Dave Hamilton
Oakland Athletics 1972–1974; Chicago White Sox 1975; Oakland Athletics 1975; Chicago White Sox 1976–1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1978; St. Louis Cardinals 1978; Oakland Athletics 1979–1980
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 25 | 33 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .313 | .192 | .505 | 72.8 | 57.9 | .272 | 1.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1974 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.5 |
| 1975 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.7 |
| 1976 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.9 |
| 1977 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.0 |
| 1978 | 29 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -2.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 25 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 94 | 33 | 31 | 55 | 7 | 101.3 | 2.93 | 1.234 | 4.88 | 3.03 | 104.9 | 98.6 | 1.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 74 | 34 | 24 | 34 | 8 | 69.7 | 4.39 | 1.407 | 4.39 | 4.17 | 116.3 | 81.7 | 0.0 |
| 1974 | 29 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 104 | 41 | 48 | 69 | 10 | 117.0 | 3.15 | 1.299 | 5.31 | 3.86 | 114.5 | 107.0 | 1.5 |
| 1975 | 41 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 38 | 47 | 71 | 8 | 105.3 | 3.25 | 1.443 | 6.07 | 3.53 | 93.6 | 116.9 | 1.7 |
| 1976 | 45 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 36 | 45 | 62 | 4 | 90.3 | 3.59 | 1.395 | 6.18 | 3.45 | 96.9 | 99.3 | 0.9 |
| 1977 | 55 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 27 | 33 | 45 | 6 | 67.3 | 3.61 | 1.545 | 6.01 | 4.04 | 98.6 | 113.4 | 1.0 |
| 1978 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 20 | 18 | 23 | 7 | 40.3 | 4.46 | 1.413 | 5.13 | 5.08 | 132.8 | 84.7 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 40 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 80 | 34 | 43 | 52 | 5 | 82.7 | 3.70 | 1.488 | 5.66 | 3.89 | 96.3 | 109.2 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 38 | 28 | 23 | 6 | 30.0 | 11.40 | 2.400 | 6.90 | 6.93 | 182.2 | 33.3 | -2.3 |
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
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972-07-16 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1972-06-27 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1972-07-12 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1972-05-29 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1972-06-04 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972-06-23 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 1973-06-22 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 1973-06-01 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 7.1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| 1974-06-17 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 1974-05-12 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 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.