Dave Collins

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 20, 1952 · Rapid City, SD, USA

MLB debutJune 7, 1975

Final gameOctober 3, 1990

Seasons16 (1975–1990)

California Angels 1975–1976; Seattle Mariners 1977; Cincinnati Reds 1978–1981; New York Yankees 1982; Toronto Blue Jays 1983–1984; Oakland Athletics 1985; Detroit Tigers 1986; Cincinnati Reds 1987–1989; St. Louis Cardinals 1990

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

26.3

412

51.8

360

47.4

91.2

59.9

86.1

25.5

RBI

6.6

62.8

61.3

94.2

7.3

.272

48.9

OBP

.355

65.7

SLG

.381

41.6

OPS

.735

50.4

wRC+

114.1

55.5

OPS+

107.9

43.1

wOBA

.350

sWAR

1.6

40.1

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 334 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.0

33.8

OPS+

93.0

27.7

sWAR

9.3

86.1

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
1975	93	362	319	41	85	13	4	3	29	36	55	24	10	.266	.340	.361	.700	107.0	104.5	.330	1.0
1976	99	413	365	45	96	12	1	4	28	40	55	32	19	.263	.335	.334	.669	105.2	102.3	.321	1.1
1977	120	447	402	46	96	9	3	5	28	33	66	25	10	.239	.299	.313	.613	68.4	67.5	.284	-1.0
1978	102	120	102	13	22	1	0	0	7	15	18	7	7	.216	.311	.225	.536	59.5	53.0	.271	-0.2
1979	122	429	396	59	126	16	4	3	35	27	48	16	9	.318	.364	.402	.765	112.8	109.2	.354	1.5
1980	144	613	551	94	167	20	4	3	35	53	68	79	21	.303	.366	.370	.736	112.8	107.1	.347	3.1
1981	95	412	360	63	98	18	6	3	23	41	41	26	10	.272	.355	.381	.735	114.1	107.9	.350	1.6
1982	111	393	348	41	88	12	3	3	25	28	49	13	8	.253	.315	.330	.646	79.5	80.0	.295	-0.3
1983	118	451	402	55	109	12	4	1	34	43	67	31	7	.271	.343	.328	.671	86.3	82.7	.314	0.2
1984	128	492	441	59	136	24	15	2	44	33	41	60	14	.308	.366	.444	.811	125.8	121.8	.367	2.6
1985	112	418	379	52	95	16	4	4	29	29	37	29	8	.251	.303	.346	.648	82.2	82.8	.293	0.1
1986	124	476	419	44	113	18	2	1	27	44	49	27	12	.270	.340	.329	.670	89.3	85.3	.312	0.3
1987	57	100	85	19	25	5	0	0	5	11	12	9	0	.294	.388	.353	.741	104.7	95.6	.351	0.3
1988	99	189	174	12	41	6	2	0	14	11	27	7	2	.236	.286	.293	.579	64.2	64.6	.274	-0.4
1989	78	118	106	12	25	4	0	0	7	10	17	3	1	.236	.302	.274	.575	67.8	64.4	.279	-0.2
1990	99	74	58	12	13	1	0	0	3	13	10	7	1	.224	.366	.241	.608	78.4	71.6	.299	-0.5

Career totals

1,701

5,507

4,907

667

1,335

187

RBI

373

467

660

395

79th-most career SB

.2721

OBP

.3380

SLG

.3509

OPS

.6889

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	TB
1975-06-20	TEX @ LAA Gameday	6	1	5	1	1	0	2	8
1980-05-13	NYM @ CIN Gameday	6	4	4	0	0	1	1	7
1979-07-22	CIN @ CHC Gameday	6	4	4	1	1	0	0	7
1976-08-22	LAA @ NYY Gameday	6	2	3	1	0	1	2	7
1982-10-03	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	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.