MLB / Players

Danny Cox

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 235 lb

BornSeptember 21, 1959 · Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

MLB debutAugust 6, 1983

Final gameSeptember 18, 1995

Seasons11 (1983–1995)

St. Louis Cardinals 1983–1988; Philadelphia Phillies 1991–1992; Pittsburgh Pirates 1992; Toronto Blue Jays 1993–1995

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified pitchers

11.7

29.9

28.6

6.5

SHO

224

29.9

71.4

50.6

101

15.6

79.2

199.3

ERA

3.88

59.7

WHIP

1.480

K/9

4.56

15.6

FIP

4.08

59.7

FIP-

99.0

41.6

ERA+

106.0

45.5

sWAR

2.3

42.9

of 78 qualified 1987 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.3

sWAR

13.6

90.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1983	12	30	27	1	2	0	0	0	0	12	.074	.074	.074	.148	-79.9	-58.6	.069	1.0
1984	31	59	53	4	7	0	0	1	5	22	.132	.207	.132	.339	-1.4	-1.2	.178	0.5
1985	35	93	79	3	12	1	0	6	4	24	.152	.200	.165	.365	-1.0	4.4	.180	4.4
1986	32	83	65	2	5	2	0	2	2	32	.077	.104	.108	.212	-54.7	-40.6	.103	3.8
1987	32	74	69	3	8	0	1	1	0	25	.116	.129	.145	.273	-41.5	-27.7	.126	2.3
1988	13	28	23	0	1	0	0	0	0	13	.043	.043	.043	.087	-99.5	-74.9	.040	0.1
1991	23	35	29	4	3	0	0	1	2	16	.103	.161	.103	.265	-29.5	-23.5	.138	-0.2
1992	25	14	14	0	1	0	0	1	0	8	.071	.071	.071	.143	-87.6	-59.4	.066	-0.3
1993	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1994	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1995	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1983	12	12	3	6	0	0	0	92	30	23	36	6	83.0	3.25	1.386	3.90	3.58	98.6	111.5	1.0
1984	29	27	9	11	0	1	1	171	70	54	70	9	156.3	4.03	1.439	4.03	3.82	109.0	86.9	0.5
1985	35	35	18	9	0	10	4	226	77	64	131	19	241.0	2.88	1.203	4.89	3.39	95.9	122.9	4.4
1986	32	32	12	13	0	8	0	189	71	60	108	14	220.0	2.90	1.132	4.42	3.44	94.1	125.8	3.8
1987	31	31	11	9	0	2	0	224	86	71	101	17	199.3	3.88	1.480	4.56	4.08	99.0	106.0	2.3
1988	13	13	3	8	0	0	0	89	38	25	47	6	86.0	3.98	1.326	4.92	3.43	99.1	87.0	0.1
1991	23	17	4	6	0	0	0	98	52	39	46	14	102.3	4.57	1.339	4.05	4.84	131.8	80.4	-0.2
1992	25	7	5	3	3	0	0	66	32	27	48	5	62.7	4.60	1.484	6.89	3.57	101.6	76.5	-0.3
1993	44	0	7	6	2	0	0	73	29	29	84	8	83.7	3.12	1.219	9.04	3.28	75.5	139.0	2.0
1994	10	0	1	1	3	0	0	7	3	7	14	0	18.7	1.45	.750	6.75	2.98	61.8	333.4	0.8
1995	24	0	1	3	0	0	0	57	37	33	38	4	45.0	7.40	2.000	7.60	4.87	103.6	63.6	-0.8

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

281

416

359

RBI

152

.1086

OBP

.1440

SLG

.1226

OPS

.2666

Pitching

G (P)

278

174

SHO

1,298

SO (P)

723

BB allowed

432

ERA

3.640

WHIP

1.3282

K/9

5.01

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	RBI	TB
1987-07-04	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	3
1985-06-10	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2	2
1984-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
1987-04-29	SD @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1985-05-11	STL @ SF Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1983-08-06	PHI @ STL Gameday	10.0	7	0	0	2	8	0
1986-07-28	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	0	8	0
1985-09-20	WSH @ STL Gameday	7.0	7	3	3	3	8	1
1985-10-26	STL @ KC Gameday	7.0	7	0	0	1	8	0
1987-04-09	STL @ CHC Gameday	6.2	1	1	1	6	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.