MLB / Players

Dave Hoskins

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 3, 1917 · Greenwood, MS, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1953

Final gameSeptember 21, 1954

Seasons7 (1942–1954)

Chicago American Giants 1942; Kansas City Monarchs 1943; Homestead Grays 1944–1946; Cleveland Indians 1953–1954

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

12.6

203

17.1

184

18.9

20.7

17.1

22.5

46.8

RBI

19.8

72.1

35.1

.283

56.8

OBP

.337

39.6

SLG

.370

39.6

OPS

.706

36.9

wRC+

97.4

34.2

OPS+

97.8

33.3

wOBA

.337

sWAR

1.1

34.2

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 142 PA)

1944 season — qualified pitchers

4.2

3.2

12.6

92.6

10.5

SHO

29.5

91.6

100

2.1

95.8

50.3

5.3

ERA

3.75

25.3

WHIP

1.371

30.5

K/9

2.68

24.2

FIP

3.98

21.1

FIP-

92.2

67.4

ERA+

114.9

55.8

sWAR

1.9

42.1

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 43 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.7

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
1942	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	187.6	198.2	.469	-0.1
1943	1	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	197.3	207.2	.477	0.1
1944	52	200	189	32	63	10	4	4	43	5	2	2	0	.333	.357	.492	.849	119.4	126.0	.390	1.9
1945	46	203	184	32	52	8	4	0	26	15	2	0	0	.283	.337	.370	.706	97.4	97.8	.337	1.1
1946	49	171	149	19	37	3	3	0	11	18	0	1	0	.248	.329	.309	.638	83.6	78.5	.316	-0.8
1953	38	63	58	10	15	2	0	1	9	3	11	0	0	.259	.306	.345	.651	76.2	79.7	.304	1.3
1954	15	9	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.000	.111	.000	.111	-78.9	-67.2	.084	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1942	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	8	4	0	3	0	4.0	9.00	2.000	6.75	2.05	50.4	45.1	-0.1
1944	8	6	5	2	0	5	1	57	21	12	15	0	50.3	3.75	1.371	2.68	3.98	92.2	114.9	1.9
1945	6	3	2	2	0	3	0	40	13	11	34	1	34.3	3.41	1.485	8.91	3.34	81.1	121.0	1.1
1946	6	3	0	2	0	1	0	40	26	8	12	1	28.3	8.26	1.694	3.81	4.47	101.2	53.5	-0.8
1953	26	7	9	3	1	3	0	102	50	38	55	9	112.7	3.99	1.243	4.39	3.75	98.3	95.4	1.3
1954	14	1	0	1	0	0	0	29	9	10	9	3	26.7	3.04	1.463	3.04	4.29	116.7	121.1	0.4

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

202

652

594

170

RBI

.2862

OBP

.3365

SLG

.3872

OPS

.7237

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

256

SO (P)

128

BB allowed

ERA

4.319

WHIP

1.3849

K/9

4.49

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	TB
1953-05-10	CLE @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	4	6
1944-08-27	NE @ HOM Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	0	2	6
1945-06-22	HOM @ BEG Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	0	3	5
1944-08-18	HOM @ NE Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	0	2	5
1945-05-21	HOM @ PHS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-07-24	HOM @ BEG Gameday	10.0	6	3	0	3	11	0
1945-09-26	HOM @ NYC Gameday	8.0	11	4	4	2	11	0
1945-06-27	KCM @ HOM Gameday	9.0	17	9	8	3	7	1
1944-07-12	HOM @ NYC Gameday	9.0	10	7	5	0	5	0
1953-08-05	CLE @ MIN Gameday	6.0	13	8	5	0	5	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.