Mark Davis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 19, 1960 · Livermore, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1980

Final gameSeptember 28, 1997

Seasons15 (1980–1997)

Philadelphia Phillies 1980–1981; San Francisco Giants 1983–1986; San Diego Padres 1987; San Francisco Giants 1987; San Diego Padres 1988–1989; Kansas City Royals 1990–1991; Atlanta Braves 1992; Kansas City Royals 1992; Philadelphia Phillies 1993; San Diego Padres 1993–1994; Milwaukee Brewers 1997

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified pitchers

98.9

8.6

2.2

4.3

SHO

201

59.1

104

6.5

124

48.4

15.1

174.7

10.8

ERA

5.36

WHIP

1.460

15.1

K/9

6.39

83.9

FIP

4.25

16.1

FIP-

120.2

3.2

ERA+

65.9

sWAR

-2.1

of 94 qualified 1984 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

88.6

4.5

sWAR

5.3

80.1

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
1980	2	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	191.8	176.2	.466	0.2
1981	9	14	11	2	1	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	.091	.231	.091	.322	-0.9	-6.6	.189	-1.8
1983	20	42	30	3	4	1	0	0	1	3	8	0	0	.133	.212	.167	.379	7.0	7.7	.193	1.2
1984	46	54	46	4	6	0	2	0	4	2	16	0	0	.130	.167	.217	.384	0.1	8.5	.181	-2.1
1985	77	16	12	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	5	0	1	.250	.250	.417	.667	82.4	87.0	.298	1.2
1986	67	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.125	.125	.250	.375	-10.1	3.4	.165	1.4
1987	64	32	30	3	7	1	1	0	1	0	6	0	0	.233	.233	.333	.567	45.9	51.5	.251	1.4
1988	62	12	10	2	2	0	0	1	2	1	4	1	0	.200	.273	.500	.773	120.4	120.0	.346	2.8
1989	70	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.2	-100.0	.000	2.7
1990	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
1991	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1992	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-139.5	-100.0	.000	-1.5
1993	60	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	29.5	35.6	.229	0.5
1994	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
1997	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1980	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	5	5	0	7.0	2.57	1.286	6.43	3.46	92.6	145.4	0.2
1981	9	9	1	4	0	0	0	49	37	24	29	7	43.0	7.74	1.698	6.07	5.11	142.9	46.2	-1.8
1983	20	20	6	4	0	2	2	93	43	50	83	14	111.0	3.49	1.288	6.73	4.25	119.0	102.4	1.2
1984	46	27	5	17	0	1	0	201	104	54	124	25	174.7	5.36	1.460	6.39	4.25	120.2	65.9	-2.1
1985	77	1	5	12	7	0	0	89	45	41	131	13	114.3	3.54	1.137	10.31	2.96	85.1	98.2	1.2
1986	67	2	5	7	4	0	0	63	28	34	90	6	84.3	2.99	1.150	9.60	2.78	78.1	119.2	1.4
1987	63	11	9	8	2	1	0	123	59	59	98	14	133.0	3.99	1.368	6.63	4.23	107.5	98.6	1.4
1988	62	0	5	10	28	0	0	70	22	42	102	2	98.3	2.01	1.139	9.34	2.18	64.1	168.7	2.8
1989	70	0	4	3	44	0	0	66	19	31	92	6	92.7	1.85	1.047	8.94	2.59	74.0	189.4	2.7
1990	53	3	2	7	6	0	0	71	39	52	73	9	68.7	5.11	1.791	9.57	4.83	125.3	75.5	-0.3
1991	29	5	6	3	1	0	0	55	31	39	47	6	62.7	4.45	1.500	6.75	4.57	111.1	92.4	0.4
1992	27	6	2	3	0	0	0	64	42	41	34	9	53.0	7.13	1.981	5.77	6.09	156.1	54.7	-1.5
1993	60	0	1	5	4	0	0	79	33	44	70	10	69.7	4.26	1.766	9.04	4.77	117.7	95.1	0.5
1994	20	0	0	1	0	0	0	20	16	13	15	4	16.3	8.82	2.020	8.27	6.80	165.0	46.8	-0.7
1997	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	10	5	14	4	16.3	5.51	1.592	7.71	5.72	124.3	83.5	0.0

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

625

199

167

RBI

.1557

OBP

.1943

SLG

.2395

OPS

.4338

Pitching

G (P)

624

205th-most career G (P)

183rd-most career SV

SHO

1,145

SO (P)

1,007

BB allowed

534

ERA

4.166

WHIP

1.3991

K/9

7.92

100th-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1988-06-13	SF @ SD Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	4
1984-05-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	2	3
1984-07-19	SF @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	0	3
1985-05-27	SF @ WSH Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	0	3
1987-04-14	SF @ SD Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1983-09-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	8	0
1983-07-03	SF @ SD Gameday	6.0	3	4	4	3	8	1
1984-08-19	NYM @ SF Gameday	5.1	5	3	3	0	8	2
1983-10-01	SF @ LAD Gameday	8.1	4	1	1	3	7	0
1984-07-19	SF @ CHC Gameday	8.0	8	6	5	2	7	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× Cy Young Award2× 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.