Don Bessent
Brooklyn Dodgers 1955–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 24 | 23 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | -65.3 | -46.9 | .091 | 1.4 |
| 1956 | 38 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .105 | .111 | .216 | -67.2 | -42.8 | .095 | 2.0 |
| 1957 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 21.8 | 31.7 | .226 | -0.4 |
| 1958 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 24 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 19 | 21 | 29 | 7 | 63.3 | 2.70 | 1.137 | 4.12 | 3.82 | 93.1 | 152.0 | 1.4 |
| 1956 | 38 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 22 | 31 | 52 | 5 | 79.3 | 2.50 | 1.185 | 5.90 | 2.91 | 73.8 | 158.1 | 2.0 |
| 1957 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 28 | 19 | 24 | 5 | 44.0 | 5.73 | 1.750 | 4.91 | 4.19 | 102.3 | 71.6 | -0.4 |
| 1958 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 24.3 | 3.33 | 1.685 | 4.81 | 5.26 | 126.0 | 125.4 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-07-17 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956-10-05 | NYY @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1955-07-24 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956-07-29 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1956-09-30 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-08-23 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 6.1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1955-07-21 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 1956-08-16 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1956-10-05 | NYY @ LAD Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1956-06-19 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 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.