MLB / Players

Dave Engle

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb
BornNovember 30, 1956 · San Diego, CA, USA
MLB debutApril 14, 1981
Final gameJuly 28, 1989
Seasons9 (1981–1989)

Minnesota Twins 1981–1985; Detroit Tigers 1986; Montreal Expos 1987–1988; Milwaukee Brewers 1989

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
3.0
74

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1981822652482964144532133701.258.295.407.70395.297.7.3190.4
198258197186204272416102200.226.269.349.61863.766.3.280-0.6
198312040837446114224843283921.305.350.449.800116.6115.5.3572.5
198410942439156104201438262201.266.308.353.66176.679.5.2980.8
198570195172284482725212822.256.333.448.781107.5107.2.3460.5
1986359386622700471300.256.312.337.64980.078.5.298-0.2
19875990847194011461110.226.278.310.58749.854.0.266-0.3
19883442374830015500.216.310.297.60778.772.9.2950.1
1989277065514302841300.215.261.354.61571.273.3.282-0.2

Career totals

G
594
PA
1,784
AB
1,643
R
201
H
431
2B
88
3B
13
HR
31
RBI
181
BB
120
SO
190
SB
5
BA
.2623
OBP
.3112
SLG
.3883
OPS
.6995

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1983-09-15TOR @ MIN Gameday423101207
1983-08-03LAA @ MIN Gameday524200106
1982-07-06MIN @ DET Gameday413001406
1981-09-11CWS @ MIN Gameday423001206
1982-06-20TEX @ MIN Gameday413001206

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

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.