Dave Righetti

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 28, 1958 · San Jose, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1979

Final gameSeptember 18, 1995

Seasons16 (1979–1995)

New York Yankees 1979; New York Yankees 1981–1990; San Francisco Giants 1991–1993; Oakland Athletics 1994; Toronto Blue Jays 1994; Chicago White Sox 1995

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified pitchers

19.5

40.2

63.2

83.9

SHO

51.7

194

65.5

58.6

52.9

169

90.8

86.2

217.0

59.8

ERA

3.44

66.7

WHIP

1.203

82.8

K/9

7.01

90.8

FIP

2.94

93.1

FIP-

74.7

97.7

ERA+

114.4

70.1

sWAR

3.4

75.9

of 88 qualified 1983 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.0

80.5

sWAR

21.7

94.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	H	RBI	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1979	3	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1981	15	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1982	33	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1983	31	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.4
1984	64	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1985	74	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1986	74	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
1987	60	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
1988	60	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1989	55	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1990	53	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1991	61	4	3	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.5	-100.0	.000	0.9
1992	54	11	7	1	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.286	-34.8	-16.7	.133	-0.9
1993	51	1	1	1	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	484.9	449.3	.914	-0.5
1994	20	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.9
1995	10	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	10	7	10	13	2	17.3	3.63	1.154	6.75	4.50	109.4	113.1	0.3
1981	15	15	8	4	0	2	0	75	24	38	89	1	105.3	2.05	1.073	7.60	2.06	57.3	174.9	3.0
1982	33	27	11	10	1	4	0	155	77	108	163	11	183.0	3.79	1.437	8.02	3.56	88.9	105.6	2.3
1983	31	31	14	8	0	7	2	194	83	67	169	12	217.0	3.44	1.203	7.01	2.94	74.7	114.4	3.4
1984	64	0	5	6	31	0	0	79	25	37	90	5	96.3	2.34	1.204	8.41	2.71	70.4	164.6	2.6
1985	74	0	12	7	29	0	0	96	33	45	92	5	107.0	2.78	1.318	7.74	2.89	71.6	145.5	2.6
1986	74	0	8	8	46	0	0	88	29	35	83	4	106.7	2.45	1.153	7.00	2.76	67.2	168.2	3.1
1987	60	0	8	6	31	0	0	95	37	44	77	9	95.0	3.51	1.463	7.29	3.94	89.2	126.0	1.9
1988	60	0	5	4	25	0	0	86	34	37	70	5	87.0	3.52	1.414	7.24	3.27	82.7	112.4	1.3
1989	55	0	2	6	25	0	0	73	23	26	51	3	69.0	3.00	1.435	6.65	3.11	80.2	129.3	1.4
1990	53	0	1	1	36	0	0	48	21	26	43	8	53.0	3.57	1.396	7.30	4.73	119.4	111.1	0.8
1991	61	0	2	7	24	0	0	64	27	28	51	4	71.7	3.39	1.284	6.40	3.39	94.3	106.1	0.9
1992	54	4	2	7	3	0	0	79	44	36	47	4	78.3	5.06	1.468	5.40	3.62	107.7	66.4	-0.9
1993	51	0	1	1	1	0	0	58	30	17	31	11	47.3	5.70	1.585	5.89	5.83	149.2	68.5	-0.5
1994	20	0	0	1	0	0	0	22	23	19	14	5	20.3	10.18	2.016	6.20	7.97	171.0	46.3	-0.9
1995	10	9	3	2	0	0	0	65	23	18	29	6	49.3	4.20	1.682	5.29	4.64	102.7	107.7	0.7

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

718

RBI

.1818

OBP

.1818

SLG

.1818

OPS

.3636

Pitching

G (P)

718

105th-most career G (P)

252

40th-most career SV

SHO

1,404

SO (P)

1,112

472nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

591

ERA

3.462

417th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3379

K/9

7.13

191st-highest career K/9

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	H	RBI	TB
1993-06-24	COL @ SF Gameday	1	1	1	1
1992-08-08	SF @ CIN Gameday	1	1	0	1
1981-10-23	NYY @ LAD Gameday	1	0	0	0
1987-09-22	NYY @ MIL Gameday	0	0	0	0
1989-06-25	NYY @ KC Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1983-08-15	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	5	11
1981-09-11	BOS @ NYY Gameday	7.0	2	1	1	5	11
1983-09-01	NYY @ ATH Gameday	8.0	4	2	2	5	10
1981-10-08	NYY @ MIL Gameday	6.0	4	0	0	2	10
1983-07-04	BOS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	4	9

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× Rookie of the Year2× 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.