Danny Jackson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1962 · San Antonio, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1983

Final gameAugust 7, 1997

Seasons15 (1983–1997)

Kansas City Royals 1983–1987; Cincinnati Reds 1988–1990; Chicago Cubs 1991–1992; Pittsburgh Pirates 1992; Philadelphia Phillies 1993–1994; St. Louis Cardinals 1995–1996; San Diego Padres 1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1997

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified pitchers

72.7

65.9

72.7

SHO

61.4

183

4.5

53.4

60.2

129

86.4

72.7

179.3

96.6

ERA

3.26

85.2

WHIP

1.277

70.5

K/9

6.47

FIP

3.37

89.8

FIP-

78.8

87.5

ERA+

131.1

78.4

sWAR

3.9

87.5

of 89 qualified 1994 pitchers (min 115 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.7

37.3

sWAR

19.2

93.3

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1983	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1984	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1985	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.7
1986	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.0
1987	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.4
1988	35	101	90	11	13	3	0	6	2	46	0	.144	.161	.178	.339	-18.1	-3.9	.159	5.3
1989	21	40	36	4	8	1	0	4	0	22	0	.222	.222	.250	.472	24.7	33.8	.218	-1.7
1990	23	41	37	1	2	0	1	0	0	21	0	.054	.054	.108	.162	-80.6	-57.1	.071	1.4
1991	17	25	23	1	2	0	0	1	0	13	0	.087	.087	.087	.174	-74.1	-51.9	.080	-1.9
1992	34	70	60	2	5	0	0	2	1	31	1	.083	.098	.083	.182	-72.8	-48.2	.088	0.9
1993	32	81	65	3	5	2	0	2	3	37	0	.077	.130	.108	.238	-41.3	-34.8	.120	2.4
1994	26	68	57	3	9	2	1	7	2	24	0	.158	.186	.228	.415	-2.2	7.0	.189	3.9
1995	19	36	31	1	5	2	0	2	1	16	0	.161	.188	.226	.413	1.0	9.0	.189	-0.9
1996	13	10	9	1	3	2	0	4	0	1	0	.333	.333	.556	.889	131.8	131.4	.386	0.4
1997	17	22	20	1	2	0	0	0	1	8	1	.100	.143	.100	.243	-41.6	-33.6	.122	-2.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1983	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	26	11	6	9	1	19.0	5.21	1.684	4.26	3.51	86.1	78.2	-0.1
1984	15	11	2	6	0	1	0	84	36	35	40	4	76.0	4.26	1.566	4.74	3.96	98.9	93.9	0.5
1985	32	32	14	12	0	4	3	209	79	76	114	7	208.0	3.42	1.370	4.93	3.27	79.1	120.8	3.7
1986	32	27	11	12	1	4	1	177	66	79	115	13	185.7	3.20	1.379	5.57	3.81	90.3	131.7	4.0
1987	36	34	9	18	0	11	2	219	100	109	152	11	224.0	4.02	1.464	6.11	3.71	82.0	112.6	3.4
1988	35	35	23	8	0	15	6	206	79	71	161	13	260.7	2.73	1.063	5.56	2.96	83.0	130.8	5.3
1989	20	20	6	11	0	1	0	122	72	57	70	10	115.7	5.60	1.548	5.45	4.08	113.9	63.9	-1.7
1990	22	21	6	6	0	0	0	119	47	40	76	11	117.3	3.61	1.355	5.83	3.81	97.0	108.9	1.4
1991	17	14	1	5	0	0	0	89	53	48	31	8	70.7	6.75	1.939	3.95	5.47	141.6	57.2	-1.9
1992	34	34	8	13	0	0	0	211	86	77	97	6	201.3	3.84	1.430	4.34	3.41	95.4	92.6	0.9
1993	32	32	12	11	0	2	1	214	88	80	120	12	210.3	3.77	1.398	5.13	3.77	94.2	106.4	2.4
1994	25	25	14	6	0	4	1	183	65	46	129	13	179.3	3.26	1.277	6.47	3.37	78.8	131.1	3.9
1995	19	19	2	12	0	2	1	120	66	48	52	10	100.7	5.90	1.669	4.65	4.93	118.4	70.6	-0.9
1996	13	4	1	1	0	0	0	33	18	16	27	3	36.3	4.46	1.349	6.69	4.08	97.9	93.6	0.4
1997	17	13	2	9	0	0	0	98	57	28	32	11	67.7	7.58	1.862	4.26	5.70	142.2	53.0	-2.1

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

356

494

428

RBI

219

.1262

OBP

.1477

SLG

.1636

OPS

.3113

Pitching

G (P)

353

324

284th-most career GS

112

131

269th-most career L

SHO

396th-most career SHO

2,073

415th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,225

377th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

816

239th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.008

WHIP

1.4117

K/9

5.32

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
1988-09-04	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	1	5
1994-06-18	PHI @ WSH Gameday	3	0	2	1	1	5	5
1988-06-12	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	3	3
1989-07-06	CIN @ NYM Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	3
1994-05-23	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-05-26	KC @ CWS Gameday	8.1	8	4	4	1	12	2
1985-07-31	KC @ DET Gameday	8.1	8	2	1	2	10	0
1988-04-22	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	9	0
1994-05-02	SD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	0	9	0
1994-05-13	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	1	1	2	9	0

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

2× 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.