MLB / Players

Ron Darling

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 19, 1960 · Honolulu, HI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1983

Final gameAugust 15, 1995

Seasons13 (1983–1995)

New York Mets 1983–1990; Montreal Expos 1991; New York Mets 1991; Oakland Athletics 1991–1995

Percentile snapshot

1994 season — qualified pitchers

72.7

60.2

6.8

72.7

SHO

162

29.5

20.5

108

56.8

31.8

160.0

68.2

ERA

4.50

36.4

WHIP

1.381

K/9

6.08

47.7

FIP

4.55

38.6

FIP-

100.7

37.5

ERA+

100.3

31.8

sWAR

1.6

36.4

of 89 qualified 1994 pitchers (min 114 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.2

23.3

sWAR

20.1

93.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1983	5	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-63.2	-44.1	.093	0.6
1984	39	75	67	7	10	1	0	0	3	1	19	0	.149	.159	.164	.324	-20.0	-7.8	.152	1.2
1985	42	93	76	9	13	4	0	0	0	4	25	1	.171	.213	.224	.436	20.0	24.5	.208	4.4
1986	34	94	81	4	8	2	0	0	0	3	29	0	.099	.131	.123	.254	-38.5	-27.9	.124	4.3
1987	32	77	65	5	8	5	0	0	4	2	22	0	.123	.149	.200	.349	-13.2	-5.7	.159	1.1
1988	34	92	82	4	18	4	2	0	4	1	21	0	.220	.229	.317	.546	54.4	59.7	.249	3.0
1989	35	80	73	8	9	1	0	2	5	1	28	0	.123	.147	.219	.366	-2.5	6.3	.169	1.7
1990	34	39	31	2	4	0	0	0	2	3	12	0	.129	.206	.129	.335	-5.5	-4.8	.175	0.1
1991	32	46	40	0	5	4	0	0	3	0	16	0	.125	.125	.225	.350	-16.8	-2.7	.155	0.7
1992	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1993	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1994	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-109.3	-100.0	.000	1.6
1995	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1983	5	5	1	3	1	0	31	11	17	23	0	35.3	2.80	1.358	5.86	3.07	84.8	129.3	0.6
1984	33	33	12	9	2	2	179	87	104	136	17	205.7	3.81	1.376	5.95	4.13	117.0	92.8	1.2
1985	36	35	16	6	4	2	214	80	114	167	21	248.0	2.90	1.323	6.06	3.79	108.7	120.0	4.4
1986	34	34	15	6	4	2	203	74	81	184	21	237.0	2.81	1.198	6.99	3.41	94.9	127.8	4.3
1987	32	32	12	8	2	0	183	99	96	167	24	207.7	4.29	1.343	7.24	4.19	108.4	90.2	1.1
1988	34	34	17	9	7	4	218	87	60	161	24	240.7	3.25	1.155	6.02	3.48	105.7	101.1	3.0
1989	33	33	14	14	4	0	214	85	70	153	19	217.3	3.52	1.307	6.34	3.40	102.0	94.6	1.7
1990	33	18	7	9	1	0	135	63	44	99	20	126.0	4.50	1.421	7.07	4.47	118.8	83.6	0.1
1991	32	32	8	15	0	0	185	92	71	129	22	194.3	4.26	1.317	5.97	4.22	113.1	87.7	0.7
1992	33	33	15	10	4	3	198	84	72	99	15	206.3	3.66	1.309	4.32	3.88	102.8	103.0	2.3
1993	31	29	5	9	3	0	198	102	72	95	22	178.0	5.16	1.517	4.80	4.84	117.1	80.1	-0.2
1994	25	25	10	11	4	0	162	80	59	108	18	160.0	4.50	1.381	6.08	4.55	100.7	100.3	1.6
1995	21	21	4	7	1	0	124	72	46	69	16	104.0	6.23	1.635	5.97	5.26	115.6	73.0	-0.8

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

402

608

526

RBI

175

.1445

OBP

.1694

SLG

.2034

OPS

.3728

Pitching

G (P)

382

364

194th-most career GS

136

335th-most career W

116

380th-most career L

SHO

478th-most career SHO

2,360

293rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,590

204th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

906

158th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.874

WHIP

1.3346

K/9

6.06

357th-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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1988-10-02	STL @ NYM Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	0	2	5
1989-06-30	NYM @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	3	5
1985-08-03	NYM @ CHC Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	0	4
1989-06-24	PHI @ NYM Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1984-06-25	NYM @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1986-05-27	LAD @ NYM Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	12	1
1984-08-29	LAD @ NYM Gameday	7.0	3	1	1	5	12	0
1985-04-26	PIT @ NYM Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	3	11	0
1987-08-07	CHC @ NYM Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	11	1
1987-06-23	CHC @ NYM Gameday	8.0	4	4	4	2	11	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× Gold Glove1× 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.