Doug Drabek

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 25, 1962 · Victoria, TX, USA

MLB debutMay 30, 1986

Final gameSeptember 25, 1998

Seasons13 (1986–1998)

New York Yankees 1986; Pittsburgh Pirates 1987–1992; Houston Astros 1993–1996; Chicago White Sox 1997; Baltimore Orioles 1998

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified pitchers

23.2

31.7

37.8

36.6

SHO

170

87.8

108

2.4

169.3

6.1

ERA

5.74

1.2

WHIP

1.411

K/9

4.52

3.7

FIP

5.74

1.2

FIP-

129.8

ERA+

77.0

2.4

sWAR

-0.7

2.4

of 83 qualified 1997 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.4

48.2

sWAR

29.8

96.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1987	30	70	59	2	7	1	0	0	4	2	24	0	.119	.159	.136	.294	-30.2	-21.1	.143	2.1
1988	33	84	76	4	13	3	2	0	5	1	25	0	.171	.203	.263	.466	27.5	33.9	.217	3.4
1989	40	87	77	1	8	1	0	0	3	3	14	1	.104	.148	.117	.265	-29.0	-21.7	.134	4.0
1990	33	96	84	8	18	2	0	1	6	4	25	0	.214	.258	.274	.532	48.9	49.7	.251	5.3
1991	36	89	84	6	15	1	0	0	2	1	28	0	.179	.188	.190	.379	-0.8	8.4	.176	3.9
1992	35	99	89	5	14	3	0	0	6	2	28	0	.157	.176	.191	.367	-9.8	4.5	.172	4.9
1993	34	82	71	2	6	2	0	1	3	2	22	0	.085	.110	.155	.265	-38.1	-28.6	.122	2.5
1994	24	65	58	4	14	0	1	0	6	0	10	0	.241	.262	.276	.538	41.0	44.7	.245	4.1
1995	33	70	60	4	14	3	0	0	8	2	17	0	.233	.258	.283	.541	45.1	47.6	.248	0.4
1996	32	63	56	5	10	1	0	0	3	0	12	0	.179	.179	.196	.375	-3.9	2.5	.169	0.5
1997	32	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.8	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1998	23	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.7	-100.0	.000	-2.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	27	21	7	8	0	0	126	60	50	76	13	131.7	4.10	1.337	5.19	4.13	100.3	100.4	1.3
1987	29	28	11	12	1	1	165	76	46	120	22	176.3	3.88	1.197	6.12	3.91	95.0	106.1	2.1
1988	33	32	15	7	3	1	194	75	50	127	21	219.3	3.08	1.112	5.21	3.56	104.1	111.1	3.4
1989	35	34	14	12	8	5	215	76	69	123	21	244.3	2.80	1.162	4.53	3.66	107.8	121.1	4.0
1990	33	33	22	6	9	3	190	71	56	131	15	231.3	2.76	1.063	5.10	3.29	89.6	132.7	5.3
1991	35	35	15	14	5	2	245	80	62	142	16	234.7	3.07	1.308	5.45	3.30	91.5	117.6	3.9
1992	34	34	15	11	10	4	218	79	54	177	17	256.7	2.77	1.060	6.21	2.96	84.7	126.0	4.9
1993	34	34	9	18	7	2	242	100	60	157	18	237.7	3.79	1.271	5.95	3.43	88.0	103.1	2.5
1994	23	23	12	6	6	2	132	52	45	121	14	164.7	2.84	1.075	6.61	3.56	88.7	141.2	4.1
1995	31	31	10	9	2	1	205	98	54	143	18	185.0	4.77	1.400	6.96	3.79	96.2	82.6	0.4
1996	30	30	7	9	1	0	208	89	60	137	21	175.3	4.57	1.529	7.03	4.23	107.1	86.6	0.5
1997	31	31	12	11	0	0	170	108	69	85	30	169.3	5.74	1.411	4.52	5.74	129.8	77.0	-0.7
1998	23	21	6	11	1	0	138	88	29	55	20	108.7	7.29	1.537	4.56	5.54	121.7	62.5	-2.1

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

412

808

716

119

RBI

207

.1662

OBP

.1927

SLG

.2067

OPS

.3994

Pitching

G (P)

398

387

157th-most career GS

155

246th-most career W

134

252nd-most career L

SHO

232nd-most career SHO

2,535

245th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,594

200th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

704

386th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.735

WHIP

1.2434

307th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.66

459th-highest career K/9

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
1988-07-16	SF @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	0	2	5
1993-05-16	LAD @ HOU Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	5
1990-04-24	PIT @ SF Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	4
1994-05-24	HOU @ ATL Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	0	2	3
1991-05-27	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1988-04-22	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	0	11	2
1992-09-19	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	1	11	0
1993-09-18	SD @ HOU Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	11	1
1995-06-11	CIN @ HOU Gameday	8.0	7	2	2	2	11	1
1995-06-27	STL @ HOU Gameday	7.2	5	1	1	2	11	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.

Honors

1× Cy Young Award1× 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.