Dave Rucker
Detroit Tigers 1981–1983; St. Louis Cardinals 1983–1984; Philadelphia Phillies 1985–1986; Pittsburgh Pirates 1988
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1982 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 |
| 1983 | 38 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1984 | 50 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -32.0 | -18.1 | .133 | 2.0 |
| 1985 | 41 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .385 | .417 | .801 | 129.2 | 122.1 | .374 | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4.0 | 6.75 | 1.000 | 4.50 | 3.04 | 81.2 | 55.5 | -0.1 |
| 1982 | 27 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 24 | 23 | 31 | 4 | 64.0 | 3.38 | 1.328 | 4.36 | 3.71 | 91.9 | 119.5 | 1.1 |
| 1983 | 38 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 27 | 26 | 28 | 3 | 46.0 | 5.28 | 1.739 | 5.48 | 4.16 | 111.4 | 69.9 | -0.4 |
| 1984 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 17 | 34 | 38 | 0 | 73.0 | 2.10 | 1.315 | 4.68 | 3.19 | 91.1 | 167.0 | 2.0 |
| 1985 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 38 | 40 | 41 | 6 | 79.3 | 4.31 | 1.550 | 4.65 | 4.16 | 112.7 | 85.6 | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 25.0 | 5.76 | 1.920 | 5.04 | 5.39 | 140.2 | 66.7 | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 28.3 | 4.76 | 1.694 | 5.08 | 3.45 | 100.9 | 71.8 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-06-11 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1984-08-02 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-06-21 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-10-04 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1983-07-09 | STL @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-09-04 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982-07-19 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 3.2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 1985-08-25 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985-10-04 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 6.0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982-10-02 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 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.