Willie Davis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornApril 15, 1940 · Mineral Springs, AR, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1960

Final gameSeptember 30, 1979

Seasons18 (1960–1979)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1960–1973; Montreal Expos 1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1975; Texas Rangers 1975; San Diego Padres 1976; California Angels 1979

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified batters

141

25.4

522

9.3

493

20.3

33.1

132

24.6

20.3

94.9

28.8

RBI

3.4

94.1

53.4

82.2

.268

51.7

OBP

.295

11.9

SLG

.375

40.7

OPS

.670

31.4

wRC+

92.3

27.1

OPS+

95.7

29.7

wOBA

.310

28.8

sWAR

1.5

28.8

of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.8

49.5

OPS+

106.3

55.1

sWAR

41.0

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
1960	22	94	88	12	28	6	1	2	10	4	12	3	5	.318	.348	.477	.825	117.8	119.7	.360	0.5
1961	128	380	339	56	86	19	6	12	45	27	46	12	5	.254	.316	.451	.767	98.3	100.4	.335	1.4
1962	157	666	600	103	171	18	10	21	85	42	72	32	7	.285	.334	.453	.787	109.5	113.8	.346	3.2
1963	156	555	515	60	126	19	8	9	60	25	61	25	11	.245	.281	.365	.646	86.4	91.5	.288	1.3
1964	157	652	613	91	180	23	7	12	77	22	59	42	13	.294	.316	.413	.729	111.6	112.2	.327	3.4
1965	142	595	558	52	133	24	3	10	57	14	81	25	9	.238	.263	.346	.609	72.8	77.1	.272	0.3
1966	153	653	624	74	177	31	6	11	61	15	68	21	10	.284	.302	.405	.708	102.3	103.9	.315	2.7
1967	143	610	569	65	146	27	9	6	41	29	65	20	6	.257	.295	.367	.662	95.6	97.0	.303	2.0
1968	160	686	643	86	161	24	10	7	31	31	88	36	10	.250	.284	.351	.636	95.5	97.5	.295	2.3
1969	129	540	498	66	155	23	8	11	59	33	39	24	10	.311	.356	.456	.811	133.7	134.5	.369	4.3
1970	146	637	593	92	181	23	16	8	93	29	54	38	14	.305	.335	.438	.774	110.7	111.4	.349	3.2
1971	158	672	641	84	198	33	10	10	74	23	47	20	8	.309	.330	.438	.769	122.6	123.3	.349	4.4
1972	149	654	615	81	178	22	7	19	79	27	61	20	3	.289	.317	.441	.758	115.6	117.3	.342	3.7
1973	152	641	599	82	171	29	9	16	77	29	62	17	5	.285	.320	.444	.764	110.7	116.0	.340	3.2
1974	153	654	611	86	180	27	9	12	89	27	69	25	7	.295	.322	.427	.749	99.2	104.3	.340	2.4
1975	140	550	519	57	144	27	8	11	67	18	52	23	6	.277	.304	.424	.728	97.1	100.2	.332	1.4
1976	141	522	493	61	132	18	10	5	46	19	34	14	2	.268	.295	.375	.670	92.3	95.7	.310	1.5
1979	43	61	56	9	14	2	1	0	2	4	7	1	0	.250	.300	.321	.621	72.3	70.8	.288	-0.1

Career totals

2,429

80th-most career G

9,822

97th-most career PA

9,174

65th-most career AB

1,217

178th-most career R

2,561

93rd-most career H

395

212th-most career 2B

138

66th-most career 3B

182

463rd-most career HR

RBI

1,053

263rd-most career RBI

418

977

414th-most career SO

398

76th-most career SB

.2792

OBP

.3111

SLG

.4118

OPS

.7229

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
1973-05-02	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	2	3	11
1961-05-27	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	5	11
1963-05-08	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	3	11
1970-07-03	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	3	9
1967-09-04	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-08-16	LAD @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-08-17	LAD @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-08-20	LAD @ HOU Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	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

3× Gold Glove2× 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.