MLB / Players

Doug Rau

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 15, 1948 · Columbus, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1972

Final gameMay 26, 1981

Seasons9 (1972–1981)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1972–1979; California Angels 1981

Percentile snapshot

1978 season — qualified pitchers

13.3

32.2

65.6

77.8

33.3

SHO

37.8

219

33.3

78.9

45.6

42.2

199.0

32.2

ERA

3.26

63.3

WHIP

1.442

12.2

K/9

4.30

42.2

FIP

3.83

28.9

FIP-

108.5

16.7

ERA+

108.5

57.8

sWAR

2.6

48.9

of 91 qualified 1978 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.3

58.4

sWAR

15.3

91.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1972	7	9	7	0	1	0	1	1	1	2	.143	.250	.429	.679	92.6	93.1	.310	0.9
1973	31	13	11	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	.091	.091	.091	.182	-63.5	-47.9	.085	0.2
1974	36	78	64	3	9	0	0	4	6	22	.141	.214	.141	.355	5.0	3.9	.187	1.2
1975	38	102	87	5	17	0	0	6	5	28	.195	.239	.195	.435	22.7	25.5	.216	3.8
1976	34	76	60	5	9	0	0	2	7	15	.150	.235	.150	.385	15.5	13.5	.203	4.7
1977	32	81	71	4	10	1	0	2	5	11	.141	.205	.155	.360	-3.0	-0.3	.180	3.0
1978	30	78	63	3	9	1	0	5	2	13	.143	.169	.159	.328	-17.8	-6.9	.159	2.6
1979	11	17	14	1	2	1	0	0	2	2	.143	.250	.214	.464	33.6	29.7	.234	-0.5
1981	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1972	7	3	2	2	0	2	0	18	8	11	19	1	32.7	2.20	.888	5.23	2.86	85.5	152.0	0.9
1973	31	3	4	2	3	0	0	64	28	28	51	5	63.7	3.96	1.445	7.21	3.34	95.8	88.0	0.2
1974	36	35	13	11	0	3	1	191	82	70	126	20	198.3	3.72	1.316	5.72	3.75	108.8	92.5	1.2
1975	38	38	15	9	0	8	2	227	89	61	151	18	257.7	3.11	1.118	5.27	3.10	90.1	110.6	3.8
1976	34	32	16	12	0	8	3	221	66	69	98	18	231.0	2.57	1.255	3.82	3.80	112.1	131.8	4.7
1977	32	32	14	8	0	4	2	232	81	49	126	15	212.3	3.43	1.323	5.34	3.24	84.6	111.6	3.0
1978	30	30	15	9	0	7	2	219	72	68	95	17	199.0	3.26	1.442	4.30	3.83	108.5	108.5	2.6
1979	11	11	1	5	0	1	1	73	33	22	28	3	56.0	5.30	1.696	4.50	3.78	103.0	69.2	-0.5
1981	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	14	10	4	3	2	10.3	8.71	1.742	2.61	5.64	154.6	41.9	-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

222

454

377

RBI

.1538

OBP

.2132

SLG

.1671

OPS

.3803

Pitching

G (P)

222

187

SHO

1,261

SO (P)

697

BB allowed

382

ERA

3.347

342nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3013

K/9

4.97

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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1975-06-24	LAD @ HOU Gameday	3	0	3	0	2	1	3
1972-09-02	LAD @ STL Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	1	3
1974-06-29	LAD @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2
1975-09-24	LAD @ SD Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	0	2
1977-04-27	LAD @ SD Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1977-06-16	PIT @ LAD Gameday	8.0	9	2	1	0	9	0
1974-07-25	LAD @ HOU Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	1	8	0
1978-06-06	LAD @ NYM Gameday	9.0	11	2	2	1	8	1
1975-04-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	8.0	4	3	3	4	8	2
1975-05-19	CHC @ LAD Gameday	7.2	5	2	2	0	8	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.