Dave Hostetler
Montreal Expos 1981; Texas Rangers 1982–1984; Pittsburgh Pirates 1988
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 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 1.500 | 342.7 | 317.5 | .671 | 0.2 |
| 1982 | 113 | 466 | 418 | 53 | 97 | 12 | 3 | 22 | 67 | 42 | 113 | 2 | 2 | .232 | .300 | .433 | .733 | 101.0 | 103.5 | .323 | 0.7 |
| 1983 | 94 | 353 | 304 | 31 | 67 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 46 | 42 | 103 | 0 | 2 | .220 | .323 | .372 | .695 | 96.8 | 93.2 | .320 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 37 | 95 | 82 | 7 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .326 | .378 | .704 | 97.7 | 92.6 | .327 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 38.6 | 45.3 | .232 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-06-27 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1982-08-01 | NYY @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1982-06-15 | TEX @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1983-07-30 | TEX @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1982-06-23 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
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.