MLB / Players

Dave Cash

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJune 11, 1948 · Utica, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1969

Final gameOctober 5, 1980

Seasons12 (1969–1980)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1969–1973; Philadelphia Phillies 1974–1976; Montreal Expos 1977–1979; San Diego Padres 1980

Percentile snapshot

1978 season — qualified batters

159

88.5

703

96.4

658

97.8

29.5

166

78.4

28.8

10.8

RBI

13.7

22.3

99.3

57.6

.252

20.1

OBP

.291

3.6

SLG

.315

4.3

OPS

.605

2.2

wRC+

69.9

2.9

OPS+

71.2

2.9

wOBA

.284

1.4

sWAR

0.1

2.2

of 140 qualified 1978 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.3

32.4

OPS+

93.6

28.7

sWAR

19.3

93.3

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
1969	18	74	61	8	17	3	1	0	4	9	9	2	0	.279	.371	.361	.732	118.0	109.5	.352	0.4
1970	64	230	210	30	66	7	6	1	28	17	25	5	2	.314	.365	.419	.784	113.6	113.7	.356	1.2
1971	123	532	478	79	138	17	4	2	34	46	33	13	5	.289	.349	.354	.703	106.9	101.9	.333	2.5
1972	99	452	425	58	120	22	4	3	30	22	31	9	9	.282	.316	.374	.690	99.0	98.9	.320	1.7
1973	116	479	436	59	118	21	2	2	31	38	36	2	5	.271	.328	.342	.669	92.9	89.3	.317	1.4
1974	162	745	687	89	206	26	11	2	58	46	33	20	8	.300	.351	.378	.729	103.6	101.1	.345	3.1
1975	162	766	699	111	213	40	3	4	57	56	34	13	6	.305	.356	.388	.744	106.3	104.3	.349	3.4
1976	160	727	666	92	189	14	12	1	56	54	13	10	12	.284	.337	.345	.683	95.5	93.4	.325	2.4
1977	153	709	650	91	188	42	7	0	43	52	33	21	12	.289	.343	.375	.719	96.2	94.6	.330	2.3
1978	159	703	658	66	166	26	3	3	43	37	29	12	6	.252	.291	.315	.605	69.9	71.2	.284	0.1
1979	76	203	187	24	60	11	1	2	19	12	12	7	4	.321	.358	.422	.781	117.9	114.7	.358	1.2
1980	130	437	397	25	90	14	2	1	23	35	21	6	5	.227	.287	.280	.567	60.8	62.9	.267	-0.4

Career totals

1,422

6,057

5,554

732

1,571

243

RBI

426

424

309

120

.2829

OBP

.3340

SLG

.3581

OPS

.6921

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
1977-08-21	ATL @ WSH Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	2	0	8
1972-06-07	PIT @ SD Gameday	6	1	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1970-06-19	WSH @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	4	1	7
1972-08-30	SD @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
1972-05-09	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	1	7

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

3× 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.