MLB / Players

Darrell Porter

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 193 lb

BornJanuary 17, 1952 · Joplin, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1971

Final gameOctober 4, 1987

Seasons17 (1971–1987)

Milwaukee Brewers 1971–1976; Kansas City Royals 1977–1980; St. Louis Cardinals 1981–1985; Texas Rangers 1986–1987

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified batters

145

36.2

519

6.2

443

19.2

116

6.9

41.5

29.2

53.1

RBI

43.8

24.6

10.8

64.6

.262

32.3

OBP

.363

75.4

SLG

.431

53.8

OPS

.794

63.8

wRC+

120.6

66.9

OPS+

120.3

68.5

wOBA

.361

68.5

sWAR

4.2

81.5

of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.2

70.1

OPS+

112.9

68.4

sWAR

45.0

98.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1971	22	80	70	4	15	2	0	2	9	9	20	2	2	.214	.300	.329	.629	81.3	79.6	.300	0.3
1972	18	63	56	2	7	1	0	1	2	5	21	0	0	.125	.210	.196	.406	17.5	22.6	.206	-0.2
1973	117	416	350	50	89	19	2	16	67	57	85	5	2	.254	.363	.457	.820	132.6	132.1	.373	3.6
1974	131	490	432	59	104	15	4	12	56	50	88	8	7	.241	.326	.377	.703	102.2	102.5	.326	2.8
1975	130	511	409	66	95	12	5	18	60	89	77	2	5	.232	.371	.418	.789	123.5	122.3	.364	4.3
1976	119	449	389	43	81	14	1	5	32	51	61	2	0	.208	.298	.288	.586	75.0	73.6	.284	1.3
1977	130	486	425	61	117	21	3	16	60	53	70	1	0	.275	.353	.452	.804	117.8	118.6	.356	3.8
1978	150	602	520	77	138	27	6	18	78	75	75	0	5	.265	.358	.444	.802	121.5	123.3	.359	4.9
1979	157	679	533	101	155	23	10	20	112	121	65	3	4	.291	.421	.484	.905	145.5	142.8	.406	7.1
1980	118	495	418	51	104	14	2	7	51	69	50	1	1	.249	.354	.342	.696	95.4	91.4	.326	1.7
1981	61	217	174	22	39	10	2	6	31	39	32	1	2	.224	.364	.408	.772	117.0	117.2	.355	1.6
1982	120	445	373	46	86	18	5	12	48	66	66	1	1	.231	.347	.402	.749	112.5	109.2	.348	3.2
1983	145	519	443	57	116	24	3	15	66	68	94	1	3	.262	.363	.431	.794	120.6	120.3	.361	4.2
1984	127	493	422	56	98	16	3	11	68	60	79	5	3	.232	.331	.363	.693	95.8	98.0	.319	2.5
1985	84	284	240	30	53	12	2	10	36	41	48	6	1	.221	.335	.413	.747	109.7	110.4	.339	2.0
1986	68	178	155	21	41	6	0	12	29	22	51	1	1	.265	.360	.535	.895	140.4	138.0	.393	1.5
1987	85	163	130	19	31	3	0	7	21	30	43	0	0	.238	.387	.423	.810	116.2	115.1	.359	0.5

Career totals

1,782

432nd-most career G

6,570

5,539

765

1,369

237

188

437th-most career HR

RBI

826

488th-most career RBI

905

180th-most career BB

1,025

371st-most career SO

.2472

OBP

.3539

SLG

.4091

OPS

.7630

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	TB
1978-06-04	CWS @ KC Gameday	5	1	5	1	2	0	1	10
1977-09-07	KC @ SEA Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	2	10
1977-09-08	KC @ SEA Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	2	10
1986-09-13	TEX @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	5	10
1978-08-27	KC @ TEX Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	10

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

1× NLCS MVP1× World Series MVP4× 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.