Dave Robertson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 186 lb

BornSeptember 25, 1889 · Portsmouth, VA, USA

MLB debutJune 5, 1912

Final gameSeptember 27, 1922

Seasons9 (1912–1922)

New York Giants 1912; New York Giants 1914–1917; Chicago Cubs 1919; New York Giants 1919; Chicago Cubs 1920–1921; Pittsburgh Pirates 1921; New York Giants 1922

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

134

52.1

555

51.4

500

57.7

59.9

150

59.9

79.6

75.4

89.4

RBI

81.7

62.7

16.9

2.1

.300

61.3

OBP

.353

52.8

SLG

.462

82.4

OPS

.815

78.2

wRC+

131.4

78.2

OPS+

130.9

76.1

wOBA

.378

69.7

sWAR

3.2

78.9

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.4

88.3

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1912	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	175.6	174.3	.473	0.0
1914	82	275	256	25	68	12	3	2	32	10	26	9	0	.266	.299	.359	.658	94.2	98.8	.313	0.3
1915	141	584	544	72	160	17	10	3	58	22	52	22	10	.294	.326	.379	.705	115.5	118.3	.334	2.3
1916	150	620	587	88	180	18	8	12	69	14	56	21	17	.307	.326	.426	.752	132.2	134.8	.350	3.6
1917	142	560	532	64	138	16	9	12	54	10	47	17	0	.259	.276	.391	.667	101.6	107.8	.310	1.2
1919	28	98	96	8	20	2	0	1	10	1	10	3	0	.208	.224	.260	.485	37.1	46.5	.229	-0.4
1920	134	555	500	68	150	29	11	10	75	40	44	17	23	.300	.353	.462	.815	131.4	130.9	.378	3.2
1921	82	290	266	36	82	21	3	6	62	13	19	4	7	.308	.345	.477	.823	113.1	115.0	.370	1.2
1922	42	50	47	5	13	2	0	1	3	3	7	0	0	.277	.320	.383	.703	79.7	81.5	.324	0.0

Career totals

804

3,034

2,830

366

812

117

RBI

364

113

262

.2869

486th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3178

SLG

.4092

OPS

.7270

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	TB
1921-08-30	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	3	10
1921-08-19	PIT @ PHI Gameday	6	2	3	1	0	2	8	10
1920-09-14	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	4	5	2	1	0	2	9
1920-06-29	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	4	8
1915-09-19	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-13	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-16	SF @ ATL 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.