Dwight Gooden

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 16, 1964 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutApril 7, 1984

Final gameSeptember 29, 2000

Seasons16 (1984–2000)

New York Mets 1984–1994; New York Yankees 1996–1997; Cleveland Indians 1998–1999; Houston Astros 2000; New York Yankees 2000; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2000

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified pitchers

6.2

13.6

25.9

92.6

17.3

SHO

46.9

169

92.6

54.3

19.8

126

30.9

71.6

170.7

11.1

ERA

5.01

24.7

WHIP

1.506

K/9

6.64

FIP

4.93

22.2

FIP-

99.7

ERA+

98.6

35.8

sWAR

1.6

28.4

of 82 qualified 1996 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

110.7

73.4

sWAR

43.4

98.3

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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1984	31	83	70	5	14	0	0	0	3	1	14	0	0	.200	.205	.200	.405	5.7	15.8	.189	4.7
1985	35	107	93	11	21	2	0	1	9	5	15	0	0	.226	.265	.280	.545	54.2	55.6	.257	9.9
1986	33	97	81	5	7	0	1	0	4	2	16	0	0	.086	.119	.111	.230	-46.1	-34.7	.113	4.4
1987	25	71	64	4	14	0	0	0	4	1	9	0	0	.219	.227	.219	.446	16.9	22.6	.205	3.3
1988	34	101	90	8	16	1	0	1	9	1	18	0	0	.178	.185	.222	.407	10.1	19.8	.187	3.0
1989	19	44	40	1	8	3	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	.200	.195	.275	.470	27.0	36.9	.211	2.0
1990	35	94	75	4	14	1	1	1	9	2	15	0	0	.187	.225	.267	.492	31.0	35.9	.228	2.5
1991	27	71	63	7	15	3	0	1	6	0	9	1	1	.238	.238	.333	.571	54.0	60.3	.257	2.4
1992	33	77	72	8	19	3	1	1	9	1	16	0	0	.264	.274	.375	.649	79.2	83.0	.296	2.3
1993	30	76	70	5	14	2	2	2	9	0	11	0	0	.200	.200	.371	.571	43.2	50.5	.248	3.8
1994	7	16	12	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-24.2	-11.8	.151	-0.6
1996	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1997	20	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.8	-100.0	.000	0.5
1998	23	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.8	-100.0	.000	2.7
1999	26	3	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	.500	.667	2.000	2.667	453.5	535.9	.909	-0.2
2000	27	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.6	-100.0	.000	1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1984	31	31	17	9	0	7	3	161	63	73	276	7	218.0	2.60	1.073	11.39	1.71	48.4	135.8	4.7
1985	35	35	24	4	0	16	8	198	47	69	268	13	276.7	1.53	.965	8.72	2.06	59.2	227.9	9.9
1986	33	33	17	6	0	12	2	197	79	80	200	17	250.0	2.84	1.108	7.20	3.04	84.6	126.3	4.4
1987	25	25	15	7	0	7	3	162	64	53	148	11	179.7	3.21	1.197	7.41	2.93	75.9	120.7	3.3
1988	34	34	18	9	0	10	3	242	88	57	175	8	248.3	3.19	1.204	6.34	2.48	75.4	103.1	3.0
1989	19	17	9	4	1	0	0	93	38	47	101	9	118.3	2.89	1.183	7.68	3.19	95.7	115.2	2.0
1990	34	34	19	7	0	2	1	229	99	70	223	10	232.7	3.83	1.285	8.63	2.44	65.0	98.2	2.5
1991	27	27	13	7	0	3	1	185	76	56	150	12	190.0	3.60	1.268	7.11	2.97	81.2	101.4	2.4
1992	31	31	10	13	0	3	0	197	84	70	145	11	206.0	3.67	1.296	6.33	3.12	89.3	95.3	2.3
1993	29	29	12	15	0	7	2	188	80	61	149	16	208.7	3.45	1.193	6.43	3.55	89.0	115.6	3.8
1994	7	7	3	4	0	0	0	46	29	15	40	9	41.3	6.31	1.476	8.71	5.12	123.0	66.0	-0.6
1996	29	29	11	7	0	1	1	169	95	88	126	19	170.7	5.01	1.506	6.64	4.93	99.7	98.6	1.6
1997	20	19	9	5	0	0	0	116	58	53	66	14	106.3	4.91	1.589	5.59	5.31	118.8	91.0	0.5
1998	23	23	8	6	0	0	0	135	56	51	83	13	134.0	3.76	1.388	5.57	4.59	96.7	126.1	2.7
1999	26	22	3	4	0	0	0	127	80	67	88	18	115.0	6.26	1.687	6.89	5.69	113.1	80.3	-0.2
2000	27	14	6	5	2	0	0	119	55	44	55	23	105.0	4.71	1.552	4.71	6.36	132.0	102.0	1.1

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

434

849

741

145

RBI

135

.1957

OBP

.2120

SLG

.2618

OPS

.4738

Pitching

G (P)

430

410

125th-most career GS

194

135th-most career W

112

424th-most career L

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,801

177th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,293

59th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

954

133rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.506

450th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2561

362nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.37

160th-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	HR	RBI	TB
1985-09-21	PIT @ NYM Gameday	4	2	3	1	4	6
1993-05-22	ATL @ NYM Gameday	3	1	3	1	3	6
1988-06-05	CHC @ NYM Gameday	5	2	2	1	2	5
1992-08-24	NYM @ SF Gameday	3	1	1	1	2	4
1999-06-11	CLE @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1984-09-12	PIT @ NYM Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	0	16	0
1985-08-20	SF @ NYM Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	3	16	0
1984-09-17	NYM @ PHI Gameday	8.0	7	2	1	0	16	0
1990-05-11	LAD @ NYM Gameday	7.0	9	3	3	1	15	0
1985-05-30	NYM @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	14	1

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× Rookie of the Year1× Cy Young Award1× Pitching Triple Crown1× Silver Slugger4× 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.