Dave Kingman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 210 lb

BornDecember 21, 1948 · Pendleton, OR, USA

MLB debutJuly 30, 1971

Final gameOctober 5, 1986

Seasons16 (1971–1986)

San Francisco Giants 1971–1974; New York Mets 1975–1976; California Angels 1977; New York Yankees 1977; New York Mets 1977; San Diego Padres 1977; Chicago Cubs 1978–1980; New York Mets 1981–1983; Oakland Athletics 1984–1986

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

144

30.2

604

47.6

561

59.5

39.7

118

11.1

15.9

98.4

RBI

11.1

126

10.3

20.6

68.3

.210

OBP

.255

SLG

.431

48.4

OPS

.686

16.7

wRC+

83.4

11.9

OPS+

88.7

17.5

wOBA

.296

7.9

sWAR

-0.8

1.6

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.9

63.6

OPS+

114.1

70.5

sWAR

21.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1971	41	128	115	17	32	10	2	6	24	9	35	5	0	.278	.328	.557	.885	147.9	148.4	.391	0.9
1972	135	531	472	65	106	17	4	29	83	51	140	16	6	.225	.303	.462	.765	114.3	113.8	.347	2.2
1973	112	351	305	54	62	10	1	24	55	41	122	8	5	.203	.300	.479	.779	107.9	109.2	.349	1.0
1974	121	393	350	41	78	18	2	18	55	37	125	8	8	.223	.302	.440	.742	101.4	102.2	.342	0.6
1975	134	543	502	65	116	22	1	36	88	34	153	7	5	.231	.284	.494	.778	113.0	118.5	.349	1.8
1976	123	510	474	70	113	14	1	37	86	28	135	7	4	.238	.286	.506	.793	123.4	128.7	.355	2.4
1977	132	481	439	47	97	20	0	26	78	28	143	5	6	.221	.276	.444	.720	91.7	96.7	.315	0.3
1978	119	448	395	65	105	17	4	28	79	39	111	3	4	.266	.336	.542	.878	129.2	130.9	.387	2.5
1979	145	589	532	97	153	19	5	48	115	45	131	4	2	.288	.343	.613	.956	145.2	145.7	.414	4.5
1980	81	280	255	31	71	8	0	18	57	21	44	2	2	.278	.329	.522	.850	125.7	126.5	.376	1.5
1981	100	412	353	40	78	11	3	22	59	55	105	6	0	.221	.326	.456	.782	120.7	121.5	.356	1.6
1982	149	607	535	80	109	9	1	37	99	59	156	4	0	.204	.285	.432	.717	94.5	98.6	.321	0.3
1983	100	273	248	25	49	7	0	13	29	22	57	2	1	.198	.265	.383	.648	76.3	78.4	.296	-0.4
1984	147	613	549	68	147	23	1	35	118	44	119	2	1	.268	.321	.505	.826	125.1	131.1	.356	2.2
1985	158	666	592	66	141	16	0	30	91	62	114	3	2	.238	.309	.417	.726	100.6	102.9	.320	0.5
1986	144	604	561	70	118	19	0	35	94	33	126	3	3	.210	.255	.431	.686	83.4	88.7	.296	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1973	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	6	4	0	4.0	9.00	2.250	9.00	5.05	132.6	42.3	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

1,941

302nd-most career G

7,429

375th-most career PA

6,677

364th-most career AB

901

479th-most career R

1,575

240

442

44th-most career HR

RBI

1,210

151st-most career RBI

608

1,816

25th-most career SO

.2359

OBP

.3016

SLG

.4779

236th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7795

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

9.000

WHIP

2.2500

K/9

9.00

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1978-05-14	CHC @ LAD Gameday	7	3	4	3	8	1	13
1979-07-28	CHC @ NYM Gameday	4	3	4	3	3	0	13
1976-06-04	NYM @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	3	8	0	12
1984-04-16	ATH @ SEA Gameday	5	3	3	3	8	0	12
1979-05-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	6	4	3	3	6	1	12

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1973-05-13	LAD @ SF Gameday	2.0	2	2	2	2	3	0
1973-04-15	CIN @ SF Gameday	2.0	1	2	2	4	1	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.

Honors

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.