Dave Tomlin

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornJune 22, 1949 · Maysville, KY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1972

Final gameAugust 19, 1986

Seasons13 (1972–1986)

Cincinnati Reds 1972–1973; San Diego Padres 1974–1977; Cincinnati Reds 1978–1980; Montreal Expos 1982; Pittsburgh Pirates 1983; Pittsburgh Pirates 1985; Montreal Expos 1986

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

3.3

74.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1972	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1973	16	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1974	47	5	4	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-20.9	-39.4	.153	0.0
1975	67	9	5	1	1	0	2	1	.200	.429	.200	.629	115.2	83.2	.353	1.1
1976	49	9	8	2	0	0	1	2	.000	.111	.000	.111	-64.4	-65.2	.084	1.1
1977	76	8	7	1	2	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	57.9	60.8	.262	1.7
1978	57	5	5	0	1	1	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	0.8	12.7	.187	-1.1
1979	53	2	2	1	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	187.6	174.5	.464	1.4
1980	27	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	396.1	—	.753	-0.3
1982	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1983	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1985	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1986	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1972	3	0	0	0	0	7	4	1	2	2	4.0	9.00	2.000	4.50	8.78	269.1	36.2	-0.2
1973	16	0	1	2	1	24	15	15	20	5	27.7	4.88	1.410	6.51	5.08	145.9	71.3	-0.2
1974	47	0	2	0	2	59	28	30	29	4	58.0	4.34	1.534	4.50	4.14	116.8	81.5	0.0
1975	67	0	4	2	1	87	30	31	48	5	83.0	3.25	1.422	5.20	3.44	98.3	107.4	1.1
1976	49	1	0	1	0	62	23	20	43	4	73.0	2.84	1.123	5.30	3.04	92.2	116.4	1.1
1977	76	0	4	4	3	98	34	32	55	3	101.7	3.01	1.279	4.87	3.04	84.2	119.9	1.7
1978	57	0	9	1	4	88	40	30	32	3	62.3	5.78	1.893	4.62	3.81	106.7	61.8	-1.1
1979	53	0	2	2	1	59	17	18	30	3	58.3	2.62	1.320	4.63	3.31	88.3	143.0	1.4
1980	27	0	3	0	0	38	16	11	6	2	26.0	5.54	1.885	2.08	4.55	126.6	64.9	-0.3
1982	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	2.0	4.50	1.000	9.00	2.25	61.5	81.2	0.0
1983	5	0	0	0	0	6	3	1	5	0	4.0	6.75	1.750	11.25	0.92	24.9	54.8	-0.1
1985	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	0.00	2.000	0.00	5.62	157.0	—	0.1
1986	7	0	0	0	0	13	6	7	6	1	10.3	5.23	1.935	5.23	5.17	139.6	70.8	-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

409

RBI

.1471

OBP

.2564

SLG

.1471

OPS

.4035

Pitching

G (P)

409

SHO

511

SO (P)

278

BB allowed

198

ERA

3.819

WHIP

1.4492

K/9

4.89

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	RBI	TB
1978-07-09	SF @ CIN Gameday	1	0	1	1	1
1975-07-31	SD @ HOU Gameday	1	1	1	0	1
1977-05-05	PHI @ SD Gameday	1	0	1	0	1
1977-06-16	CHC @ SD Gameday	1	1	1	0	1
1979-07-21	CIN @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1976-07-30	SD @ CIN Gameday	4.0	2	0	0	0	5
1974-05-26	CIN @ SD Gameday	3.0	3	1	1	2	5
1975-09-24	LAD @ SD Gameday	3.0	2	1	0	0	5
1975-08-02	ATL @ SD Gameday	4.0	3	1	1	1	4
1975-06-23	SF @ SD Gameday	5.2	1	0	0	1	3

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.