Eric Davis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 165 lb

BornMay 29, 1962 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 19, 1984

Final gameOctober 7, 2001

Seasons17 (1984–2001)

Cincinnati Reds 1984–1991; Los Angeles Dodgers 1992; Detroit Tigers 1993; Los Angeles Dodgers 1993; Detroit Tigers 1994; Cincinnati Reds 1996; Baltimore Orioles 1997–1998; St. Louis Cardinals 1999–2000; San Francisco Giants 2001

Percentile snapshot

1998 season — qualified batters

131

5.7

508

1.3

452

1.9

38.6

148

39.2

8.2

75.9

RBI

29.7

108

30.4

32.9

37.3

.327

94.9

OBP

.388

83.5

SLG

.582

89.2

OPS

.970

89.2

wRC+

150.8

89.9

OPS+

151.3

89.9

wOBA

.415

89.9

sWAR

4.0

72.8

of 159 qualified 1998 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.6

87.2

OPS+

125.5

86.2

sWAR

38.1

97.7

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
1984	57	200	174	33	39	10	1	10	30	24	48	10	2	.224	.320	.466	.786	117.4	114.7	.360	1.1
1985	56	131	122	26	30	3	3	8	18	7	39	16	3	.246	.287	.516	.803	116.3	116.3	.357	0.6
1986	132	487	415	97	115	15	3	27	71	68	100	80	11	.277	.378	.523	.901	146.1	142.7	.403	4.1
1987	129	562	474	120	139	23	4	37	100	84	134	50	6	.293	.399	.593	.991	156.5	155.1	.429	6.0
1988	135	543	472	81	129	18	3	26	93	65	124	35	3	.273	.363	.489	.852	141.8	139.6	.383	4.8
1989	131	542	462	74	130	14	2	34	101	68	116	21	7	.281	.367	.541	.908	152.6	154.5	.399	5.4
1990	127	518	453	84	118	26	2	24	86	60	100	21	3	.260	.347	.486	.833	125.0	123.7	.372	3.2
1991	89	340	285	39	67	10	0	11	33	48	92	14	2	.235	.353	.386	.739	109.0	105.7	.342	1.6
1992	76	308	267	21	61	8	1	5	32	36	71	19	1	.228	.325	.322	.647	89.4	85.7	.308	0.2
1993	131	511	451	71	107	18	1	20	68	55	106	35	7	.237	.319	.415	.734	97.8	99.7	.327	1.0
1994	37	138	120	19	22	4	0	3	13	18	45	5	0	.183	.290	.292	.582	55.5	50.5	.275	-0.2
1996	129	496	415	81	119	20	0	26	83	70	121	23	9	.287	.394	.523	.917	142.2	140.0	.404	4.4
1997	42	176	158	29	48	11	0	8	25	14	47	6	0	.304	.358	.525	.883	130.4	131.3	.382	1.0
1998	131	508	452	81	148	29	1	28	89	44	108	7	6	.327	.388	.582	.970	150.8	151.3	.415	4.0
1999	58	223	191	27	49	9	2	5	30	30	49	5	4	.257	.359	.403	.762	96.0	92.7	.345	0.4
2000	92	293	254	38	77	14	0	6	40	36	60	1	1	.303	.389	.429	.818	112.4	107.2	.370	1.0
2001	74	171	156	17	32	7	3	4	22	13	38	1	1	.205	.269	.365	.634	67.7	68.1	.281	-0.4

Career totals

1,626

6,147

5,321

938

434th-most career R

1,430

239

282

196th-most career HR

RBI

934

377th-most career RBI

740

331st-most career BB

1,398

119th-most career SO

349

113th-most career SB

.2687

OBP

.3586

SLG

.4824

209th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8410

236th-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	TB
1987-05-03	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	3	6	13
1986-09-10	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	5	4	0	0	3	4	13
1996-05-24	CIN @ COL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	5	11
1989-06-02	SD @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	1	6	10
1997-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	3	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

3× Gold Glove2× Silver Slugger2× 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.