Dave Tobik
Detroit Tigers 1978–1982; Texas Rangers 1983–1984; Seattle Mariners 1985
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.7 |
| 1980 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.7 |
| 1981 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.4 |
| 1982 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.5 |
| 1983 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 1984 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 12.0 | 3.75 | 1.250 | 8.25 | 2.55 | 66.3 | 102.6 | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 37 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 33 | 25 | 48 | 12 | 68.7 | 4.33 | 1.223 | 6.29 | 4.73 | 109.5 | 99.9 | 0.7 |
| 1980 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 27 | 21 | 34 | 7 | 61.0 | 3.98 | 1.344 | 5.02 | 4.17 | 102.0 | 102.5 | 0.7 |
| 1981 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 18 | 33 | 32 | 7 | 60.3 | 2.69 | 1.326 | 4.77 | 4.63 | 123.6 | 139.5 | 1.4 |
| 1982 | 51 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 39 | 38 | 63 | 8 | 98.7 | 3.56 | 1.257 | 5.75 | 3.65 | 90.5 | 113.4 | 1.5 |
| 1983 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 18 | 13 | 30 | 2 | 44.0 | 3.68 | 1.114 | 6.14 | 2.94 | 73.5 | 108.6 | 0.6 |
| 1984 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 17 | 17 | 30 | 5 | 42.3 | 3.61 | 1.441 | 6.38 | 4.14 | 101.0 | 113.4 | 0.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 9.0 | 6.00 | 1.444 | 8.00 | 4.85 | 115.7 | 69.9 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-04-26 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-09-08 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 1982-04-16 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 5.2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979-05-26 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 3.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979-07-04 | TOR @ DET Gameday | 3.1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| 1982-06-09 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 8.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 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.