Dave May

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 186 lb

BornDecember 23, 1943 · New Castle, DE, USA

MLB debutJuly 28, 1967

Final gameOctober 1, 1978

Seasons12 (1967–1978)

Baltimore Orioles 1967–1970; Milwaukee Brewers 1970–1974; Atlanta Braves 1975–1976; Texas Rangers 1977; Milwaukee Brewers 1978; Pittsburgh Pirates 1978

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

135

515

10.7

477

19.1

16.8

108

3.1

6.9

7.6

42.7

RBI

14.5

6.9

37.4

29.8

65.6

.226

4.6

OBP

.273

2.3

SLG

.325

OPS

.598

4.6

wRC+

67.7

4.6

OPS+

72.1

5.3

wOBA

.277

3.1

sWAR

-0.8

0.8

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.3

34.4

OPS+

97.1

35.8

sWAR

10.1

87.1

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
1967	36	91	85	12	20	1	1	1	7	6	13	0	0	.235	.286	.306	.592	68.9	76.6	.269	-0.1
1968	84	172	152	15	29	6	3	0	7	19	27	3	3	.191	.285	.270	.555	67.5	70.2	.264	-0.3
1969	78	131	120	8	29	6	0	3	10	9	23	2	1	.242	.305	.367	.672	90.0	89.0	.315	0.1
1970	125	428	373	42	88	8	2	8	37	48	60	8	6	.236	.325	.332	.658	81.9	81.9	.307	0.6
1971	144	562	501	74	139	20	3	16	65	50	59	15	9	.277	.343	.425	.769	120.1	118.7	.353	3.2
1972	143	556	500	49	119	20	2	9	45	47	56	11	13	.238	.306	.340	.646	91.7	94.0	.303	1.7
1973	156	680	624	96	189	23	4	25	93	44	78	6	7	.303	.352	.473	.824	131.7	132.6	.372	5.2
1974	135	515	477	56	108	15	1	10	42	28	73	4	3	.226	.273	.325	.598	67.7	72.1	.277	-0.8
1975	82	230	203	28	56	8	0	12	40	25	27	1	1	.276	.361	.493	.853	134.5	132.7	.391	1.6
1976	105	243	214	27	46	5	3	3	23	26	31	5	1	.215	.300	.308	.609	66.4	68.4	.290	-0.5
1977	120	381	340	46	82	14	1	7	42	32	43	4	3	.241	.311	.350	.661	81.5	80.6	.303	-0.2
1978	44	96	81	9	15	4	0	2	11	10	11	1	0	.185	.290	.309	.599	69.1	68.8	.283	-0.2

Career totals

1,252

4,085

3,670

462

920

130

RBI

422

344

501

.2507

OBP

.3182

SLG

.3755

OPS

.6937

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
1973-05-13	MIL @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1973-05-15	CLE @ MIL Gameday	7	1	4	1	0	1	1	1	8
1973-09-04	CLE @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1973-04-07	MIL @ BAL Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1973-05-09	TEX @ MIL 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.

Honors

1× 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.