David West
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.500 | 2.500 | 682.6 | 629.1 | 1.130 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 21 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 9.5 | 18.1 | .186 | -1.7 |
| 1990 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1991 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.7 |
| 1993 | 76 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .600 | 1.000 | 170.6 | 165.7 | .442 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 31 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .071 | .071 | .143 | -83.8 | -62.7 | .065 | 1.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .500 | .722 | 78.9 | 83.9 | .308 | 0.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .444 | .286 | .730 | 117.0 | 98.1 | .367 | 0.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6.0 | 3.00 | 1.500 | 4.50 | 3.21 | 97.6 | 109.6 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 48 | 33 | 50 | 9 | 63.7 | 6.79 | 1.665 | 7.07 | 4.74 | 126.5 | 56.1 | -1.7 |
| 1990 | 29 | 27 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 142 | 83 | 78 | 92 | 21 | 146.3 | 5.10 | 1.503 | 5.66 | 5.10 | 123.7 | 80.7 | -0.2 |
| 1991 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 36 | 28 | 52 | 13 | 71.3 | 4.54 | 1.318 | 6.56 | 5.04 | 119.1 | 93.2 | 0.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 28.3 | 6.99 | 1.835 | 6.04 | 5.05 | 125.1 | 57.7 | -0.7 |
| 1993 | 76 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 28 | 51 | 87 | 6 | 86.3 | 2.92 | 1.286 | 9.07 | 3.81 | 95.1 | 137.2 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 31 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 39 | 61 | 83 | 7 | 99.0 | 3.55 | 1.364 | 7.55 | 4.19 | 97.9 | 120.7 | 1.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 16 | 19 | 25 | 5 | 38.0 | 3.79 | 1.395 | 5.92 | 5.04 | 120.2 | 110.7 | 0.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 15 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 28.3 | 4.76 | 1.482 | 6.99 | 2.71 | 63.6 | 89.3 | 0.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2.0 | 27.00 | 7.000 | 18.00 | 16.22 | 346.3 | 17.3 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995-07-06 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1988-09-24 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1993-05-23 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1989-07-06 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1993-05-17 | PHI @ MIA Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-06-23 | KC @ MIN Gameday | 7.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1990-07-13 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 6.1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1991-07-24 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 5.2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1994-06-03 | PHI @ HOU Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 1994-08-05 | WSH @ PHI Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 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.