MLB / Players

Dave Wickersham

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 188 lb

BornSeptember 27, 1935 · Erie, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1960

Final gameJuly 26, 1969

Seasons10 (1960–1969)

Kansas City Athletics 1960–1963; Detroit Tigers 1964–1967; Pittsburgh Pirates 1968; Kansas City Royals 1969

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

18.1

16.7

12.5

22.2

47.2

SHO

69.4

179

68.1

51.4

55.6

109

26.4

90.3

195.3

33.3

ERA

3.78

27.8

WHIP

1.229

44.4

K/9

5.02

33.3

FIP

3.19

66.7

FIP-

91.3

ERA+

92.4

23.6

sWAR

0.8

16.7

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.4

40.1

sWAR

9.3

86.1

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	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1960	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.0	-100.0	.000	0.3
1961	17	3	3	1	2	1	3	0	0	0	.667	.667	1.000	1.667	360.4	333.3	.735	0.1
1962	30	39	35	1	2	0	0	2	13	0	.057	.108	.057	.165	-71.8	-55.0	.089	0.8
1963	38	85	80	3	11	0	2	1	25	0	.138	.148	.138	.286	-41.3	-21.6	.133	1.3
1964	40	97	82	1	6	1	1	2	27	1	.073	.094	.085	.179	-71.6	-49.8	.086	2.6
1965	34	66	58	2	4	0	1	1	20	0	.069	.085	.069	.154	-76.4	-55.8	.075	0.8
1966	38	48	45	1	2	1	1	2	17	0	.044	.085	.067	.152	-73.7	-56.0	.078	1.6
1967	36	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.0	-100.0	.000	1.3
1968	11	4	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	103.5	102.4	.313	0.1
1969	34	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	43.8	0.3	.251	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1960	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	1	1	3	0	8.3	1.08	.600	3.24	2.04	51.4	368.0	0.3
1961	17	0	2	1	2	0	0	25	12	5	10	0	21.0	5.14	1.429	4.29	2.55	61.4	80.8	0.1
1962	30	9	11	4	1	3	0	105	51	43	61	13	110.0	4.17	1.345	4.99	4.33	103.6	100.2	0.8
1963	38	34	12	15	1	4	1	244	108	79	118	21	237.7	4.09	1.359	4.47	3.73	96.4	94.5	1.3
1964	40	36	19	12	1	11	1	224	97	81	164	28	254.0	3.44	1.201	5.81	3.70	100.8	106.8	2.6
1965	34	27	9	14	0	8	3	179	82	61	109	12	195.3	3.78	1.229	5.02	3.19	91.3	92.4	0.8
1966	38	14	8	3	1	3	0	139	50	54	93	14	140.7	3.20	1.372	5.95	3.73	106.5	109.4	1.6
1967	36	4	4	5	4	0	0	72	26	33	44	6	85.3	2.74	1.230	4.64	3.60	109.5	120.0	1.3
1968	11	0	1	0	1	0	0	21	8	13	9	0	20.7	3.48	1.645	3.92	3.56	120.6	84.8	0.1
1969	34	0	2	3	5	0	0	58	22	14	27	6	50.0	3.96	1.440	4.86	3.80	104.0	92.3	0.3

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

283

362

324

RBI

108

.0864

OBP

.1108

SLG

.0957

OPS

.2065

Pitching

G (P)

283

124

SHO

1,123

SO (P)

638

BB allowed

384

ERA

3.663

WHIP

1.2956

K/9

5.11

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	RBI	TB
1963-06-03	MIN @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
1961-04-29	CWS @ ATH Gameday	1	0	1	1	1	2
1966-06-13	TEX @ DET Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	2
1964-06-17	ATH @ DET Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2
1961-09-10	MIN @ ATH Gameday	2	1	1	0	2	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-05-10	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	3	2	0	4	11	0
1964-06-17	ATH @ DET Gameday	8.0	3	2	2	4	11	1
1966-06-13	TEX @ DET Gameday	8.0	6	3	3	3	11	2
1964-04-19	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	6	9	0
1966-07-03	ATH @ DET Gameday	7.0	4	2	2	3	9	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.