MLB / Players

Dan Quisenberry

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 7, 1953 · Santa Monica, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 8, 1979

Final gameApril 23, 1990

Seasons12 (1979–1990)

Kansas City Royals 1979–1988; St. Louis Cardinals 1988–1989; San Francisco Giants 1990

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+

145.8

99.2

sWAR

25.3

95.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1979	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1980	75	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1981	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1982	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.7
1983	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.8
1984	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.3
1985	84	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.8
1986	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1987	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1988	53	2	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	138.7	56.2	.374	-0.5
1989	63	4	4	1	1	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	34.9	42.2	.232	1.7
1990	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.7	-100.0	.000	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	32	3	2	5	42	14	7	13	5	40.0	3.15	1.225	2.93	4.27	99.6	136.1	0.9
1980	75	12	7	33	129	44	27	37	5	128.3	3.09	1.216	2.59	3.34	81.9	132.4	2.7
1981	40	1	4	18	59	12	15	20	1	62.3	1.73	1.187	2.89	2.88	79.3	209.3	2.1
1982	72	9	7	35	126	39	12	46	12	136.7	2.57	1.010	3.03	3.42	83.6	159.4	3.7
1983	69	5	3	45	118	30	11	48	6	139.0	1.94	.928	3.11	2.93	72.0	209.7	4.8
1984	72	6	3	44	121	38	12	41	10	129.3	2.64	1.028	2.85	3.40	84.8	151.4	3.3
1985	84	8	9	37	142	34	16	54	8	129.0	2.37	1.225	3.77	3.11	75.2	174.0	3.8
1986	62	3	7	12	92	25	24	36	2	81.3	2.77	1.426	3.98	3.22	76.5	152.3	2.1
1987	47	4	1	8	58	15	10	17	3	49.0	2.76	1.388	3.12	3.65	80.7	164.2	1.4
1988	53	2	1	1	86	36	11	28	4	63.3	5.12	1.532	3.98	3.21	88.8	71.6	-0.5
1989	63	3	1	6	78	23	14	37	2	78.3	2.64	1.174	4.25	2.58	72.0	135.8	1.7
1990	5	0	1	0	13	10	3	2	1	6.7	13.50	2.400	2.70	5.51	149.6	27.3	-0.7

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

674

RBI

.1667

OBP

.2857

SLG

.1667

OPS

.4524

Pitching

G (P)

674

151st-most career G (P)

244

41st-most career SV

SHO

1,043

SO (P)

379

BB allowed

162

ERA

2.760

99th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1751

112th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.27

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	RBI	TB
1989-07-06	LAD @ STL Gameday	2	1	1	1
1985-10-19	STL @ KC Gameday	0	0	0	0
1985-10-20	STL @ KC Gameday	0	0	0	0
1985-10-23	KC @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1985-10-26	STL @ KC Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1984-09-25	LAA @ KC Gameday	4.0	2	0	0	2	4
1985-05-13	KC @ BAL Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	4
1980-08-09	KC @ TOR Gameday	5.0	6	1	1	3	3
1983-06-30	KC @ ATH Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	1	3
1983-08-16	DET @ KC Gameday	3.0	5	1	1	0	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.

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.