MLB / Players

Dwight Evans

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornNovember 3, 1951 · Santa Monica, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1972

Final gameOctober 6, 1991

Seasons20 (1972–1991)

Boston Red Sox 1972–1990; Baltimore Orioles 1991

Percentile snapshot

1990 season — qualified batters

123

522

10.9

445

4.7

36.7

111

4.7

12.5

42.2

48.4

RBI

70.3

50.8

17.2

52.3

.249

OBP

.349

57.8

SLG

.391

33.6

OPS

.740

41.4

wRC+

105.7

42.2

OPS+

103.7

39.8

wOBA

.341

46.9

sWAR

0.7

12.5

of 129 qualified 1990 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

131.1

91.5

OPS+

127.9

88.5

sWAR

60.3

99.4

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
1972	18	64	57	2	15	3	1	1	6	7	13	0	0	.263	.344	.404	.747	125.4	117.4	.355	0.3
1973	119	328	282	46	63	13	1	10	32	40	52	5	0	.223	.320	.383	.703	94.2	93.3	.327	0.2
1974	133	514	463	60	130	19	8	10	70	38	77	4	4	.281	.335	.421	.756	112.1	111.4	.348	1.8
1975	128	470	412	61	113	24	6	13	56	47	60	3	4	.274	.353	.456	.809	122.1	120.4	.370	2.2
1976	146	571	501	61	121	34	5	17	62	57	92	6	7	.242	.324	.431	.755	110.9	110.6	.349	1.9
1977	73	265	230	39	66	9	2	14	36	28	58	4	2	.287	.363	.526	.889	133.2	129.5	.393	1.6
1978	147	572	497	75	123	24	2	24	63	65	119	8	5	.247	.336	.449	.784	113.6	111.3	.357	2.1
1979	152	563	489	69	134	24	1	21	58	69	76	6	9	.274	.364	.456	.820	117.4	116.3	.367	2.4
1980	148	542	463	72	123	37	5	18	60	64	98	3	1	.266	.358	.484	.842	125.8	125.1	.375	2.8
1981	108	504	412	84	122	19	4	22	71	85	85	3	2	.296	.415	.522	.937	171.7	163.5	.428	5.5
1982	162	727	609	122	178	37	7	32	98	112	125	3	2	.292	.402	.534	.936	155.6	149.7	.416	6.6
1983	126	544	470	74	112	19	4	22	58	70	97	3	0	.238	.338	.436	.774	107.7	106.3	.347	1.6
1984	162	738	630	121	186	37	8	32	104	96	115	3	1	.295	.388	.532	.920	152.1	148.0	.407	6.4
1985	159	744	617	110	162	29	1	29	78	114	105	7	2	.263	.378	.454	.832	128.3	124.3	.373	4.3
1986	152	640	529	86	137	33	2	26	97	97	117	3	3	.259	.376	.476	.853	133.3	131.0	.379	4.0
1987	154	657	541	109	165	37	2	34	123	106	98	4	6	.305	.417	.569	.986	157.1	156.9	.423	5.8
1988	149	645	559	96	164	31	7	21	111	76	99	5	1	.293	.375	.487	.861	139.1	136.3	.386	4.2
1989	146	630	520	82	148	27	3	20	100	99	84	3	3	.285	.397	.463	.861	143.7	137.2	.396	4.3
1990	123	522	445	66	111	18	3	13	63	67	73	3	4	.249	.349	.391	.740	105.7	103.7	.341	0.7
1991	101	329	270	35	73	9	1	6	38	54	54	2	3	.270	.393	.378	.771	125.1	117.5	.363	1.5

Career totals

2,606

42nd-most career G

10,569

53rd-most career PA

8,996

75th-most career AB

1,470

80th-most career R

2,446

119th-most career H

483

82nd-most career 2B

354th-most career 3B

385

68th-most career HR

RBI

1,384

82nd-most career RBI

1,391

29th-most career BB

1,697

46th-most career SO

.2719

OBP

.3699

286th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4702

293rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8401

243rd-highest career OPS

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
1988-08-13	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	4	4	0	1	2	7	1	12
1980-10-04	TOR @ BOS Gameday	7	2	5	3	0	1	1	2	11
1982-08-30	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	2	0	11
1984-06-28	SEA @ BOS Gameday	7	4	4	1	1	1	3	0	10
1979-08-02	BOS @ MIL Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	3	0	10

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

8× Gold Glove2× Silver Slugger3× 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.