Dave Philley

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 188 lb

BornMay 16, 1920 · Paris, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1941

Final gameAugust 6, 1962

Seasons18 (1941–1962)

Chicago White Sox 1941; Chicago White Sox 1946–1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1951–1953; Cleveland Indians 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Cleveland Indians 1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Chicago White Sox 1956–1957; Detroit Tigers 1957; Philadelphia Phillies 1958–1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960; Philadelphia Phillies 1960; San Francisco Giants 1960; Baltimore Orioles 1961; Boston Red Sox 1962

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified batters

133

18.5

522

13.6

452

11.1

102

1.2

2.5

17.3

RBI

39.5

54.3

60.5

19.8

32.1

.226

2.5

OBP

.308

9.9

SLG

.347

11.1

OPS

.655

9.9

wRC+

78.7

12.3

OPS+

81.1

12.3

wOBA

.309

11.1

sWAR

-0.3

13.6

of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

89.5

22.5

OPS+

91.0

24.6

sWAR

9.3

86.2

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
1941	7	12	9	4	2	1	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	.222	.417	.333	.750	116.9	103.0	.375	0.1
1946	17	73	68	10	24	2	3	0	17	4	4	5	0	.353	.389	.471	.859	144.5	142.9	.396	0.5
1947	143	592	551	55	142	25	11	2	45	35	39	21	16	.258	.303	.354	.657	79.8	84.9	.309	0.5
1948	137	546	488	51	140	28	3	5	42	50	33	8	10	.287	.353	.387	.740	97.9	99.0	.352	1.8
1949	146	660	598	84	171	20	8	0	44	54	51	13	4	.286	.347	.346	.693	84.3	85.7	.335	0.2
1950	156	682	619	69	150	21	5	14	80	52	57	6	3	.242	.302	.360	.662	67.4	71.4	.309	-0.9
1951	132	565	493	71	129	20	7	7	61	65	41	9	6	.262	.351	.373	.724	95.2	94.0	.344	1.7
1952	151	666	586	80	154	25	4	7	71	59	35	11	4	.263	.334	.355	.689	85.0	86.0	.327	1.2
1953	157	677	620	80	188	30	9	9	59	51	35	13	5	.303	.358	.424	.782	104.6	105.0	.361	2.0
1954	133	522	452	48	102	13	3	12	60	57	48	2	4	.226	.308	.347	.655	78.7	81.1	.309	-0.3
1955	126	465	415	65	124	17	5	8	50	46	48	1	4	.299	.367	.422	.789	117.1	117.0	.366	1.9
1956	118	452	396	57	98	18	4	5	64	46	40	4	4	.247	.322	.351	.673	79.1	80.6	.313	-0.5
1957	87	257	244	24	72	12	1	2	25	11	26	4	2	.295	.324	.377	.701	90.6	91.2	.323	0.2
1958	91	225	207	30	64	11	4	3	31	15	20	1	1	.309	.357	.444	.802	112.0	112.0	.354	0.8
1959	99	278	254	32	74	18	2	7	37	18	27	0	0	.291	.339	.461	.800	108.7	109.1	.352	0.8
1960	67	123	110	13	24	4	1	2	16	13	21	1	0	.218	.301	.327	.628	76.0	74.6	.291	-0.1
1961	99	157	144	13	36	9	2	1	23	10	20	2	0	.250	.293	.361	.654	75.6	78.6	.295	-0.1
1962	38	48	42	3	6	2	0	0	4	5	3	0	0	.143	.250	.190	.440	20.2	19.1	.222	-0.3

Career totals

1,904

326th-most career G

7,000

463rd-most career PA

6,296

443rd-most career AB

789

1,700

484th-most career H

276

362nd-most career 3B

RBI

729

594

551

101

.2700

OBP

.3335

SLG

.3767

OPS

.7102

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
1953-08-26	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	1	2	0	10
1952-07-17	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	3	1	8
1955-08-23	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1950-07-15	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1958-07-06	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-15	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-16	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-17	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-22	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.