MLB / Players

David West

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 6 in · 205 lb
BornSeptember 1, 1964 · Memphis, TN, USA
MLB debutSeptember 24, 1988
Final gameSeptember 4, 1998
Seasons10 (1988–1998)

New York Mets 1988; Minnesota Twins 1989; New York Mets 1989; Minnesota Twins 1990–1992; Philadelphia Phillies 1993–1996; Boston Red Sox 1998

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
2.1
70.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
198822212100000001.0001.0001.5002.500682.6629.11.1300.2
198921550100000200.200.200.200.4009.518.1.186-1.7
199029000000000000-0.2
1991150000000000000.5
19929000000000000-0.7
199376550210020200.400.400.6001.000170.6165.7.4422.0
199431292812000001200.071.071.071.143-83.8-62.7.0651.6
199581581100131400.125.222.500.72278.983.9.3080.6
199671170200002200.286.444.286.730117.098.1.3670.2
19986000000000000-0.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19882110000623306.03.001.5004.503.2197.6109.60.2
19892173400073483350963.76.791.6657.074.74126.556.1-1.7
199029277902014283789221146.35.101.5035.665.10123.780.7-0.2
1991151244000663628521371.34.541.3186.565.04119.193.20.5
1992931300032222019328.36.991.8356.045.05125.157.7-0.7
19937606430060285187686.32.921.2869.073.8195.1137.22.0
1994311441000074396183799.03.551.3647.554.1997.9120.71.6
1995883200034161925538.03.791.3955.925.04120.2110.70.6
1996762200031151122028.34.761.4826.992.7163.689.30.2
19986000000767412.027.007.00018.0016.22346.317.3-0.5

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

G
204
PA
67
AB
55
R
3
H
10
2B
2
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
5
BB
3
SO
22
SB
0
BA
.1818
OBP
.2241
SLG
.2727
OPS
.4968

Pitching

G (P)
204
GS
78
W
31
L
38
SV
3
CG
2
SHO
0
IP
569
SO (P)
437
BB allowed
311
ERA
4.663
WHIP
1.4684
K/9
6.91

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1995-07-06PHI @ PIT Gameday211001304
1988-09-24NYM @ STL Gameday212100003
1993-05-23WSH @ PHI Gameday101100202
1989-07-06CIN @ NYM Gameday101000001
1993-05-17PHI @ MIA Gameday101000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1990-06-23KC @ MIN Gameday7.1311490
1990-07-13MIN @ BAL Gameday6.1511480
1991-07-24MIN @ DET Gameday5.2633280
1994-06-03PHI @ HOU Gameday5.0332281
1994-08-05WSH @ PHI Gameday8.0442670

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.