Dan Petry

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 13, 1958 · Palo Alto, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 8, 1979

Final gameOctober 5, 1991

Seasons13 (1979–1991)

Detroit Tigers 1979–1987; California Angels 1988–1989; Detroit Tigers 1990; Atlanta Braves 1991; Boston Red Sox 1991; Detroit Tigers 1991

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified pitchers

37.2

55.1

29.5

65.4

SHO

190

74.4

51.3

24.4

109

33.3

24.4

238.7

70.5

ERA

3.36

66.7

WHIP

1.135

82.1

K/9

4.11

19.2

FIP

4.19

14.1

FIP-

102.7

28.2

ERA+

121.6

75.6

sWAR

4.3

75.6

of 79 qualified 1985 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.9

46.1

sWAR

22.5

94.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1979	15	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1980	27	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
1981	23	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1982	35	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.7
1983	38	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1984	35	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.2
1985	34	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.3
1986	20	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1987	30	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6
1988	22	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1989	19	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1990	32	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1991	40	5	5	1	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-1.9	10.7	.185	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	15	15	6	5	0	2	0	90	43	33	43	11	98.0	3.95	1.255	3.95	4.48	103.7	109.4	1.4
1980	27	25	10	9	0	4	3	156	72	83	88	9	164.7	3.94	1.451	4.81	3.93	96.2	103.8	1.9
1981	23	22	10	9	0	7	2	115	47	57	79	10	141.0	3.00	1.220	5.04	3.58	95.5	124.9	2.7
1982	35	35	15	9	0	8	1	220	88	100	132	15	246.0	3.22	1.301	4.83	3.68	91.2	125.3	4.7
1983	38	38	19	11	0	9	2	256	116	99	122	37	266.3	3.92	1.333	4.12	4.90	124.0	100.8	2.7
1984	35	35	18	8	0	7	2	231	84	66	144	21	233.3	3.24	1.273	5.55	3.57	90.8	121.3	4.2
1985	34	34	15	13	0	8	0	190	89	81	109	24	238.7	3.36	1.135	4.11	4.19	102.7	121.6	4.3
1986	20	20	5	10	0	2	0	122	60	53	56	15	116.0	4.66	1.509	4.34	5.01	121.2	88.8	0.5
1987	30	21	9	7	0	0	0	148	84	76	93	22	134.7	5.61	1.663	6.22	5.53	129.0	76.4	-0.6
1988	22	22	3	9	0	4	1	139	68	59	64	18	139.7	4.38	1.418	4.12	4.98	128.2	88.6	0.6
1989	19	4	3	2	0	0	0	53	31	23	21	8	51.0	5.47	1.490	3.71	5.48	143.2	69.9	-0.5
1990	32	23	10	9	0	1	0	148	74	77	73	14	149.7	4.45	1.503	4.39	4.61	116.0	89.4	0.7
1991	40	6	2	3	1	0	0	116	56	45	39	14	101.3	4.97	1.589	3.46	5.30	128.7	82.8	0.0

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

370

RBI

.2000

OBP

.2000

SLG

.2000

OPS

.4000

Pitching

G (P)

370

300

354th-most career GS

125

407th-most career W

104

SHO

2,080

410th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,063

BB allowed

852

202nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.946

WHIP

1.3632

K/9

4.60

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	TB
1991-07-27	ATL @ CHC Gameday	1	1	1	1
1979-08-20	DET @ ATH Gameday	0	0	0	0
1982-04-23	DET @ NYY Gameday	0	0	0	0
1990-09-21	DET @ ATH Gameday	0	0	0	0
1991-06-28	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1984-08-19	SEA @ DET Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	3	11	0
1984-06-30	MIN @ DET Gameday	8.1	7	3	3	3	10	1
1982-05-08	CWS @ DET Gameday	7.0	7	4	3	2	10	1
1984-09-22	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	9	0
1982-07-25	TEX @ DET Gameday	8.0	7	2	2	0	9	1

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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.