | .327 | .591 | 56.5 | 65.3 | .265 | -1.9 |
| 1979 | 144 | 570 | 525 | 72 | 146 | 21 | 7 | 20 | 74 | 29 | 35 | 11 | 7 | .278 | .317 | .459 | .776 | 98.9 | 104.7 | .337 | 1.8 |
| 1980 | 146 | 570 | 531 | 56 | 146 | 25 | 6 | 11 | 71 | 31 | 42 | 8 | 4 | .275 | .314 | .407 | .721 | 93.2 | 95.1 | .324 | 0.8 |
| 1981 | 83 | 266 | 252 | 26 | 66 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 3 | .262 | .291 | .345 | .636 | 75.8 | 79.7 | .292 | 0.1 |
| 1982 | 120 | 409 | 383 | 28 | 92 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 59 | 18 | 33 | 1 | 1 | .240 | .271 | .363 | .634 | 70.1 | 75.7 | .280 | -1.1 |
| 1983 | 69 | 191 | 169 | 15 | 32 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .268 | .260 | .529 | 48.9 | 50.0 | .246 | -1.1 |
| 1984 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .318 | .318 | .545 | .864 | 140.3 | 140.6 | .378 | 0.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .077 | .000 | .077 | -77.1 | -75.8 | .057 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-06-25 | SEA @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1980-08-24 | BOS @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1974-09-20 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1977-07-09 | SEA @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1982-04-13 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 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.