Richard Dotson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornJanuary 10, 1959 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1979

Final gameJune 5, 1990

Seasons12 (1979–1990)

Chicago White Sox 1979–1987; New York Yankees 1988; Chicago White Sox 1989; New York Yankees 1989; Kansas City Royals 1990

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

26.7

21.1

32.2

66.7

34.4

SHO

178

77.8

18.9

28.9

4.4

171.0

6.7

ERA

5.00

2.2

WHIP

1.462

5.6

K/9

4.05

18.9

FIP

5.31

1.1

FIP-

134.2

3.3

ERA+

79.1

2.2

sWAR

-0.4

2.2

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.0

25.8

sWAR

15.5

91.3

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	R	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1979	5	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1980	36	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1981	27	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1982	34	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1983	35	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.9
1984	33	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.9
1985	9	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1986	34	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
1987	31	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1988	32	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1989	28	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1990	8	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	5	5	2	0	1	1	28	10	6	13	0	24.3	3.70	1.397	4.81	2.44	57.5	114.7	0.4
1980	33	32	12	10	8	0	185	94	87	109	20	198.0	4.27	1.374	4.95	4.38	108.7	94.3	1.4
1981	24	24	9	8	5	4	145	59	49	73	13	141.0	3.77	1.376	4.66	3.83	106.8	95.2	1.1
1982	34	31	11	15	3	1	219	84	73	109	19	196.7	3.84	1.485	4.99	4.03	99.2	105.6	2.4
1983	35	35	22	7	8	1	209	86	106	137	19	240.0	3.23	1.313	5.14	4.14	99.4	129.1	4.9
1984	32	32	14	15	14	1	216	98	103	120	24	245.7	3.59	1.299	4.40	4.38	106.5	114.6	3.9
1985	9	9	3	4	0	0	53	26	17	33	5	52.3	4.47	1.338	5.68	3.87	90.8	95.3	0.4
1986	34	34	10	17	3	1	226	120	69	110	24	197.0	5.48	1.497	5.03	4.34	101.5	78.0	-0.7
1987	31	31	11	12	7	2	201	98	86	114	24	211.3	4.17	1.358	4.85	4.49	98.7	109.0	3.0
1988	32	29	12	9	4	0	178	95	72	77	27	171.0	5.00	1.462	4.05	5.31	134.2	79.1	-0.4
1989	28	26	5	12	2	0	181	75	58	69	16	151.3	4.46	1.579	4.10	4.48	116.7	86.0	0.4
1990	8	7	0	4	0	0	43	27	14	9	3	28.7	8.48	1.988	2.83	5.00	129.8	45.5	-1.3

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

312

RBI

Pitching

G (P)

305

295

373rd-most career GS

111

113

408th-most career L

SHO

1,857

SO (P)

973

BB allowed

740

317th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.225

WHIP

1.4128

K/9

4.71

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1980-08-26	DET @ CWS Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1980-08-27	DET @ CWS Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1980-09-17	CWS @ SEA Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1981-04-18	BOS @ CWS Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1981-04-27	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1984-05-26	CWS @ TEX Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	10	0
1986-08-31	TEX @ CWS Gameday	7.1	4	1	1	3	10	0
1986-08-10	CWS @ MIL Gameday	6.1	7	4	4	1	10	1
1980-06-18	CWS @ TOR Gameday	8.0	6	3	3	1	9	1
1989-10-01	CLE @ CWS Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	2	9	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.

Honors

1× 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.