Dave Chalk
California Angels 1973–1978; Oakland Athletics 1979; Texas Rangers 1979; Kansas City Royals 1980–1981
Percentile snapshot
1978 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1978 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 24 | 79 | 69 | 14 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .232 | .329 | .261 | .590 | 82.0 | 74.3 | .293 | 0.2 |
| 1974 | 133 | 515 | 465 | 44 | 117 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 31 | 30 | 57 | 10 | 10 | .252 | .304 | .316 | .620 | 84.0 | 83.7 | .294 | 1.4 |
| 1975 | 149 | 601 | 513 | 59 | 140 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 56 | 66 | 49 | 6 | 9 | .273 | .353 | .345 | .698 | 106.8 | 104.2 | .330 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 142 | 512 | 438 | 39 | 95 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 49 | 62 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .308 | .253 | .561 | 74.9 | 70.7 | .278 | 0.9 |
| 1977 | 149 | 591 | 519 | 58 | 144 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 45 | 52 | 69 | 12 | 8 | .277 | .345 | .355 | .700 | 98.2 | 95.6 | .322 | 2.2 |
| 1978 | 135 | 527 | 470 | 42 | 119 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 38 | 34 | 5 | 8 | .253 | .318 | .285 | .603 | 77.6 | 74.6 | .289 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 75 | 259 | 220 | 15 | 49 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 29 | 14 | 2 | 1 | .223 | .315 | .277 | .592 | 72.1 | 65.8 | .285 | 0.2 |
| 1980 | 69 | 190 | 167 | 19 | 42 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 18 | 27 | 1 | 1 | .251 | .326 | .341 | .668 | 85.9 | 83.0 | .312 | 0.4 |
| 1981 | 27 | 56 | 49 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .224 | .283 | .286 | .569 | 66.3 | 65.8 | .272 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-09-20 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1977-06-12 | CLE @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1980-07-29 | BOS @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1974-08-30 | LAA @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1974-04-30 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.