MLB / Players

Dave Danforth

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 167 lb

BornMarch 7, 1890 · Granger, TX, USA

MLB debutAugust 1, 1911

Final gameOctober 1, 1925

Seasons10 (1911–1925)

Philadelphia Athletics 1911–1912; Chicago White Sox 1916–1919; St. Louis Browns 1922–1925

Percentile snapshot

1925 season — qualified pitchers

83.7

34.8

27.4

44.4

80.7

11.9

SHO

172

54.1

53.3

46.7

0.7

159.0

48.9

ERA

4.36

51.1

WHIP

1.465

42.2

K/9

3.00

44.4

FIP

5.20

14.8

FIP-

112.0

ERA+

106.5

47.4

sWAR

1.9

51.1

of 136 qualified 1925 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

94.5

16.7

sWAR

7.9

84.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1911	14	8	6	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	43.4	29.7	.247	0.1
1912	3	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	42.6	46.0	.240	0.0
1916	28	29	23	3	2	0	0	0	4	12	0	.087	.222	.087	.309	0.9	-6.0	.187	0.2
1917	50	57	46	3	6	2	1	5	6	19	1	.130	.231	.217	.448	35.5	36.4	.234	1.7
1918	39	47	42	3	6	0	0	0	2	11	0	.143	.200	.143	.343	-5.1	3.7	.182	-0.1
1919	15	12	9	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	0	.111	.273	.222	.495	47.1	40.1	.262	-1.9
1922	20	24	23	1	2	0	0	0	1	6	0	.087	.125	.087	.212	-57.9	-44.6	.109	1.3
1923	38	89	71	5	15	5	1	11	9	7	0	.211	.309	.310	.619	59.9	59.6	.302	3.0
1924	41	86	76	3	13	3	2	9	4	15	1	.171	.213	.263	.476	13.1	21.7	.225	1.5
1925	38	56	46	3	8	0	0	2	4	8	0	.174	.255	.174	.429	7.0	7.2	.222	1.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1911	14	2	4	1	1	1	0	29	14	17	21	1	33.7	3.74	1.366	5.61	3.83	119.2	85.9	0.1
1912	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	9	12	8	0	20.3	3.98	1.869	3.54	3.93	122.9	80.4	0.0
1916	28	8	6	5	2	1	0	87	34	37	49	1	93.7	3.27	1.324	4.71	2.70	97.2	85.0	0.2
1917	50	9	11	6	9	1	1	155	51	74	79	1	173.0	2.65	1.324	4.11	2.64	98.6	100.9	1.7
1918	39	11	6	15	2	5	0	148	53	40	48	1	139.0	3.43	1.353	3.11	2.53	92.1	80.2	-0.1
1919	15	1	1	2	1	0	0	58	36	20	17	1	41.7	7.78	1.872	3.67	3.54	110.9	41.0	-1.9
1922	20	10	5	2	1	3	0	93	29	38	48	1	79.7	3.28	1.644	5.42	3.37	81.6	126.1	1.3
1923	38	26	16	14	1	16	0	221	99	87	96	4	226.3	3.94	1.361	3.82	3.60	86.7	105.5	3.0
1924	41	27	15	12	4	11	1	246	110	69	65	16	219.7	4.51	1.434	2.66	4.46	104.7	94.6	1.5
1925	38	15	7	9	2	5	0	172	77	61	53	19	159.0	4.36	1.465	3.00	5.20	112.0	106.5	1.9

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

286

416

350

RBI

.1600

OBP

.2383

SLG

.2143

OPS

.4526

Pitching

G (P)

286

109

SHO

1,186

SO (P)

484

BB allowed

455

ERA

3.885

WHIP

1.4250

K/9

3.67

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	RBI	BB	TB
1923-08-25	ATH @ BAL Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	0	1	6
1924-07-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	0	4
1923-06-25	BAL @ CLE Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	2	1	3
1917-08-02	CWS @ BOS Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	3	0	3
1924-07-04	BAL @ DET Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1923-07-17	BOS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	10
1923-09-13	BAL @ ATH Gameday	10.2	9	3	2	1	8
1922-06-09	BOS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	8
1923-08-25	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	11	4	4	1	8
1922-04-13	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	9	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.