Davey Lopes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornMay 3, 1945 · East Providence, RI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1972

Final gameOctober 4, 1987

Seasons16 (1972–1987)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1972–1981; Oakland Athletics 1982–1983; Chicago Cubs 1984; Oakland Athletics 1984; Chicago Cubs 1985–1986; Houston Astros 1986–1987

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified batters

147

46.2

561

26.2

494

23.8

27.7

137

37.7

0.8

46.9

59.2

RBI

46.2

67.7

72.3

55.4

.277

53.8

OBP

.341

52.3

SLG

.423

50.8

OPS

.764

52.3

wRC+

111.9

54.6

OPS+

114.2

57.7

wOBA

.339

43.1

sWAR

2.8

of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.3

64.2

OPS+

107.3

sWAR

36.5

97.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1972	11	49	42	6	9	4	0	0	1	7	6	4	0	.214	.327	.310	.636	93.3	85.1	.311	0.1
1973	142	615	535	77	147	13	5	6	37	62	77	36	16	.275	.352	.351	.703	104.5	101.4	.331	2.6
1974	145	613	530	95	141	26	3	10	35	66	71	59	18	.266	.350	.383	.733	114.9	111.2	.349	3.4
1975	155	726	618	108	162	24	6	8	41	91	93	77	12	.262	.358	.359	.717	111.8	105.7	.346	3.8
1976	117	491	427	72	103	17	7	4	20	56	49	63	10	.241	.333	.342	.675	101.3	96.0	.326	2.0
1977	134	589	502	85	142	19	5	11	53	73	69	47	12	.283	.372	.406	.779	116.4	111.7	.358	3.4
1978	151	665	587	93	163	25	4	17	58	71	70	45	4	.278	.355	.421	.776	123.3	118.3	.361	4.4
1979	153	692	582	109	154	20	6	28	73	97	88	44	4	.265	.372	.464	.836	134.4	129.5	.382	5.5
1980	141	625	553	79	139	15	3	10	49	58	71	23	7	.251	.321	.344	.665	91.3	88.3	.314	1.7
1981	58	243	214	35	44	2	0	5	17	22	35	20	2	.206	.289	.285	.574	69.4	67.3	.279	0.0
1982	128	496	450	58	109	19	3	11	42	40	51	28	12	.242	.304	.371	.675	88.0	87.9	.306	1.2
1983	147	561	494	64	137	13	4	17	67	51	61	22	4	.277	.341	.423	.764	111.9	114.2	.339	2.8
1984	88	290	247	37	63	12	1	9	36	37	41	15	0	.255	.351	.421	.772	120.8	117.5	.351	1.5
1985	99	325	275	52	78	11	0	11	44	46	37	47	4	.284	.383	.444	.826	128.2	120.9	.382	1.9
1986	96	304	255	49	70	10	3	7	35	43	25	25	8	.275	.381	.420	.800	126.2	117.8	.375	1.9
1987	47	56	43	4	10	2	0	1	6	13	8	2	1	.233	.411	.349	.760	115.0	108.7	.355	0.3

Career totals

1,812

401st-most career G

7,340

392nd-most career PA

6,354

430th-most career AB

1,023

332nd-most career R

1,671

232

155

RBI

614

833

241st-most career BB

852

557

26th-most career SB

.2630

OBP

.3489

SLG

.3884

OPS

.7373

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
1974-08-20	LAD @ CHC Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	3	4	0	15
1983-06-15	ATH @ TOR Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	1	7	0	9
1979-06-01	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	2	9
1986-04-20	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	0	3	2	8
1978-10-05	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	3	0	8

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

1× Gold Glove4× 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.