Dave Engle
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 82 | 265 | 248 | 29 | 64 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 32 | 13 | 37 | 0 | 1 | .258 | .295 | .407 | .703 | 95.2 | 97.7 | .319 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 58 | 197 | 186 | 20 | 42 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .269 | .349 | .618 | 63.7 | 66.3 | .280 | -0.6 |
| 1983 | 120 | 408 | 374 | 46 | 114 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 43 | 28 | 39 | 2 | 1 | .305 | .350 | .449 | .800 | 116.6 | 115.5 | .357 | 2.5 |
| 1984 | 109 | 424 | 391 | 56 | 104 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 38 | 26 | 22 | 0 | 1 | .266 | .308 | .353 | .661 | 76.6 | 79.5 | .298 | 0.8 |
| 1985 | 70 | 195 | 172 | 28 | 44 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 21 | 28 | 2 | 2 | .256 | .333 | .448 | .781 | 107.5 | 107.2 | .346 | 0.5 |
| 1986 | 35 | 93 | 86 | 6 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .312 | .337 | .649 | 80.0 | 78.5 | .298 | -0.2 |
| 1987 | 59 | 90 | 84 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .226 | .278 | .310 | .587 | 49.8 | 54.0 | .266 | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 34 | 42 | 37 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .216 | .310 | .297 | .607 | 78.7 | 72.9 | .295 | 0.1 |
| 1989 | 27 | 70 | 65 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .215 | .261 | .354 | .615 | 71.2 | 73.3 | .282 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-09-15 | TOR @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1983-08-03 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1982-07-06 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1981-09-11 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1982-06-20 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.