Dell Alston
New York Yankees 1977–1978; Oakland Athletics 1978; Cleveland Indians 1979–1980
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 22 | 45 | 40 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | .325 | .364 | .500 | .864 | 135.8 | 136.2 | .380 | 0.2 |
| 1978 | 61 | 191 | 176 | 17 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 23 | 11 | 10 | .205 | .246 | .233 | .479 | 35.0 | 38.7 | .228 | -1.2 |
| 1979 | 54 | 74 | 62 | 10 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 4 | .290 | .384 | .403 | .787 | 114.6 | 112.5 | .358 | 0.2 |
| 1980 | 52 | 64 | 54 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | .222 | .302 | .315 | .616 | 59.5 | 68.7 | .274 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-07-15 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1977-07-13 | NYY @ MIL Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1978-08-12 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1978-08-19 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1980-06-22 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
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.