MLB / Players

Dave Dravecky

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 14, 1956 · Youngstown, OH, USA

MLB debutJune 15, 1982

Final gameAugust 15, 1989

Seasons8 (1982–1989)

San Diego Padres 1982–1987; San Francisco Giants 1987–1989

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified pitchers

100

15.6

18.2

35.1

45.5

SHO

79.2

186

70.1

90.9

64.9

138

57.1

75.3

191.3

28.6

ERA

3.43

81.8

WHIP

1.307

53.2

K/9

6.49

68.8

FIP

3.73

76.6

FIP-

94.7

64.9

ERA+

114.5

72.7

sWAR

3.0

58.4

of 78 qualified 1987 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.3

83.4

sWAR

16.4

91.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1982	32	28	23	0	3	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	0	.130	.167	.130	.297	-20.3	-13.8	.148	2.1
1983	28	70	61	4	6	2	0	0	1	3	19	0	0	.098	.141	.131	.272	-31.7	-22.7	.135	1.5
1984	50	49	41	3	4	2	0	0	3	3	8	0	0	.098	.159	.146	.305	-19.4	-13.0	.154	2.7
1985	34	79	69	5	8	1	1	0	1	4	20	0	0	.116	.164	.159	.324	-15.7	-8.0	.159	3.6
1986	35	57	50	3	7	0	0	1	7	1	16	1	0	.140	.157	.200	.357	-12.7	-1.1	.165	2.7
1987	49	64	56	3	8	1	0	0	0	4	27	1	1	.143	.200	.161	.361	-2.6	-0.7	.178	3.0
1988	7	13	10	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-57.8	-40.9	.093	0.4
1989	2	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.333	.600	.333	.933	218.4	178.4	.486	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1982	31	10	5	3	2	0	0	86	30	33	59	8	105.0	2.57	1.133	5.06	3.59	103.4	134.8	2.1
1983	28	28	14	10	0	9	1	181	73	44	74	18	183.7	3.58	1.225	3.63	3.91	111.0	98.4	1.5
1984	50	14	9	8	8	3	2	125	51	51	71	12	156.7	2.93	1.123	4.08	3.93	110.3	121.8	2.7
1985	34	31	13	11	0	7	2	200	70	57	105	18	214.7	2.93	1.197	4.40	3.54	99.9	120.7	3.6
1986	26	26	9	11	0	3	1	149	55	54	87	17	161.3	3.07	1.258	4.85	4.06	110.8	119.4	2.7
1987	48	28	10	12	0	5	3	186	73	64	138	18	191.3	3.43	1.307	6.49	3.73	94.7	114.5	3.0
1988	7	7	2	2	0	1	0	33	13	8	19	4	37.0	3.16	1.108	4.62	3.73	112.7	104.8	0.4
1989	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	8	5	4	5	2	13.0	3.46	.923	3.46	5.05	147.8	98.6	0.2

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

237

365

313

RBI

.1214

OBP

.1692

SLG

.1565

OPS

.3257

Pitching

G (P)

226

146

SHO

1,063

SO (P)

558

BB allowed

315

ERA

3.134

224th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2073

184th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.73

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
1986-04-16	LAD @ SD Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1987-08-21	SF @ WSH Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	3
1985-10-01	SD @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	3
1983-05-28	NYM @ SD Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	2
1983-06-18	HOU @ SD Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1986-05-21	PHI @ SD Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	0	11	0
1985-06-23	SF @ SD Gameday	9.0	9	1	1	1	9	1
1987-10-13	SF @ STL Gameday	6.0	5	1	1	0	8	0
1985-08-14	CIN @ SD Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	3	7	0
1987-08-15	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	7	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.