Dan Schatzeder

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 1, 1954 · Elmhurst, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1977

Final gameMay 25, 1991

Seasons15 (1977–1991)

Montreal Expos 1977–1979; Detroit Tigers 1980–1981; Montreal Expos 1982; San Francisco Giants 1982; Montreal Expos 1983–1986; Philadelphia Phillies 1986; Minnesota Twins 1987; Philadelphia Phillies 1987; Cleveland Indians 1988; Minnesota Twins 1988; Houston Astros 1989–1990; New York Mets 1990; Kansas City Royals 1991

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified pitchers

14.8

10.2

22.7

SHO

51.1

178

87.5

56.8

64.8

19.3

192.7

28.4

ERA

4.02

WHIP

1.225

76.1

K/9

4.39

40.9

FIP

4.28

14.8

FIP-

104.9

28.4

ERA+

101.7

47.7

sWAR

2.0

36.4

of 89 qualified 1980 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.5

36.3

sWAR

15.1

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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1977	6	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	80.6	81.3	.306	0.6
1978	32	49	45	3	10	2	0	1	7	2	7	1	.222	.255	.333	.589	62.2	65.3	.273	2.6
1979	32	59	51	6	11	1	0	1	8	6	13	0	.216	.293	.294	.587	64.8	62.6	.280	3.6
1980	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1981	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.3
1982	39	14	13	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	6	0	.231	.286	.231	.516	48.3	49.4	.254	-0.7
1983	58	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1.5	12.2	.186	1.3
1984	37	42	35	2	11	2	1	0	3	2	10	0	.314	.351	.429	.780	126.7	123.7	.361	3.1
1985	24	33	31	4	6	1	0	2	5	1	10	0	.194	.219	.419	.638	74.1	79.3	.284	0.9
1986	58	31	26	5	10	2	1	1	2	5	10	0	.385	.484	.654	1.138	221.3	214.9	.508	2.1
1987	56	13	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	.167	.231	.167	.397	3.5	6.2	.198	0.0
1988	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1989	36	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.5	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1990	51	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	34.1	40.1	.231	2.0
1991	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1977	6	3	2	1	0	1	1	16	6	13	14	0	21.7	2.49	1.338	5.82	3.24	83.8	155.2	0.6
1978	29	18	7	7	0	2	0	108	49	68	69	10	143.7	3.07	1.225	4.32	4.03	114.3	114.8	2.6
1979	32	21	10	5	1	3	0	136	51	59	106	17	162.0	2.83	1.204	5.89	3.86	104.8	130.0	3.6
1980	32	26	11	13	0	9	2	178	86	58	94	23	192.7	4.02	1.225	4.39	4.28	104.9	101.7	2.0
1981	17	14	6	8	0	1	0	74	48	29	20	13	71.3	6.06	1.444	2.52	5.65	150.9	61.8	-1.3
1982	39	4	1	6	0	0	0	84	41	24	33	4	69.3	5.32	1.558	4.28	3.67	101.5	68.0	-0.7
1983	58	2	5	2	2	0	0	88	31	25	48	3	87.0	3.21	1.299	4.97	3.05	84.9	112.1	1.3
1984	36	14	7	7	1	1	1	112	41	36	89	13	136.0	2.71	1.088	5.89	3.56	103.5	126.9	3.1
1985	24	15	3	5	0	1	0	101	44	31	64	13	104.3	3.80	1.265	5.52	3.90	113.8	90.3	0.9
1986	55	1	6	5	2	0	0	81	32	35	47	9	88.3	3.26	1.313	4.79	4.19	111.8	114.9	2.1
1987	56	1	6	2	0	0	0	104	48	32	58	12	81.3	5.31	1.672	6.42	4.58	103.3	83.1	0.0
1988	25	0	0	3	3	0	0	34	19	7	17	7	26.3	6.49	1.557	5.81	6.01	147.5	62.7	-0.5
1989	36	0	4	1	1	0	0	64	28	28	46	2	56.7	4.45	1.624	7.31	3.14	92.4	76.4	-0.3
1990	51	2	1	3	0	0	0	66	17	23	39	2	69.7	2.20	1.278	5.04	3.05	82.1	169.3	2.0
1991	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	7	7	4	0	6.7	9.45	2.700	5.40	4.86	118.2	43.5	-0.3

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

511

271

242

RBI

.2397

OBP

.2912

SLG

.3512

OPS

.6424

Pitching

G (P)

504

435th-most career G (P)

121

SHO

1,317

SO (P)

748

BB allowed

475

ERA

3.745

WHIP

1.3151

K/9

5.11

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
1984-08-15	WSH @ SF Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1978-08-25	WSH @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	5
1985-09-20	WSH @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	5
1986-04-17	CHC @ WSH Gameday	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
1985-05-20	LAD @ WSH Gameday	3	3	1	0	0	1	2	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1984-08-09	CHC @ WSH Gameday	10.0	4	0	0	1	11	0
1985-06-10	CHC @ WSH Gameday	7.1	2	2	2	2	10	1
1979-09-20	WSH @ NYM Gameday	6.2	6	2	2	2	9	0
1979-05-17	WSH @ STL Gameday	7.0	6	2	2	2	8	0
1979-05-12	WSH @ LAD Gameday	6.0	5	1	1	0	8	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.