MLB / Players

John Dopson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornJuly 14, 1963 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1985

Final gameJune 22, 1994

Seasons8 (1985–1994)

Montreal Expos 1985; Montreal Expos 1988; Boston Red Sox 1989–1993; California Angels 1994

Percentile snapshot

1989 season — qualified pitchers

5.2

6.5

28.6

77.9

10.4

SHO

166

90.9

50.6

18.2

70.1

169.3

3.9

ERA

3.99

18.2

WHIP

1.388

19.5

K/9

5.05

41.6

FIP

4.06

16.9

FIP-

99.5

41.6

ERA+

102.4

37.7

sWAR

1.9

27.3

of 78 qualified 1989 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.9

81.2

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	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1985	4	6	4	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.333	.000	.333	50.7	4.2	.250	-1.1
1988	26	56	51	3	1	1	1	31	.059	.077	.078	.155	-77.6	-55.8	.076	2.5
1989	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
1990	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1991	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1992	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1993	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1994	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1985	4	3	0	2	0	0	0	25	16	4	4	4	13.0	11.08	2.231	2.77	6.93	202.0	31.0	-1.1
1988	26	26	3	11	0	1	0	150	57	58	101	15	168.7	3.04	1.233	5.39	3.72	104.1	117.4	2.5
1989	29	28	12	8	0	2	0	166	75	69	95	14	169.3	3.99	1.388	5.05	4.06	99.5	102.4	1.9
1990	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	13	4	9	9	2	17.7	2.04	1.245	4.58	4.79	118.0	199.1	0.6
1991	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	1.0	18.00	3.000	0.00	5.91	139.0	23.6	-0.1
1992	25	25	7	11	0	0	0	159	64	38	55	17	141.3	4.08	1.394	3.50	4.42	106.8	101.7	1.5
1993	34	28	7	11	0	1	1	170	86	59	89	16	155.7	4.97	1.471	5.15	4.37	95.9	91.7	0.8
1994	21	5	1	4	1	0	0	67	40	26	33	6	58.7	6.14	1.585	5.06	4.88	100.5	79.2	-0.2

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

144

RBI

.0545

OBP

.1034

SLG

.0727

OPS

.1761

Pitching

G (P)

144

119

SHO

725

SO (P)

386

BB allowed

264

ERA

4.268

WHIP

1.4007

K/9

4.79

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	H	2B	RBI	BB	TB
1988-08-31	LAD @ WSH Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	2
1988-05-29	LAD @ WSH Gameday	2	1	0	0	0	1
1988-06-08	PHI @ WSH Gameday	2	1	0	0	0	1
1985-09-04	WSH @ LAD Gameday	1	0	0	0	0	0
1985-09-10	WSH @ PHI Gameday	2	0	0	0	2	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1989-04-14	BAL @ BOS Gameday	7.2	3	4	2	4	9	1
1993-04-19	CWS @ BOS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	8	0
1993-05-21	NYY @ BOS Gameday	7.0	8	1	1	2	8	0
1988-09-21	WSH @ CHC Gameday	7.0	7	5	5	1	7	1
1993-07-23	ATH @ BOS Gameday	7.0	3	3	3	2	7	0

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.