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Dave Stieb

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 22, 1957 · Santa Ana, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 29, 1979

Final gameSeptember 25, 1998

Seasons16 (1979–1998)

Toronto Blue Jays 1979–1992; Chicago White Sox 1993; Toronto Blue Jays 1998

Percentile snapshot

1990 season — qualified pitchers

62.2

87.8

89.2

9.5

SHO

58.1

179

71.6

79.7

58.1

125

48.6

83.8

208.7

59.5

ERA

2.93

83.8

WHIP

1.165

K/9

5.39

40.5

FIP

3.36

68.9

FIP-

85.5

79.7

ERA+

133.9

87.8

sWAR

4.5

86.5

of 75 qualified 1990 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

120.6

90.2

sWAR

52.2

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	R	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1979	20	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1980	36	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.1	-100.0	.000	3.7
1981	29	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.2
1982	38	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6.5
1983	36	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6.6
1984	35	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6.5
1985	36	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	7.8
1986	38	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1987	34	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1988	33	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
1989	33	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.2
1990	33	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.5
1991	9	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1992	21	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1993	4	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1998	19	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.5	-100.0	.000	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	18	18	8	8	0	7	1	139	62	48	52	11	129.3	4.31	1.446	3.62	4.27	99.0	100.1	1.3
1980	34	32	12	15	0	14	4	232	100	83	108	12	242.7	3.71	1.298	4.01	3.61	86.2	113.0	3.7
1981	25	25	11	10	0	11	2	148	65	61	89	10	183.7	3.19	1.138	4.36	3.45	90.3	120.1	3.2
1982	38	38	17	14	0	19	5	271	104	75	141	27	288.3	3.25	1.200	4.40	3.76	86.1	134.5	6.5
1983	36	36	17	12	0	14	4	223	94	93	187	21	278.0	3.04	1.137	6.05	3.62	85.0	139.9	6.6
1984	35	35	16	8	0	11	2	215	84	88	198	19	267.0	2.83	1.135	6.67	3.30	81.0	144.0	6.5
1985	36	36	14	13	0	8	2	206	73	96	167	22	265.0	2.48	1.140	5.67	3.75	89.3	169.3	7.8
1986	37	34	7	12	1	1	1	239	108	87	127	29	205.0	4.74	1.590	5.58	4.89	115.9	88.9	0.8
1987	33	31	13	9	0	3	1	164	84	87	115	16	185.0	4.09	1.357	5.59	4.28	95.0	110.3	2.7
1988	32	31	16	8	0	8	4	157	70	79	147	15	207.3	3.04	1.138	6.38	3.68	94.6	127.9	4.1
1989	33	33	17	8	0	3	2	164	77	76	101	12	206.7	3.35	1.161	4.40	3.92	102.5	114.1	3.2
1990	33	33	18	6	0	2	2	179	68	64	125	11	208.7	2.93	1.165	5.39	3.36	85.5	133.9	4.5
1991	9	9	4	3	0	1	0	52	21	23	29	4	59.7	3.17	1.257	4.37	4.07	97.2	132.0	1.3
1992	21	14	4	6	0	1	0	98	54	43	45	9	96.3	5.04	1.464	4.20	4.53	111.9	80.3	-0.2
1993	4	4	1	3	0	0	0	27	15	14	11	1	22.3	6.04	1.836	4.43	4.48	106.3	69.7	-0.2
1998	19	3	1	2	2	0	0	58	27	17	27	6	50.3	4.83	1.490	4.83	5.01	108.1	96.0	0.4

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

454

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

443

412

122nd-most career GS

176

175th-most career W

137

231st-most career L

103

397th-most career CG

SHO

111th-most career SHO

2,895

157th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,669

173rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,034

103rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.438

395th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2455

320th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.19

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
1979-09-01	SEA @ TOR Gameday	0
1979-09-03	TOR @ BAL Gameday	0
1980-08-01	LAA @ TOR Gameday	0
1980-08-28	MIN @ TOR Gameday	1
1981-04-18	DET @ TOR Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1988-08-22	CWS @ TOR Gameday	9.0	5	3	1	1	12	0
1983-09-04	DET @ TOR Gameday	10.0	8	3	3	5	11	2
1984-08-26	TOR @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	11	1
1989-08-04	NYY @ TOR Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	0	11	0
1984-05-04	KC @ TOR Gameday	10.0	8	3	3	2	10	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.

Honors

7× 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.