MLB / Players

Dave Hillman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 168 lb

BornSeptember 14, 1927 · Dungannon, VA, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1955

Final gameJune 22, 1962

Seasons8 (1955–1962)

Chicago Cubs 1955–1959; Boston Red Sox 1960–1961; Cincinnati Reds 1962; New York Mets 1962

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified pitchers

73.2

12.5

3.6

46.4

3.6

SHO

12.5

178

73.2

85.7

12.5

64.3

191.0

28.6

ERA

3.53

57.1

WHIP

1.157

82.1

K/9

4.15

FIP

3.55

64.3

FIP-

89.8

73.2

ERA+

111.8

55.4

sWAR

2.9

of 57 qualified 1959 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.5

82.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1955	26	14	10	1	1	0	0	3	5	.100	.308	.100	.408	34.5	14.4	.240	-0.2
1956	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.1	-100.0	.000	0.3
1957	36	29	24	1	0	0	0	3	16	.000	.111	.000	.111	-72.2	-66.6	.082	0.2
1958	32	43	41	4	6	2	3	0	20	.146	.146	.195	.341	-27.1	-9.9	.151	2.2
1959	42	71	60	0	9	0	3	6	32	.150	.239	.150	.389	7.9	6.9	.200	2.9
1960	16	8	6	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.143	.000	.143	-60.4	-58.5	.107	-0.4
1961	28	21	17	3	0	0	0	2	7	.000	.105	.000	.105	-76.5	-69.4	.078	1.8
1962	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.6	-100.0	.000	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1955	25	3	0	0	0	0	0	63	34	25	23	10	57.7	5.31	1.526	3.59	5.12	124.9	77.2	-0.2
1956	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	11	3	5	6	0	12.3	2.19	1.297	4.38	2.48	65.7	172.1	0.3
1957	32	14	6	11	1	1	0	115	50	37	53	13	103.3	4.35	1.471	4.62	4.20	107.9	89.3	0.2
1958	31	16	4	8	1	3	0	132	44	31	65	12	125.7	3.15	1.297	4.66	3.45	88.1	124.4	2.2
1959	39	24	8	11	0	4	1	178	75	43	88	17	191.0	3.53	1.157	4.15	3.55	89.8	111.8	2.9
1960	16	3	0	3	0	0	0	41	23	12	14	6	36.7	5.65	1.445	3.44	4.75	117.6	71.5	-0.4
1961	28	1	3	2	0	0	0	70	24	23	39	8	78.0	2.77	1.192	4.50	3.72	89.8	149.6	1.8
1962	15	1	0	0	1	0	0	29	15	9	8	5	19.3	6.98	1.966	3.72	6.81	166.1	58.5	-0.5

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

197

191

163

RBI

.0982

OBP

.1788

SLG

.1104

OPS

.2892

Pitching

G (P)

188

SHO

624

SO (P)

296

BB allowed

185

ERA

3.865

WHIP

1.3205

K/9

4.27

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	RBI	BB	TB
1959-07-24	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	3
1958-08-05	SF @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	1	3	0	3
1959-09-26	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	0	2	1	2
1958-07-04	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	1	0	0	2
1959-07-11	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-05-28	CHC @ LAD Gameday	7.2	5	2	2	1	11	1
1958-08-15	CHC @ SF Gameday	10.0	6	1	1	2	10	1
1959-09-26	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	2	7	0
1959-05-14	CIN @ CHC Gameday	8.0	4	2	2	1	6	0
1957-08-17	CIN @ CHC Gameday	7.2	6	1	1	6	6	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.