Dave Ford
Baltimore Orioles 1978–1981
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.9 |
| 1980 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1981 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 15.0 | 0.00 | .800 | 3.00 | 2.29 | 64.5 | — | 0.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 30.0 | 2.10 | 1.000 | 2.10 | 3.87 | 95.4 | 193.0 | 0.9 |
| 1980 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 66 | 33 | 13 | 22 | 11 | 69.7 | 4.26 | 1.134 | 2.84 | 4.83 | 121.9 | 92.9 | 0.4 |
| 1981 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 29 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 40.0 | 6.53 | 1.775 | 2.70 | 3.34 | 92.1 | 55.6 | -1.0 |
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
Pitching
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
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-04-18 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 1980-08-25 | BAL @ SEA Gameday | 6.2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1981-05-16 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978-09-14 | BAL @ MIL Gameday | 6.2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981-09-03 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 3.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
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.