MLB / Players

Rich Dauer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 27, 1952 · San Bernardino, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1976

Final gameSeptember 29, 1985

Seasons10 (1976–1985)

Baltimore Orioles 1976–1985

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified batters

140

520

7.7

459

4.6

3.1

108

1.5

16.2

RBI

7.7

39.2

96.9

10.8

83.8

.235

5.4

OBP

.306

12.3

SLG

.309

3.1

OPS

.615

4.6

wRC+

74.2

7.7

OPS+

72.7

6.2

wOBA

.286

3.8

sWAR

0.4

6.9

of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

84.1

OPS+

83.6

14.2

sWAR

8.6

85.3

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
1976	11	42	39	0	4	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	0	.103	.143	.103	.245	-32.4	-24.6	.126	-0.5
1977	96	329	304	38	74	15	1	5	25	20	28	1	0	.243	.294	.349	.642	80.7	80.4	.293	0.5
1978	133	491	459	57	121	23	0	6	46	26	22	0	4	.264	.301	.353	.654	88.9	90.1	.302	1.3
1979	142	528	479	63	123	20	0	9	61	36	36	0	1	.257	.305	.355	.660	81.1	82.1	.299	0.8
1980	152	618	557	71	158	32	0	2	63	46	19	3	2	.284	.338	.352	.690	94.5	92.2	.320	2.0
1981	96	404	369	41	97	27	0	4	38	27	18	0	0	.263	.317	.369	.685	100.1	98.7	.320	1.6
1982	158	626	558	75	156	24	2	8	57	50	34	0	1	.280	.337	.373	.709	97.9	96.3	.323	2.3
1983	140	520	459	49	108	19	0	5	41	47	29	1	1	.235	.306	.309	.615	74.2	72.7	.286	0.4
1984	127	426	397	29	101	26	0	2	24	24	23	1	3	.254	.296	.335	.631	75.7	76.8	.288	0.4
1985	85	234	208	25	42	7	0	2	14	20	7	0	1	.202	.275	.264	.540	53.4	50.9	.255	-0.4

Career totals

1,140

4,218

3,829

448

984

193

RBI

372

297

219

.2570

OBP

.3103

SLG

.3426

OPS

.6529

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	HR	RBI	TB
1981-08-24	BAL @ SEA Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	5	8
1979-05-29	BAL @ KC Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	3	7
1979-04-29	BAL @ ATH Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	2	7
1983-09-03	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	7
1982-06-07	BAL @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	3	7

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.