Steve Dillard
Boston Red Sox 1975–1977; Detroit Tigers 1978; Chicago Cubs 1979–1981; Chicago White Sox 1982
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 | 123.6 | 120.0 | .373 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 57 | 187 | 167 | 22 | 46 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 6 | 4 | .275 | .341 | .377 | .718 | 103.1 | 101.3 | .338 | 0.8 |
| 1977 | 66 | 154 | 141 | 22 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 3 | .241 | .270 | .312 | .582 | 45.2 | 51.9 | .263 | -0.4 |
| 1978 | 56 | 143 | 130 | 21 | 29 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 2 | .223 | .257 | .292 | .550 | 48.6 | 53.4 | .256 | -0.3 |
| 1979 | 89 | 190 | 166 | 31 | 47 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 0 | .283 | .351 | .422 | .773 | 100.8 | 102.2 | .348 | 0.8 |
| 1980 | 100 | 267 | 244 | 31 | 55 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 20 | 54 | 2 | 2 | .225 | .285 | .316 | .600 | 58.7 | 62.2 | .280 | -0.3 |
| 1981 | 53 | 127 | 119 | 18 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .218 | .268 | .345 | .612 | 66.9 | 69.4 | .288 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 16 | 42 | 41 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .171 | .190 | .293 | .483 | 22.9 | 31.2 | .215 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-08-09 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1979-08-11 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1979-08-17 | SD @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1980-08-02 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1976-09-11 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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.