MLB / Players

Dave Davenport

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 220 lb

BornFebruary 20, 1890 · Alexandria, LA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1914

Final gameSeptember 1, 1919

Seasons6 (1914–1919)

Cincinnati Reds 1914; St. Louis Terriers 1914–1915; St. Louis Browns 1916–1919

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified pitchers

67.7

59.1

38.7

52.7

50.5

SHO

55.9

182

34.4

23.7

22.6

63.4

180.0

54.8

ERA

3.25

31.2

WHIP

1.394

22.6

K/9

3.00

54.8

FIP

2.76

51.6

FIP-

101.3

37.6

ERA+

83.8

22.6

sWAR

0.7

34.4

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 123 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.1

34.1

sWAR

12.2

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1914	43	95	86	3	8	1	0	5	4	46	.093	.143	.105	.248	-35.9	-28.7	.130	1.6
1915	55	147	130	7	12	0	0	4	9	52	.092	.157	.092	.249	-31.9	-26.0	.136	7.0
1916	59	96	73	5	10	3	0	4	16	43	.137	.308	.178	.486	63.4	48.5	.274	2.8
1917	47	100	92	0	9	1	0	8	4	48	.098	.135	.109	.244	-36.2	-24.8	.128	0.3
1918	31	67	52	3	7	1	1	3	9	22	.135	.274	.212	.486	53.3	47.6	.263	0.7
1919	24	44	39	4	3	0	0	1	2	20	.077	.122	.077	.199	-60.9	-44.6	.107	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1914	43	32	10	15	6	16	3	242	98	110	164	4	269.7	3.27	1.305	5.47	2.93	94.0	96.0	1.6
1915	55	46	22	18	1	30	10	300	96	96	229	5	392.7	2.20	1.008	5.25	2.26	74.7	137.8	7.0
1916	59	31	12	11	2	13	1	267	92	100	129	4	290.7	2.85	1.263	3.99	2.73	99.7	96.2	2.8
1917	47	39	17	17	2	20	2	273	96	105	100	5	280.7	3.08	1.347	3.21	2.87	109.6	84.9	0.3
1918	31	22	10	11	1	12	2	182	65	69	60	0	180.0	3.25	1.394	3.00	2.76	101.3	83.8	0.7
1919	24	16	2	11	0	5	0	135	54	41	37	4	123.3	3.94	1.427	2.70	3.40	102.0	84.5	-0.1

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

259

549

472

RBI

231

.1038

OBP

.1881

SLG

.1229

OPS

.3110

Pitching

G (P)

259

186

438th-most career CG

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

1,537

SO (P)

719

BB allowed

521

ERA

2.934

157th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2492

336th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.21

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1918-07-23	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1916-07-26	ATH @ BAL Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	2	3
1917-08-18	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	2
1916-06-29	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	2
1916-07-29	NYY @ BAL Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1916-04-28	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	10	6	4	4	7	0
1916-07-29	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	7	1
1917-09-20	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	10	2	1	1	7	0
1917-09-26	BAL @ ATH Gameday	8.0	7	4	0	5	7	0
1918-08-14	BAL @ ATH Gameday	11.0	8	1	1	2	6	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.