Dave Cole
Boston Braves 1950–1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953; Chicago Cubs 1954; Philadelphia Phillies 1955
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
| 1951 | 23 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .353 | .353 | .706 | 1.059 | 183.6 | 186.7 | .456 | 0.6 |
| 1952 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | 2.000 | 2.500 | 534.9 | 534.8 | 1.000 | -0.5 |
| 1954 | 19 | 31 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .267 | .321 | .588 | 44.7 | 51.5 | .268 | -0.2 |
| 1955 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -1.5 | 8.0 | .182 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 8.0 | 1.13 | 1.250 | 9.00 | 1.96 | 50.1 | 347.0 | 0.3 |
| 1951 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 64 | 32 | 64 | 33 | 3 | 67.7 | 4.26 | 1.892 | 4.39 | 4.91 | 132.2 | 87.2 | 0.6 |
| 1952 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 20 | 42 | 22 | 2 | 44.7 | 4.03 | 1.791 | 4.43 | 5.04 | 141.5 | 88.3 | 0.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 14.7 | 8.59 | 2.114 | 7.98 | 4.59 | 114.9 | 46.5 | -0.5 |
| 1954 | 18 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 74 | 50 | 62 | 37 | 7 | 84.0 | 5.36 | 1.619 | 3.96 | 4.87 | 117.1 | 77.6 | -0.2 |
| 1955 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 18.3 | 6.38 | 1.909 | 2.95 | 6.07 | 152.9 | 62.2 | -0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-09-09 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1954-09-22 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953-06-19 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1951-07-08 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1954-08-28 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-07-24 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 1951-08-29 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 8.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 1950-10-01 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1953-06-19 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 3.2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1951-06-19 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
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.