MLB / Players

Jerry DaVanon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb
BornAugust 21, 1945 · Oceanside, CA, USA
MLB debutApril 11, 1969
Final gameMay 4, 1977
Seasons8 (1969–1977)

San Diego Padres 1969; St. Louis Cardinals 1969–1970; Baltimore Orioles 1971; California Angels 1973; St. Louis Cardinals 1974; Houston Astros 1975–1976; St. Louis Cardinals 1977

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
2.1
70.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1969401089911204011092003.202.269.273.54150.754.1.257-0.1
19701120182210002500.111.200.167.367-1.6-1.1.187-0.2
197138948114195004122000.235.340.296.63793.785.3.3140.4
197341524961230023912.245.288.306.59573.173.7.2800.1
19743047404610044501.150.255.175.43028.223.4.227-0.2
1975321149715274211016720.278.386.392.778130.5123.7.3720.9
197661130107193133120211202.290.408.402.810147.9140.2.3871.4
19779982000001200.000.111.000.111-68.6-66.8.083-0.2

Career totals

G
262
PA
574
AB
499
R
73
H
117
2B
21
3B
5
HR
3
RBI
50
BB
68
SO
80
SB
3
BA
.2345
OBP
.3310
SLG
.3146
OPS
.6456

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1975-08-26HOU @ STL Gameday523020217
1975-08-11STL @ HOU Gameday413001306
1976-05-30HOU @ ATL Gameday613010505
1976-07-20HOU @ PIT Gameday422001305
1973-06-01LAA @ NYY Gameday403100204

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.