Darryl Motley
Kansas City Royals 1981; Kansas City Royals 1983–1985; Atlanta Braves 1986; Kansas City Royals 1986; Atlanta Braves 1987
Percentile snapshot
1984 season — qualified batters
of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 42 | 135 | 125 | 15 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 3 | .232 | .276 | .312 | .588 | 68.9 | 70.7 | .276 | -0.2 |
| 1983 | 19 | 72 | 68 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | .235 | .264 | .441 | .705 | 86.7 | 90.7 | .308 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 146 | 557 | 522 | 64 | 148 | 25 | 6 | 15 | 70 | 28 | 73 | 10 | 12 | .284 | .319 | .441 | .760 | 107.4 | 108.4 | .337 | 1.7 |
| 1985 | 123 | 408 | 383 | 45 | 85 | 20 | 1 | 17 | 49 | 18 | 57 | 6 | 4 | .222 | .257 | .413 | .670 | 75.7 | 80.8 | .290 | -0.5 |
| 1986 | 77 | 240 | 227 | 23 | 46 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 12 | 32 | 0 | 2 | .203 | .243 | .348 | .591 | 52.0 | 58.4 | .260 | -0.9 |
| 1987 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-06-03 | KC @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1984-05-03 | KC @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1984-05-25 | KC @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1984-08-26 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1986-05-09 | KC @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
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.