Dave Parker

1973–1991 · 19 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1951

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1973	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	54	144	139	17	40	9	1	4	14	2	27	1	.288	.308	.453	.761	0.9
1974	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	73	233	220	27	62	10	3	4	29	10	53	3	.282	.322	.409	.731	0.9
1975	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	148	602	558	75	172	35	10	25	101	38	89	8	.308	.357	.541	.898	5.5
1976	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	138	573	537	82	168	28	10	13	90	30	80	19	.313	.349	.475	.824	4.2
1977GG	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	159	706	637	107	215	44	8	21	88	58	107	17	.338	.397	.531	.927	7.0
1978MVPGG	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	148	642	581	102	194	32	12	30	117	57	92	20	.334	.394	.585	.979	7.0
1979GG	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	158	707	622	109	193	45	7	25	94	67	101	20	.310	.380	.526	.906	5.3
1980	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	139	550	518	71	153	31	1	17	79	25	69	10	.295	.327	.458	.785	1.5
1981	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	67	254	240	29	62	14	3	9	48	9	25	6	.258	.287	.454	.742	0.4
1982	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	73	270	244	41	66	19	3	6	29	22	45	7	.270	.330	.447	.776	0.5
1983	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	144	586	552	68	154	29	4	12	69	28	89	12	.279	.311	.411	.722	0.1
1984	Cincinnati Reds	NL	156	655	607	73	173	28	0	16	94	41	89	11	.285	.328	.410	.738	0.8
1985SS	Cincinnati Reds	NL	160	694	635	88	198	42	4	34	125	52	80	5	.312	.365	.551	.916	5.0
1986SS	Cincinnati Reds	NL	162	700	637	89	174	31	3	31	116	56	126	1	.273	.330	.477	.807	1.4
1987	Cincinnati Reds	NL	153	647	589	77	149	28	0	26	97	44	104	7	.253	.311	.433	.744	0.5
1988	Oakland Athletics	AL	101	411	377	43	97	18	1	12	55	32	70	0	.257	.314	.406	.720	1.4
1989	Oakland Athletics	AL	144	600	553	56	146	27	0	22	97	38	91	0	.264	.308	.432	.741	2.6
1990SS	Milwaukee Brewers	AL	157	669	610	71	176	30	3	21	92	41	102	4	.289	.330	.451	.781	3.2
1991	California Angels	AL	132	541	502	47	120	26	2	11	59	33	98	3	.239	.288	.365	.653	0.4
Career	19 seasons		2466	10184	9358	1272	2712	526	75	339	1493	683	1537	154	.290	.342	.471	.813	48.7

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League), AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.