MLB / Players

Dave Lemanczyk

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 235 lb
BornAugust 17, 1950 · Syracuse, NY, USA
MLB debutApril 15, 1973
Final gameSeptember 27, 1980
Seasons8 (1973–1980)

Detroit Tigers 1973–1976; Toronto Blue Jays 1977–1979; California Angels 1980; Toronto Blue Jays 1980

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified pitchers

G
34
42.5
GS
34
61.3
W
13
47.5
L
16
13.8
SV
0
0
CG
11
67.5
SHO
0
0
H
278
6.3
ER
119
2.5
BB
87
11.3
SO
105
36.3
HR
20
50
IP
252.0
83.8
ERA
4.25
27.5
WHIP
1.448
13.8
K/9
3.75
10
FIP
4.03
40
FIP-
96.8
48.8
ERA+
97.9
31.3
sWAR
2.2
38.8

of 81 qualified 1977 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
2.5
72.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19731000000000000-0.2
1974220000000000000.5
1975260000000000000.5
197620000000000000-0.6
1977340000000000002.2
197829000000000000-2.5
1979220000000000002.4
1980310000000000000.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19731000000430002.311.571.7140.002.5864.334.7-0.2
197422321000793544521278.74.001.5645.954.99132.893.80.5
1975266270401205446678109.04.461.5235.533.6391.489.10.5
197620104601086463451781.35.091.4755.643.74101.972.1-0.6
19773434131601102781198710520252.04.251.4483.754.0396.897.92.2
1978292041403017095656216136.76.261.7204.084.66119.762.2-2.5
19792220810011313759456312143.03.711.2733.974.0593.7116.32.4
198031104900013858422912110.04.751.6362.374.85120.485.10.2

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

G
185
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
185
GS
103
W
37
L
63
SV
0
CG
30
SHO
3
IP
913
SO (P)
429
BB allowed
363
ERA
4.623
WHIP
1.5060
K/9
4.23

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

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1977-05-29LAA @ TOR Gameday9.0833181
1979-05-21CLE @ TOR Gameday9.0711380
1976-07-21DET @ CWS Gameday8.0633180
1977-10-02CLE @ TOR Gameday11.01111170
1977-04-09CWS @ TOR Gameday9.0833571

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

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.