Denny Walling

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornApril 17, 1954 · Neptune, NJ, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1975

Final gameApril 10, 1992

Seasons18 (1975–1992)

Oakland Athletics 1975–1976; Houston Astros 1977–1988; St. Louis Cardinals 1988–1990; Texas Rangers 1991; Houston Astros 1992

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

wRC+

108.3

OPS+

106.9

56.1

sWAR

11.1

88.1

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
1975	6	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	.125	.125	.250	.375	-7.5	5.8	.166	-0.1
1976	3	11	11	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.273	.273	.273	.545	58.4	64.0	.256	0.0
1977	6	23	21	1	6	0	1	0	6	2	4	0	1	.286	.348	.381	.729	108.2	104.0	.338	0.1
1978	120	280	247	30	62	11	3	3	36	30	24	9	2	.251	.332	.356	.688	102.0	100.2	.323	0.6
1979	82	165	147	21	48	8	4	3	31	17	21	3	2	.327	.394	.497	.891	151.4	149.3	.402	1.4
1980	100	321	284	30	85	6	5	3	29	35	26	4	3	.299	.374	.387	.761	124.9	121.6	.355	1.4
1981	65	189	158	23	37	6	0	5	23	28	17	2	1	.234	.346	.367	.713	113.3	107.5	.341	0.5
1982	85	170	146	22	30	4	1	1	14	23	19	4	2	.205	.312	.267	.579	72.3	69.5	.279	-0.3
1983	100	152	135	24	40	5	3	3	19	15	16	2	2	.296	.364	.444	.809	132.8	130.3	.371	0.7
1984	87	268	249	37	70	11	5	3	31	16	28	7	1	.281	.325	.402	.726	109.0	110.1	.333	1.1
1985	119	374	345	44	93	20	1	7	45	25	26	5	2	.270	.316	.394	.710	100.4	101.2	.324	0.9
1986	130	422	382	54	119	23	1	13	58	36	31	1	1	.312	.367	.479	.846	136.5	136.1	.380	3.4
1987	110	370	325	45	92	21	4	5	33	39	37	5	1	.283	.356	.418	.774	112.2	109.2	.351	1.7
1988	84	252	234	22	56	13	2	1	21	17	25	2	0	.239	.291	.325	.616	77.3	79.8	.285	0.1
1989	69	93	79	9	24	7	0	1	11	14	12	0	0	.304	.409	.430	.839	144.5	138.1	.388	0.6
1990	78	137	127	7	28	5	0	1	19	8	15	0	0	.220	.265	.283	.548	49.8	51.5	.257	-0.6
1991	24	49	44	1	4	1	0	0	2	3	8	0	0	.091	.184	.114	.297	-14.1	-14.8	.159	-0.5
1992	3	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	92.1	93.0	.310	0.0

Career totals

1,271

3,287

2,945

372

799

142

RBI

380

308

316

.2713

OBP

.3386

SLG

.3898

OPS

.7284

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
1986-07-02	SD @ HOU Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	6	0	10
1986-08-05	HOU @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	2	0	10
1986-07-10	PHI @ HOU Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	0	1	1	6
1984-08-10	HOU @ CIN Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1987-05-27	PIT @ HOU Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	6

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.