Dave Leiper

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 160 lb

BornJune 18, 1962 · Whittier, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1984

Final gameSeptember 22, 1996

Seasons8 (1984–1996)

Oakland Athletics 1984; Oakland Athletics 1986–1987; San Diego Padres 1987–1989; Oakland Athletics 1994; Montreal Expos 1995; Oakland Athletics 1995; Montreal Expos 1996; Philadelphia Phillies 1996

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

2.7

72.9

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	H	RBI	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1984	8	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1986	33	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1987	57	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1988	35	2	2	1	1	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	205.0	191.6	.465	1.4
1989	22	1	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.2	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1994	26	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1995	50	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.9	-100.0	.000	1.0
1996	33	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1984	8	1	0	0	12	7	5	3	2	7.0	9.00	2.429	3.86	7.75	203.7	42.3	-0.4
1986	33	2	2	1	28	17	18	15	3	31.7	4.83	1.453	4.26	4.97	126.2	81.5	0.0
1987	57	3	1	2	65	30	23	43	8	68.3	3.95	1.288	5.66	4.19	101.0	105.1	0.8
1988	35	3	0	1	45	13	14	33	1	54.0	2.17	1.093	5.50	2.50	73.7	156.8	1.4
1989	22	0	1	0	40	16	20	7	2	28.7	5.02	2.093	2.20	5.38	154.0	69.6	-0.3
1994	26	0	0	1	13	4	6	14	0	18.7	1.93	1.018	6.75	2.82	62.5	234.0	0.7
1995	50	1	3	2	39	16	19	22	5	44.7	3.22	1.299	4.43	4.92	111.2	136.5	1.0
1996	33	2	1	0	40	20	9	13	4	25.0	7.20	1.960	4.68	5.21	122.4	59.2	-0.6

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

264

RBI

.2500

OBP

.2500

SLG

.2500

OPS

.5000

Pitching

G (P)

264

SHO

278

SO (P)

150

BB allowed

114

ERA

3.982

WHIP

1.4245

K/9

4.86

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	H	RBI	TB
1988-08-10	SD @ ATL Gameday	1	1	1	1
1987-09-01	NYM @ SD Gameday	0	0	0	0
1987-09-06	SD @ STL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1987-09-08	SD @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1987-09-15	SD @ SF Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-05-25	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3.1	1	0	0	0	7	0
1988-08-01	ATL @ SD Gameday	3.0	2	1	1	0	5	0
1987-07-23	ATH @ MIL Gameday	2.2	6	4	4	0	3	0
1987-10-02	LAD @ SD Gameday	2.0	3	2	2	1	3	1
1987-05-22	BAL @ ATH Gameday	1.1	1	0	0	0	3	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.