Dave Pope
Homestead Grays 1946; Cleveland Indians 1952; Cleveland Indians 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Cleveland Indians 1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Cleveland Indians 1956
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1952 | 12 | 35 | 34 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .294 | .314 | .471 | .785 | 117.8 | 124.5 | .355 | 0.1 |
| 1954 | 60 | 114 | 102 | 21 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 22 | 2 | 1 | .294 | .354 | .451 | .805 | 120.8 | 121.5 | .369 | 0.5 |
| 1955 | 121 | 363 | 326 | 38 | 86 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 52 | 28 | 65 | 5 | 2 | .264 | .325 | .393 | .718 | 93.6 | 96.8 | .331 | 0.6 |
| 1956 | 37 | 93 | 89 | 7 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .239 | .281 | .520 | 29.1 | 37.5 | .239 | -0.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-09-26 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 1955-05-10 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1955-06-02 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-09-27 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-08-13 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-04-28 | HOM @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-05-05 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-05-05 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-05-09 | BEG @ HOM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-05-10 | BEG @ HOM 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.