Dave Rader
San Francisco Giants 1971–1976; St. Louis Cardinals 1977; Chicago Cubs 1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1979; Boston Red Sox 1980
Percentile snapshot
1973 season — qualified batters
of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1972 | 133 | 494 | 459 | 44 | 119 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 41 | 29 | 31 | 1 | 2 | .259 | .306 | .333 | .640 | 79.1 | 81.1 | .298 | 1.6 |
| 1973 | 148 | 540 | 462 | 59 | 106 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 41 | 63 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .326 | .338 | .664 | 73.6 | 81.6 | .298 | 1.4 |
| 1974 | 113 | 361 | 323 | 26 | 94 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 31 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .291 | .351 | .362 | .713 | 93.6 | 96.6 | .331 | 1.9 |
| 1975 | 98 | 328 | 292 | 39 | 85 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 1 | 0 | .291 | .360 | .394 | .754 | 100.4 | 105.9 | .342 | 1.9 |
| 1976 | 88 | 284 | 255 | 25 | 67 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 27 | 21 | 2 | 0 | .263 | .332 | .333 | .665 | 83.0 | 87.6 | .308 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 66 | 129 | 114 | 15 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .263 | .310 | .368 | .678 | 82.5 | 83.2 | .308 | 0.5 |
| 1978 | 116 | 348 | 305 | 29 | 62 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 36 | 34 | 26 | 1 | 1 | .203 | .281 | .295 | .576 | 45.8 | 54.0 | .267 | -0.1 |
| 1979 | 31 | 62 | 54 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .204 | .283 | .315 | .598 | 63.7 | 62.0 | .284 | 0.2 |
| 1980 | 50 | 152 | 137 | 14 | 45 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | .328 | .388 | .474 | .863 | 135.1 | 131.6 | .389 | 1.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-06-27 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1977-05-15 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1975-06-22 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 1978-05-20 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1980-05-09 | KC @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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.