MLB / Players

Doug DeCinces

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 29, 1950 · Burbank, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1973

Final gameOctober 4, 1987

Seasons15 (1973–1987)

Baltimore Orioles 1973–1981; California Angels 1982–1987; St. Louis Cardinals 1987

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified batters

137

19.5

539

15.8

462

9.8

19.5

108

34.6

36.1

RBI

25.6

63.9

42.9

20.3

56.4

.234

0.8

OBP

.335

38.3

SLG

.392

OPS

.727

21.1

wRC+

96.2

27.1

OPS+

95.3

26.3

wOBA

.324

23.3

sWAR

1.7

29.3

of 134 qualified 1987 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.9

69.5

OPS+

115.5

72.4

sWAR

36.1

97.4

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
1973	10	19	18	2	2	0	0	0	3	1	5	0	0	.111	.158	.111	.269	-30.3	-21.9	.137	-0.2
1974	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	141.7	58.3	.376	0.0
1975	61	183	167	20	42	6	3	4	23	13	32	0	1	.251	.306	.395	.701	99.9	104.1	.319	0.8
1976	129	475	440	36	103	17	2	11	42	29	68	8	4	.234	.284	.357	.641	92.0	93.6	.300	1.4
1977	150	593	522	63	135	28	3	19	69	64	86	8	8	.259	.339	.433	.772	115.2	116.0	.344	3.4
1978	142	561	511	72	146	37	1	28	80	46	81	7	7	.286	.346	.526	.872	150.1	150.7	.389	5.6
1979	120	484	422	67	97	27	1	16	61	54	68	5	3	.230	.318	.412	.731	99.1	100.4	.327	1.8
1980	145	549	489	64	122	23	2	16	64	49	83	11	6	.249	.319	.403	.722	98.4	99.3	.326	2.0
1981	100	391	346	49	91	23	2	13	55	41	32	0	3	.263	.341	.454	.795	131.0	129.3	.363	3.0
1982	153	655	575	94	173	42	5	30	97	66	80	7	5	.301	.369	.548	.916	148.0	149.4	.397	6.3
1983	95	411	370	49	104	19	3	18	65	32	56	2	0	.281	.332	.495	.826	123.7	125.9	.361	2.6
1984	146	612	547	77	147	23	3	20	82	53	79	4	1	.269	.327	.431	.758	107.7	109.4	.336	2.9
1985	120	488	427	50	104	22	1	20	78	47	71	1	4	.244	.317	.440	.757	100.4	106.5	.326	1.8
1986	140	572	512	69	131	20	3	26	96	52	74	2	2	.256	.325	.459	.784	111.1	112.5	.344	2.9
1987	137	539	462	66	108	25	0	16	64	70	89	3	4	.234	.335	.392	.727	96.2	95.3	.324	1.7

Career totals

1,649

6,534

5,809

778

1,505

312

440th-most career 2B

237

290th-most career HR

RBI

879

427th-most career RBI

618

904

.2591

OBP

.3292

SLG

.4452

OPS

.7744

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1982-08-03	MIN @ LAA Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	4	0	12
1982-08-08	LAA @ SEA Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	4	0	12
1982-07-05	BAL @ LAA Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	1	0	9
1981-05-23	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	4	0	9
1982-09-22	KC @ LAA Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	4	1	9

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× Silver Slugger1× 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.