Dean Chance

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornJune 1, 1941 · Wooster, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1961

Final gameAugust 9, 1971

Seasons11 (1961–1971)

Los Angeles Angels 1961–1964; California Angels 1965–1966; Minnesota Twins 1967–1969; Cleveland Indians 1970; New York Mets 1970; Detroit Tigers 1971

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified pitchers

98.7

97.3

70.7

6.7

70.7

85.3

SHO

85.3

224

234

93.3

292.0

94.7

ERA

2.53

70.7

WHIP

.983

93.3

K/9

7.21

FIP

2.04

97.3

FIP-

66.0

98.7

ERA+

122.1

78.7

sWAR

4.4

77.3

of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

118.6

88.1

sWAR

31.6

96.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1961	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.8	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1962	50	75	65	1	4	0	1	3	29	.062	.103	.062	.164	-70.2	-54.7	.086	4.1
1963	45	89	80	5	12	1	3	2	38	.150	.171	.163	.333	-13.1	-3.1	.156	3.0
1964	46	100	89	3	7	0	0	3	53	.079	.109	.079	.187	-58.4	-44.7	.093	8.0
1965	36	85	75	3	7	1	5	5	56	.093	.150	.107	.257	-30.1	-23.6	.132	2.4
1966	41	88	76	1	2	0	0	3	54	.026	.075	.026	.101	-83.0	-68.9	.060	2.7
1967	41	108	92	2	3	0	0	7	58	.033	.119	.033	.151	-68.0	-54.4	.094	4.7
1968	43	106	93	0	5	0	3	3	63	.054	.093	.054	.147	-81.8	-55.3	.079	4.4
1969	20	32	24	1	1	0	1	2	19	.042	.148	.042	.190	-48.6	-44.6	.118	1.5
1970	48	49	42	1	3	0	3	2	32	.071	.111	.071	.183	-69.2	-49.6	.095	0.4
1971	31	22	21	0	0	0	0	0	16	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.3	-100.0	.000	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1961	5	4	0	2	0	0	0	33	14	5	11	0	18.3	6.87	2.073	5.40	2.29	54.0	61.6	-0.4
1962	50	24	14	10	8	6	2	195	68	66	127	14	206.7	2.96	1.263	5.53	3.20	79.2	136.3	4.1
1963	45	35	13	18	3	6	2	229	88	90	168	10	248.0	3.19	1.286	6.10	2.84	82.5	107.7	3.0
1964	46	35	20	9	4	15	11	194	51	86	207	7	278.3	1.65	1.006	6.69	2.25	66.6	204.8	8.0
1965	36	33	15	10	0	10	4	197	79	101	164	12	225.7	3.15	1.321	6.54	3.10	94.1	104.5	2.4
1966	41	37	12	17	1	11	2	206	89	114	180	18	259.7	3.08	1.232	6.24	3.35	99.9	108.6	2.7
1967	41	39	20	14	1	18	5	244	86	68	220	17	283.7	2.73	1.100	6.98	2.44	71.1	125.8	4.7
1968	43	39	16	16	1	15	6	224	82	63	234	15	292.0	2.53	.983	7.21	2.04	66.0	122.1	4.4
1969	20	15	5	4	0	1	0	76	29	35	50	6	88.3	2.95	1.257	5.09	3.44	94.1	123.6	1.5
1970	48	19	9	9	5	1	1	175	76	61	109	18	157.0	4.36	1.503	6.25	3.82	98.0	89.3	0.4
1971	31	14	4	6	0	0	0	91	35	50	64	5	89.7	3.51	1.572	6.42	3.46	98.3	100.3	0.6

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

406

759

662

RBI

420

.0665

OBP

.1132

SLG

.0695

OPS

.1827

Pitching

G (P)

406

294

376th-most career GS

128

390th-most career W

115

392nd-most career L

SHO

88th-most career SHO

2,147

376th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,534

220th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

739

321st-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.921

152nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2122

199th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.43

294th-highest career K/9

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
1963-07-17	CLE @ LAA Gameday	4	0	2	1	2	3
1970-07-29	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	2
1964-08-25	LAA @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
1965-08-18	LAA @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	2
1965-08-22	MIN @ LAA Gameday	4	1	1	0	2	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-06-02	BOS @ LAA Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	4	15	0
1965-09-04	ATH @ LAA Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	14	0
1967-09-20	ATH @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	1	13	1
1964-06-06	NYY @ LAA Gameday	14.0	3	0	0	2	12	0
1963-07-29	LAA @ CLE Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	3	12	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.

Honors

1× Cy Young Award2× 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.