MLB / Players

Dwayne Murphy

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornMarch 18, 1955 · Merced, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 8, 1978

Final gameOctober 1, 1989

Seasons12 (1978–1989)

Oakland Athletics 1978–1987; Detroit Tigers 1988; Philadelphia Phillies 1989

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

152

55.1

619

55.9

523

62.5

122

16.9

22.1

38.2

63.2

RBI

33.8

89.7

123

8.1

32.4

41.9

.233

6.6

OBP

.340

52.9

SLG

.400

33.8

OPS

.740

44.9

wRC+

111.3

56.6

OPS+

108.4

49.3

wOBA

.336

45.6

sWAR

3.2

66.2

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.1

75.1

OPS+

113.9

70.1

sWAR

29.8

96.5

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
1978	60	62	52	15	10	2	0	0	5	7	14	0	1	.192	.279	.231	.509	50.2	48.3	.250	-0.4
1979	121	489	388	57	99	10	4	11	40	84	80	15	11	.255	.387	.387	.773	120.2	115.2	.358	3.0
1980	159	702	573	86	157	18	2	13	68	102	96	26	15	.274	.384	.380	.764	123.1	117.8	.357	4.5
1981	107	477	390	58	98	10	3	15	60	73	91	10	4	.251	.369	.408	.777	132.5	129.2	.361	3.6
1982	151	660	543	84	129	15	1	27	94	94	122	26	8	.238	.349	.418	.767	116.9	113.8	.348	3.8
1983	130	546	471	55	107	17	2	17	75	62	105	7	5	.227	.314	.380	.694	94.8	94.6	.314	1.7
1984	153	647	559	93	143	18	2	33	88	74	111	4	5	.256	.342	.472	.814	130.3	129.3	.363	4.9
1985	152	619	523	77	122	21	3	20	59	84	123	4	5	.233	.340	.400	.740	111.3	108.4	.336	3.2
1986	98	400	329	50	83	11	3	9	39	56	80	3	1	.252	.364	.386	.750	114.0	111.3	.342	2.2
1987	82	284	219	39	51	7	0	8	35	58	61	4	4	.233	.388	.374	.762	117.3	110.7	.351	1.7
1988	49	171	144	14	36	5	0	4	19	24	26	1	1	.250	.361	.368	.729	113.1	108.7	.339	0.8
1989	98	185	156	20	34	5	0	9	27	29	44	0	1	.218	.341	.423	.764	121.4	116.7	.353	0.8

Career totals

1,360

5,242

4,347

648

1,069

139

166

RBI

609

747

328th-most career BB

953

446th-most career SO

100

.2459

OBP

.3558

SLG

.4017

OPS

.7575

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
1985-09-02	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	2	3	0	11
1984-08-12	ATH @ LAA Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1979-08-04	ATH @ SEA Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	1	2	2	8
1984-06-27	ATH @ KC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8
1984-07-24	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	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.

Honors

6× Gold Glove

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.