MLB / Players

Dave Morehead

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 5, 1943 · San Diego, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1963

Final gameSeptember 29, 1970

Seasons8 (1963–1970)

Boston Red Sox 1963–1968; Kansas City Royals 1969–1970

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

18.1

54.2

20.8

4.2

23.6

SHO

45.8

157

88.9

36.1

113

5.6

163

192.7

27.8

ERA

4.06

13.9

WHIP

1.401

9.7

K/9

7.61

86.1

FIP

3.73

19.4

FIP-

100.4

37.5

ERA+

91.3

22.2

sWAR

1.1

20.8

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.1

74.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1963	29	62	57	3	6	0	2	1	18	.105	.119	.105	.224	-58.3	-37.6	.105	1.3
1964	32	60	54	2	5	1	2	4	21	.093	.155	.111	.266	-40.8	-26.3	.136	-0.9
1965	34	73	61	3	8	1	5	7	21	.131	.232	.148	.379	5.3	6.9	.198	1.1
1966	12	6	6	1	3	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	192.2	175.8	.456	-0.2
1967	10	16	12	1	1	0	0	1	4	.083	.154	.083	.237	-43.8	-30.5	.128	-0.1
1968	11	18	16	1	2	0	1	0	10	.125	.176	.125	.301	-26.0	-9.8	.154	1.0
1969	21	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	43.8	0.3	.251	-0.5
1970	28	40	36	1	6	1	1	1	15	.167	.189	.194	.384	-5.1	6.4	.181	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1963	29	29	10	13	0	6	1	137	74	99	136	20	174.7	3.81	1.351	7.01	4.09	108.5	98.9	1.3
1964	32	30	8	15	0	3	1	156	92	112	139	14	166.7	4.97	1.608	7.51	3.97	103.2	77.4	-0.9
1965	34	33	10	18	0	5	2	157	87	113	163	18	192.7	4.06	1.401	7.61	3.73	100.4	91.3	1.1
1966	12	5	1	2	0	0	0	31	17	7	20	7	28.0	5.46	1.357	6.43	5.01	132.2	69.3	-0.2
1967	10	9	5	4	0	1	1	48	23	22	40	0	47.7	4.34	1.469	7.55	2.25	64.7	80.1	-0.1
1968	11	9	1	4	0	3	1	52	15	20	28	3	55.0	2.45	1.309	4.58	3.11	98.5	128.8	1.0
1969	21	2	2	3	0	0	0	28	21	28	32	7	33.0	5.73	1.697	8.73	5.73	156.7	63.8	-0.5
1970	28	17	3	5	1	1	0	121	49	62	69	9	121.7	3.62	1.504	5.10	3.81	102.5	102.6	1.3

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

177

278

244

RBI

.1270

OBP

.1832

SLG

.1393

OPS

.3225

Pitching

G (P)

177

134

SHO

819

SO (P)

627

BB allowed

463

ERA

4.152

WHIP

1.4561

K/9

6.89

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	RBI	TB
1963-07-02	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2
1966-04-19	DET @ BOS Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	2
1968-09-15	MIN @ BOS Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1970-05-25	CWS @ KC Gameday	4	0	1	1	1	2
1964-08-20	BAL @ BOS Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-06-12	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	1	12	1
1963-07-06	CWS @ BOS Gameday	9.0	3	2	1	2	11	0
1963-09-24	ATH @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	11	0
1965-04-20	TEX @ BOS Gameday	7.1	6	2	2	0	11	1
1963-04-13	BOS @ TEX Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	10	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.