Rick Dempsey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 13, 1949 · Fayetteville, TN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 1969

Final gameSeptember 27, 1992

Seasons24 (1969–1992)

Minnesota Twins 1969–1972; New York Yankees 1973–1975; Baltimore Orioles 1976; New York Yankees 1976; Baltimore Orioles 1977–1986; Cleveland Indians 1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1988–1990; Milwaukee Brewers 1991; Baltimore Orioles 1992

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

wRC+

90.8

24.3

OPS+

87.9

19.8

sWAR

26.5

95.8

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
1969	5	7	6	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.500	.571	.667	1.238	261.0	245.2	.564	0.2
1970	5	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-66.1	-62.5	.094	-0.1
1971	6	14	13	2	4	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.308	.357	.385	.742	114.5	109.5	.349	0.1
1972	25	47	40	0	8	1	0	0	0	6	8	0	0	.200	.304	.225	.529	61.9	56.5	.271	0.2
1973	6	13	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.182	.250	.182	.432	26.7	26.1	.217	0.0
1974	43	119	109	12	26	3	0	2	12	8	7	1	0	.239	.288	.321	.609	76.7	77.3	.287	0.3
1975	71	170	145	18	38	8	0	1	11	21	15	0	0	.262	.353	.338	.691	103.6	99.0	.330	0.6
1976	80	240	216	12	42	2	0	0	12	18	21	1	1	.194	.263	.204	.466	44.4	42.3	.235	-0.1
1977	91	314	270	27	61	7	4	3	34	34	34	2	3	.226	.314	.315	.629	81.3	78.1	.294	1.1
1978	136	498	441	41	114	25	0	6	32	48	54	7	3	.259	.327	.356	.683	99.9	99.1	.317	3.0
1979	124	413	368	48	88	23	0	6	41	38	37	0	1	.239	.307	.351	.658	82.8	81.6	.302	1.6
1980	119	406	362	51	95	26	3	9	40	36	45	3	1	.262	.333	.425	.759	111.2	109.3	.345	2.9
1981	92	287	251	24	54	10	1	6	15	32	36	0	1	.215	.306	.335	.641	89.3	86.3	.304	1.5
1982	125	402	344	35	88	15	1	5	36	46	37	0	3	.256	.339	.349	.688	94.4	91.2	.318	2.2
1983	128	400	347	33	80	16	2	4	32	40	54	1	1	.231	.311	.323	.634	80.2	77.8	.295	1.5
1984	109	380	330	37	76	11	0	11	34	40	58	1	2	.230	.312	.364	.676	91.6	89.2	.311	1.9
1985	132	420	362	54	92	19	0	12	52	50	87	0	1	.254	.345	.406	.751	111.7	107.7	.341	3.2
1986	122	382	327	42	68	15	1	13	29	45	78	1	0	.208	.309	.379	.689	90.7	87.5	.315	1.9
1987	60	170	141	16	25	10	0	1	9	23	29	0	0	.177	.295	.270	.565	56.8	50.9	.269	0.2
1988	77	198	167	25	42	13	0	7	30	25	44	1	0	.251	.338	.455	.793	132.9	131.4	.361	2.2
1989	79	183	151	16	27	7	0	4	16	30	37	1	0	.179	.319	.305	.623	87.4	82.1	.300	0.9
1990	62	151	128	13	25	5	0	2	15	23	29	1	0	.195	.318	.281	.599	79.0	69.7	.295	0.6
1991	61	174	147	15	34	5	0	4	21	23	20	0	2	.231	.329	.347	.676	92.5	90.1	.315	0.9
1992	8	11	9	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.111	.273	.111	.384	25.6	11.9	.221	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
1991	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	0	2.0	4.50	2.000	0.00	4.41	109.8	89.2	0.9

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

1,766

442nd-most career G

5,407

4,692

525

1,093

223

RBI

471

592

736

.2329

OBP

.3187

SLG

.3470

OPS

.6657

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

0.00

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	BB	TB
1985-04-18	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1981-05-16	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	2	1	2	0	8
1980-04-29	NYY @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	8
1984-08-19	LAA @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1986-04-10	CLE @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1991-07-02	BOS @ MIL Gameday	1.0	3	1	1	0	0	0
1991-08-03	TEX @ MIL Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	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× World Series MVP

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.