MLB / Players

Ken Dayley

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 171 lb
BornFebruary 25, 1959 · Jerome, ID, USA
MLB debutMay 13, 1982
Final gameApril 14, 1993
Seasons11 (1982–1993)

Atlanta Braves 1982–1984; St. Louis Cardinals 1984–1990; Toronto Blue Jays 1991; Toronto Blue Jays 1993

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
6.6
82.3

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
19822023201500012901.250.318.250.56863.058.6.2800.1
198325413227000141100.219.306.219.52448.344.1.2650.7
19848541200000200.500.500.5001.000189.2174.6.466-0.9
198557550200000100.400.400.400.800131.8127.3.3711.3
198632650100001200.200.333.200.53366.352.8.2800.6
1987530000000000001.6
198854440000000200.000.000.000.000-128.4-100.0.0001.0
198971550000000200.000.000.000.000-129.0-100.0.0001.4
199058660000000300.000.000.000.000-125.6-100.0.0000.9
19918000000000000-0.1
199320000000000000.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
198220115600079362534971.34.541.4584.294.49119.882.50.1
198324165800010050397012104.74.301.3286.024.00103.989.60.7
1984760500044211110623.77.992.3243.806.76181.546.9-0.9
198557044110065201862265.32.761.2708.541.9555.0128.31.3
19863100350042141133138.73.261.3717.682.3163.1112.10.6
19875309540052183363261.02.661.3939.302.9571.7155.01.6
19885402750048171938255.32.771.2116.182.8983.5125.11.0
198971043120063243040375.32.871.2354.783.3192.3125.21.4
19905804420063293051573.33.561.2686.263.5393.0106.70.9
19918000000735304.36.232.7696.235.68135.867.1-0.1
19932000000104200.70.007.50027.0015.00345.90.0

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

G
388
PA
95
AB
81
R
4
H
17
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
7
SO
32
SB
0
BA
.2099
OBP
.2727
SLG
.2099
OPS
.4826

Pitching

G (P)
385
GS
33
W
33
L
45
SV
39
447th-most career SV
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
574
SO (P)
406
BB allowed
225
ERA
3.640
WHIP
1.3754
K/9
6.37

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
1983-07-29ATL @ SD Gameday202000012
1982-06-01ATL @ NYM Gameday401000101
1983-08-03ATL @ SF Gameday301000101
1982-05-19ATL @ WSH Gameday311000011
1982-05-24NYM @ ATL Gameday201000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1983-06-24ATL @ CIN Gameday8.2955291
1986-04-19STL @ WSH Gameday4.0422170
1983-09-28ATL @ HOU Gameday7.1733350
1983-08-27ATL @ PIT Gameday7.0522151
1983-10-02ATL @ SD Gameday7.0332150

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.