MLB / Players

Dave Boswell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 185 lb

BornJanuary 20, 1945 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1964

Final gameSeptember 17, 1971

Seasons8 (1964–1971)

Minnesota Twins 1964–1970; Baltimore Orioles 1971; Detroit Tigers 1971

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified pitchers

61.5

84.6

82.1

52.6

SHO

215

43.6

34.6

14.1

190

79.5

51.3

256.3

74.4

ERA

3.23

57.7

WHIP

1.225

60.3

K/9

6.67

71.8

FIP

3.04

70.5

FIP-

83.3

71.8

ERA+

113.1

64.1

sWAR

4.1

69.2

of 79 qualified 1969 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.9

sWAR

11.6

88.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1964	4	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	.222	.222	.222	.444	12.5	24.4	.202	0.1
1965	36	39	38	7	12	0	1	0	1	1	6	.316	.333	.368	.702	97.9	97.0	.322	1.7
1966	32	66	63	4	9	1	0	0	3	0	18	.143	.156	.159	.315	-27.1	-10.8	.146	2.5
1967	44	79	73	12	16	2	1	1	3	1	26	.219	.250	.315	.565	56.0	61.5	.261	3.1
1968	37	68	60	9	14	3	1	1	4	2	24	.233	.254	.367	.621	77.5	83.5	.283	1.9
1969	40	103	94	7	16	2	1	2	9	2	29	.170	.196	.277	.472	20.6	30.8	.218	4.1
1970	20	25	25	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	11	.160	.160	.200	.360	-17.7	-1.3	.164	-1.6
1971	18	5	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	.200	.200	.400	.600	59.3	69.5	.266	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1964	4	4	2	0	0	0	21	11	12	25	4	23.3	4.24	1.414	9.64	4.09	112.5	85.6	0.1
1965	27	12	6	5	1	0	77	40	46	85	20	106.0	3.40	1.160	7.22	4.69	131.7	104.8	1.7
1966	28	21	12	5	8	1	120	59	65	173	19	169.3	3.14	1.093	9.19	3.09	86.3	114.3	2.5
1967	37	32	14	12	11	3	162	81	107	204	14	222.7	3.27	1.208	8.25	2.94	85.7	104.9	3.1
1968	34	28	10	13	7	2	148	70	87	143	19	190.0	3.32	1.237	6.77	3.50	113.5	93.1	1.9
1969	39	38	20	12	10	0	215	92	99	190	18	256.3	3.23	1.225	6.67	3.04	83.3	113.1	4.1
1970	18	15	3	7	0	0	80	49	44	45	12	68.7	6.42	1.806	5.90	5.40	144.2	58.3	-1.6
1971	18	1	1	2	0	0	35	15	21	17	4	29.0	4.66	1.931	5.28	5.15	152.3	72.7	-0.1

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

231

395

367

RBI

119

.2016

OBP

.2222

SLG

.2834

OPS

.5056

Pitching

G (P)

205

151

SHO

1,065

SO (P)

882

BB allowed

481

ERA

3.523

464th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2569

365th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.45

148th-highest career K/9

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
1968-04-30	MIN @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	2	0	6
1969-06-20	MIN @ ATH Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	1	1	5
1969-04-20	LAA @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
1965-05-28	MIN @ TEX Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
1967-08-24	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1969-09-19	MIL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	14	0
1967-06-28	BOS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	1	13	2
1969-05-13	BAL @ MIN Gameday	8.2	5	2	1	3	13	0
1966-05-06	BOS @ MIN Gameday	6.0	4	3	3	3	12	2
1966-06-14	MIN @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	1	11	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.