Duke Sims
Cleveland Indians 1964–1970; Los Angeles Dodgers 1971; Detroit Tigers 1972; Los Angeles Dodgers 1972; Detroit Tigers 1973; New York Yankees 1973–1974; Texas Rangers 1974
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1965 | 48 | 133 | 118 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 33 | 0 | 0 | .178 | .271 | .331 | .601 | 66.8 | 70.0 | .275 | 0.3 |
| 1966 | 52 | 148 | 133 | 12 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 11 | 31 | 0 | 1 | .263 | .338 | .444 | .781 | 126.7 | 123.7 | .351 | 1.4 |
| 1967 | 88 | 310 | 272 | 25 | 55 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 37 | 30 | 64 | 3 | 3 | .202 | .294 | .379 | .672 | 98.2 | 97.7 | .310 | 1.8 |
| 1968 | 122 | 429 | 361 | 48 | 90 | 21 | 0 | 11 | 44 | 62 | 68 | 1 | 3 | .249 | .366 | .399 | .765 | 137.5 | 133.8 | .354 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 114 | 399 | 326 | 40 | 77 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 45 | 66 | 80 | 1 | 2 | .236 | .374 | .426 | .801 | 127.0 | 121.5 | .373 | 3.5 |
| 1970 | 110 | 398 | 345 | 46 | 91 | 12 | 0 | 23 | 56 | 46 | 59 | 0 | 4 | .264 | .360 | .499 | .859 | 134.4 | 129.9 | .388 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 90 | 263 | 230 | 23 | 63 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 30 | 39 | 0 | 1 | .274 | .357 | .400 | .757 | 119.5 | 121.5 | .345 | 2.2 |
| 1972 | 89 | 290 | 249 | 18 | 60 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 30 | 36 | 41 | 0 | 0 | .241 | .341 | .357 | .699 | 108.8 | 106.7 | .332 | 2.0 |
| 1973 | 84 | 300 | 261 | 34 | 64 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 31 | 33 | 37 | 1 | 2 | .245 | .331 | .387 | .718 | 99.4 | 98.5 | .334 | 1.6 |
| 1974 | 44 | 134 | 121 | 8 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .198 | .269 | .281 | .550 | 57.4 | 59.9 | .261 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-05-23 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1970-06-02 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1970-06-03 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1968-04-10 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1970-05-10 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
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.