Ron Davis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornAugust 6, 1955 · Houston, TX, USA

MLB debutJuly 29, 1978

Final gameSeptember 24, 1988

Seasons11 (1978–1988)

New York Yankees 1978–1981; Minnesota Twins 1982–1985; Chicago Cubs 1986; Minnesota Twins 1986; Chicago Cubs 1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1987; San Francisco Giants 1988

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

sWAR

7.4

83.6

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1978	4	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1979	44	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.8	-100.0	.000	2.0
1980	53	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.9	-100.0	.000	2.7
1981	43	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1982	63	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1983	66	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
1984	64	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1985	57	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1986	53	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.5	-100.0	.000	-2.4
1987	25	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1988	9	2	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1978	4	0	0	0	3	3	3	0	0	2.3	11.57	2.571	0.00	6.41	175.1	31.6	-0.2
1979	44	14	2	9	84	27	28	43	5	85.3	2.85	1.313	4.54	3.54	86.1	144.4	2.0
1980	53	9	3	7	121	43	32	65	9	131.0	2.95	1.168	4.47	3.51	89.0	133.3	2.7
1981	43	4	5	6	47	22	25	83	6	73.0	2.71	.986	10.23	2.36	65.8	132.2	1.5
1982	63	3	9	22	106	52	47	89	16	106.0	4.42	1.443	7.56	4.33	102.8	95.4	0.8
1983	66	5	8	30	89	33	33	84	6	89.0	3.34	1.371	8.49	3.03	71.8	126.3	1.8
1984	64	7	11	29	79	42	41	74	11	83.0	4.55	1.446	8.02	4.24	101.9	91.3	0.4
1985	57	2	6	25	55	25	35	72	7	64.7	3.48	1.392	10.02	3.73	85.7	125.2	1.3
1986	53	2	8	2	86	56	32	40	10	58.7	8.59	2.011	6.14	5.47	130.3	48.6	-2.4
1987	25	0	0	0	50	24	18	32	8	36.3	5.94	1.872	7.93	5.54	131.7	71.0	-0.4
1988	9	1	1	0	15	9	6	15	4	17.3	4.67	1.212	7.79	5.19	156.6	70.9	-0.1

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

481

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

481

497th-most career G (P)

130

116th-most career SV

SHO

747

SO (P)

597

BB allowed

300

ERA

4.050

WHIP

1.3862

K/9

7.20

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
1979-07-14	NYY @ LAA Gameday	1
1980-04-20	MIL @ NYY Gameday	1
1980-05-06	NYY @ MIL Gameday	0
1981-10-20	LAD @ NYY Gameday	0
1981-10-23	NYY @ LAD Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1981-05-04	NYY @ LAA Gameday	3.0	0	0	0	0	8	0
1981-05-17	SEA @ NYY Gameday	4.0	2	1	1	4	7	0
1982-07-30	MIN @ ATH Gameday	3.2	5	3	3	2	7	1
1979-06-24	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3.1	3	0	0	2	6	0
1981-09-09	MIL @ NYY Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	5	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.