Del Unser

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 9, 1944 · Decatur, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1968

Final gameJune 6, 1982

Seasons15 (1968–1982)

Washington Senators 1968–1971; Cleveland Indians 1972; Philadelphia Phillies 1973–1974; New York Mets 1975; Montreal Expos 1976; New York Mets 1976; Montreal Expos 1977–1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1979–1982

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified batters

146

40.7

543

14.4

496

24.6

113

7.6

48.3

55.9

RBI

12.7

13.6

28.8

39.8

38.1

.228

4.2

OBP

.269

0.8

SLG

.355

32.2

OPS

.624

15.3

wRC+

74.0

9.3

OPS+

78.4

13.6

wOBA

.289

8.5

sWAR

-0.1

1.7

of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.6

25.8

OPS+

92.2

26.6

sWAR

11.7

88.5

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
1968	156	690	635	66	146	13	7	1	30	46	66	11	6	.230	.282	.277	.560	70.8	72.2	.268	0.3
1969	153	649	581	69	166	19	8	7	57	58	54	8	10	.286	.349	.382	.731	110.9	108.7	.342	3.3
1970	119	358	322	37	83	5	1	5	30	30	29	1	1	.258	.319	.326	.645	81.7	82.3	.301	0.2
1971	153	648	581	63	148	19	6	9	41	59	68	11	6	.255	.325	.355	.679	92.1	93.8	.315	1.3
1972	132	422	383	29	91	12	0	1	17	28	46	5	9	.238	.288	.277	.565	60.9	66.6	.269	-0.5
1973	136	498	440	64	127	20	4	11	52	47	55	5	8	.289	.354	.427	.781	113.3	113.2	.355	2.7
1974	142	516	454	72	120	18	5	11	61	50	62	6	4	.264	.337	.399	.736	101.0	102.4	.341	2.0
1975	147	580	531	65	156	18	2	10	53	37	76	4	3	.294	.337	.392	.729	106.0	107.4	.338	2.6
1976	146	543	496	57	113	19	4	12	40	29	84	7	7	.228	.269	.355	.624	74.0	78.4	.289	-0.1
1977	113	331	289	33	79	14	1	12	40	33	41	2	5	.273	.346	.453	.799	111.8	114.4	.353	1.2
1978	130	206	179	16	35	5	0	2	15	24	29	2	0	.196	.293	.257	.550	53.6	56.7	.261	-1.2
1979	95	159	141	26	42	8	0	6	29	14	33	2	0	.298	.354	.482	.837	123.7	124.6	.372	0.7
1980	96	123	110	15	29	6	4	0	10	10	21	0	1	.264	.320	.391	.711	93.6	94.6	.325	0.0
1981	62	73	59	5	9	3	0	0	6	13	9	0	0	.153	.301	.203	.505	49.9	44.3	.261	-0.4
1982	19	17	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	.000	.176	.000	.176	-61.6	-46.4	.094	-0.3

Career totals

1,799

413th-most career G

5,813

5,215

617

1,344

179

RBI

481

675

.2577

OBP

.3191

SLG

.3582

OPS

.6773

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	TB
1971-07-05	TEX @ CLE Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	1	4	9
1976-07-22	ATL @ WSH Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	1	9
1968-08-20	TEX @ ATH Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	1	1	8
1973-06-26	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	4	7
1970-06-13	TEX @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	2	7

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.