Dan Plesac

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 205 lb

BornFebruary 4, 1962 · Gary, IN, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1986

Final gameSeptember 28, 2003

Seasons18 (1986–2003)

Milwaukee Brewers 1986–1992; Chicago Cubs 1993–1994; Pittsburgh Pirates 1995–1996; Toronto Blue Jays 1997–1998; Arizona Diamondbacks 1999; Toronto Blue Jays 1999; Arizona Diamondbacks 2000; Toronto Blue Jays 2001; Philadelphia Phillies 2002; Toronto Blue Jays 2002; Philadelphia Phillies 2003

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

ERA+

116.7

85.8

sWAR

17.8

92.5

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	H	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	51	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1987	57	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1988	50	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1989	52	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1990	66	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1991	45	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1992	44	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1993	57	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.7	-100.0	.000	0.1
1994	54	4	4	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.3	-100.0	.000	0.2
1995	58	4	4	1	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	24.0	31.5	.228	1.1
1996	73	5	5	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.5	-100.0	.000	0.8
1997	73	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
1998	78	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1999	64	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1
2000	62	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2001	62	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
2002	60	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
2003	58	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	51	0	10	7	14	81	30	29	75	5	91.0	2.97	1.209	7.42	2.81	65.5	144.8	2.3
1987	57	0	5	6	23	63	23	23	89	8	79.3	2.61	1.084	10.10	2.92	64.3	174.4	2.4
1988	50	0	1	2	30	46	14	12	52	2	52.3	2.41	1.108	8.94	2.02	50.7	165.5	1.5
1989	52	0	3	4	33	47	16	17	52	6	61.3	2.35	1.043	7.63	3.26	84.6	164.0	1.7
1990	66	0	3	7	24	67	34	31	65	5	69.0	4.43	1.420	8.48	3.34	85.7	88.0	0.3
1991	45	10	2	7	8	92	44	39	61	12	92.3	4.29	1.419	5.95	4.64	115.6	93.6	0.6
1992	44	4	5	4	1	64	26	35	54	5	79.0	2.96	1.253	6.15	3.69	95.3	130.7	1.6
1993	57	0	2	1	0	74	33	21	47	10	62.7	4.74	1.516	6.75	4.56	113.8	84.5	0.1
1994	54	0	2	3	1	61	28	13	53	9	54.7	4.61	1.354	8.73	4.04	96.4	90.8	0.2
1995	58	0	4	4	3	53	24	27	57	3	60.3	3.58	1.326	8.50	3.22	75.3	119.3	1.1
1996	73	0	6	5	11	67	32	24	76	4	70.3	4.09	1.294	9.73	2.70	62.2	105.8	0.8
1997	73	0	2	4	1	47	20	19	61	8	50.3	3.58	1.311	10.91	3.92	86.0	127.4	1.0
1998	78	0	4	3	4	41	21	16	55	4	50.0	3.78	1.140	9.90	3.08	66.5	122.6	0.9
1999	64	0	2	4	1	50	29	17	53	7	44.3	5.89	1.511	10.76	3.95	83.0	80.7	-0.1
2000	62	0	5	1	0	34	14	26	45	4	40.0	3.15	1.500	10.13	4.06	86.2	149.3	1.0
2001	62	0	4	5	1	34	18	24	68	4	45.3	3.57	1.279	13.50	2.90	63.8	127.2	0.9
2002	60	0	3	3	1	27	17	18	41	6	36.3	4.21	1.239	10.16	4.32	104.9	99.5	0.3
2003	58	0	2	1	2	29	10	11	37	3	33.3	2.70	1.200	9.99	3.01	68.8	161.8	1.0

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

1,064

RBI

.0667

OBP

.0667

SLG

.0667

OPS

.1334

Pitching

G (P)

1,064

7th-most career G (P)

158

83rd-most career SV

SHO

1,072

SO (P)

1,041

BB allowed

402

ERA

3.635

WHIP

1.2864

491st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.74

47th-highest career K/9

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	H	TB
1995-08-12	PIT @ LAD Gameday	1	1	1
1993-04-10	CHC @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0
1993-04-13	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0
1993-04-18	PHI @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0
1993-04-21	HOU @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1992-04-24	MIL @ CLE Gameday	5.2	2	0	0	2	7	0
1992-05-02	TOR @ MIL Gameday	6.0	7	4	4	1	6	0
1991-10-05	MIL @ BOS Gameday	4.0	8	4	4	4	6	0
1991-09-14	DET @ MIL Gameday	8.0	6	3	3	1	5	1
1991-08-15	TOR @ MIL Gameday	6.0	5	3	3	5	5	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

3× 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.