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Dave Roberts
David Wayne Roberts

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3" , Weight: 215 lb.

Born: February 17, 1951 in Lebanon, OR
School: University of Oregon
Drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 1972 amateur draft.
Signed June 7, 1972. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 7, 1972
Final Game: September 18, 1982
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Dave Roberts
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Minors
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
1972	21	SDP	NL	100	443	418	38	102	17	0	5	33	7	2	18	64	.244	.275	.321	.595	75	134	5	0	6	1	1	54/62
1973	22	SDP	NL	127	503	479	56	137	20	3	21	64	11	2	17	83	.286	.310	.472	.782	123	226	6	1	3	3	3	*54
1974	23	SDP	NL	113	358	318	26	53	10	1	5	18	2	0	32	69	.167	.246	.252	.497	43	80	9	2	4	2	6	5/67
1975	24	SDP	NL	33	132	113	7	32	2	0	2	12	3	1	13	19	.283	.367	.354	.721	107	40	1	2	4	0	3	5/4

1977	26	SDP	NL	82	202	186	15	41	14	1	1	23	2	1	11	32	.220	.268	.323	.590	65	60	4	1	4	0	1	2/456
1978	27	SDP	NL	54	112	97	7	21	4	1	1	7	0	0	12	25	.216	.309	.309	.618	81	30	2	1	2	0	6	2/387
1979	28	TEX	AL	44	93	84	12	22	2	1	3	14	1	0	7	17	.262	.319	.417	.735	98	35	3	0	2	0	0	2/4389D57
1980	29	TEX	AL	101	251	235	27	56	4	0	10	30	0	1	13	38	.238	.280	.383	.663	83	90	5	1	1	1	2	562/934
1981	30	HOU	NL	27	59	54	4	13	3	0	1	5	1	0	3	6	.241	.271	.352	.623	80	19	1	0	0	2	0	3/542
1982	31	PHI	NL	28	36	33	2	6	1	0	0	2	0	1	2	8	.182	.229	.212	.441	23	7	0	0	1	0	0	52/4
10 Seasons				709	2189	2017	194	483	77	7	49	208	27	8	128	361	.239	.286	.357	.644	84	721	36	8	27	9	22
162 Game Avg.				162	500	461	44	110	18	2	11	48	6	2	29	82	.239	.286	.357	.644	84	165	8	2	6	2	5

SDP (6 yrs)				509	1750	1611	149	386	67	6	35	157	25	6	103	292	.240	.287	.354	.641	84	570	27	7	23	6	20
TEX (2 yrs)				145	344	319	39	78	6	1	13	44	1	1	20	55	.245	.290	.392	.682	87	125	8	1	3	1	2
PHI (1 yr)				28	36	33	2	6	1	0	0	2	0	1	2	8	.182	.229	.212	.441	23	7	0	0	1	0	0
HOU (1 yr)				27	59	54	4	13	3	0	1	5	1	0	3	6	.241	.271	.352	.623	80	19	1	0	0	2	0

NL (8 yrs)				564	1845	1698	155	405	71	6	36	164	26	7	108	306	.239	.286	.351	.637	83	596	28	7	24	8	20
AL (2 yrs)				145	344	319	39	78	6	1	13	44	1	1	20	55	.245	.290	.392	.682	87	125	8	1	3	1	2

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1972	21	SDP	NL	443	330	37	3.0	85	.277	.244	.247	.275	.314	.321	.365	.595	.679	75	.370	-13.8	-1.5	.486	.132	.077	5.8
1973	22	SDP	NL	503	356	70	5.3	89	.307	.286	.252	.310	.319	.472	.374	.782	.694	123	.596	11.7	1.2	.723	.240	.186	14.4
1974	23	SDP	NL	358	280	20	1.9	90	.195	.167	.256	.246	.328	.252	.371	.497	.698	43	.190	-24.2	-2.5	.423	.192	.085	2.9
1975	24	SDP	NL	132	87	16	5.0	91	.326	.283	.258	.367	.328	.354	.373	.721	.701	107	.563	1.5	0.2	.687	.204	.071	2.4

1977	26	SDP	NL	202	154	16	2.8	94	.261	.220	.257	.268	.323	.323	.392	.590	.715	65	.286	-8.5	-0.8	.487	.167	.102	1.3
1978	27	SDP	NL	112	80	9	3.0	87	.282	.216	.251	.309	.318	.309	.370	.618	.687	81	.354	-2.1	-0.2	.551	.216	.093	.0
1979	28	TEX	AL	93	67	11	4.4	101	.297	.262	.268	.319	.333	.417	.407	.735	.740	98	.467	-0.6	-0.1	.662	.250	.155	1.5
1980	29	TEX	AL	251	187	24	3.5	96	.245	.238	.266	.280	.327	.383	.394	.663	.721	83	.373	-6.7	-0.7	.557	.196	.145	.0
1981	30	HOU	NL	59	44	5	3.1	88	.245	.241	.256	.271	.321	.352	.368	.623	.689	80	.370	-1.3	-0.1	.548	.185	.111	1.0
1982	31	PHI	NL	36	29	2	1.9	97	.240	.182	.269	.229	.333	.212	.391	.441	.724	23	.183	-3.5	-0.4	.286	.061	.030
10 Seasons				2189	1614	210	3.5	90	.269	.239	.255	.286	.322	.357	.377	.644	.699	84	.406	-47.6	-4.9	.555	.191	.118	34.8
162 Game Avg.				500	369	48	3.5	90	.269	.239	.255	.286	.322	.357	.377	.644	.699	84	.406	-47.6	-4.9	.555	.191	.118	8

SDP (6 yrs)				1750	1287	168	3.5	89	.272	.240	.253	.287	.321	.354	.373	.641	.693	84	.414	-35.4	-3.6	.556	.190	.114	29.2
TEX (2 yrs)				344	254	35	3.7	97	.258	.245	.266	.290	.329	.392	.397	.682	.726	87	.399	-7.3	-0.8	.584	.210	.147	1.9
PHI (1 yr)				36	29	2	1.9	97	.240	.182	.269	.229	.333	.212	.391	.441	.724	23	.183	-3.5	-0.4	.286	.061	.030
HOU (1 yr)				59	44	5	3.1	88	.245	.241	.256	.271	.321	.352	.368	.623	.689	80	.370	-1.3	-0.1	.548	.185	.111	1.0

NL (8 yrs)				1845	1360	175	3.5	89	.271	.239	.253	.286	.321	.351	.373	.637	.694	83	.408	-40.2	-4.1	.550	.187	.112	30.2
AL (2 yrs)				344	254	35	3.7	97	.258	.245	.266	.290	.329	.392	.397	.682	.726	87	.399	-7.3	-0.8	.584	.210	.147	1.9

Postseason Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1981	30	HOU	NL	NLDS	LAD	L	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 NLDS							1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1972	21	SDP	NL	443	1.1%	14.5%	4.1%	5.0%	22%	3.56	6.5	83.6	12.7	1.06	79%
1973	22	SDP	NL	503	4.2%	16.5%	3.4%	8.8%	32%	4.88	5.8	22.8	7.5	0.86	75%
1974	23	SDP	NL	358	1.4%	19.3%	8.9%	4.5%	30%	2.16	4.6	63.6	17.7	0.97	69%
1975	24	SDP	NL	132	1.5%	14.4%	9.9%	3.0%	13%	1.46	5.9	56.5	9.4	1.17	70%

1977	26	SDP	NL	202	0.5%	15.8%	5.5%	7.9%	39%	2.91	5.8	186.0	8.1	0.87	76%
1978	27	SDP	NL	112	0.9%	22.3%	10.7%	5.4%	29%	2.08	3.9	97.0	13.9	0.39	63%
1979	28	TEX	AL	93	3.2%	18.3%	7.5%	6.5%	27%	2.43	4.9	28.0	6.0	0.75	69%
1980	29	TEX	AL	251	4.0%	15.1%	5.2%	5.6%	25%	2.92	6.2	23.5	7.8	0.76	75%
1981	30	HOU	NL	59	1.7%	10.2%	5.1%	6.8%	31%	2.00	9.0	54.0	10.8	0.33	83%
1982	31	PHI	NL	36	0.0%	22.2%	5.6%	2.8%	17%	4.00	4.1		16.5	0.43	69%
10 Seasons				2189	2.2%	16.5%	5.9%	6.1%	28%	2.82	5.6	41.2	9.7	0.86	74%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1972	21	SDP	NL	6	0	29%	166	7	2	78%	7	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	5	10	61%	14	6	7	6	2	4	8	1	6
1973	22	SDP	NL	9	0	26%	152	11	2	85%	11	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	8	8	43%	21	13	7	8	4	4	8	2	5
1974	23	SDP	NL	3	2	26%	133	2	0	100%	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	6	26%	18	16	2	2	2	0	11	3	6
1975	24	SDP	NL	1	0	11%	51	3	1	75%	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	33%	9	7	2	2	1	1	1	0	1

1977	26	SDP	NL	5	0	27%	63	2	1	67%	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	50%	10	7	3	0	0	0	6	0	5
1978	27	SDP	NL	1	0	18%	44	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	22%	5	5	0	0	0	0	4	0	2
1979	28	TEX	AL	1	0	35%	51	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	18%	9	8	1	0	0	0	2	1	1
1980	29	TEX	AL	7	0	28%	89	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	46%	12	7	5	2	1	1	8	3	4
1981	30	HOU	NL	2	0	20%	20	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	25%	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
1982	31	PHI	NL	0	0	25%	10	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	67%	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1
10 Seasons				35	2	25%	779	27	8	77%	27	7	0	1	0	0	7	1	29	33	41%	103	72	28	20	10	10	50	10	32
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1972	21	SDP	NL	443	22%	102			0	0	0	0		5	0	5	4	1	2	3	0	7	6	86%	72	5	7%	40	15	38%	212	29	14%	20	10	50%	22	12	55%	0
1973	22	SDP	NL	493	33%	137			8	1	0	0	1.25	21	0	7	14	7	10	11	1	3	3	100%	94	6	6%	34	12	35%	280	44	16%	25	12	48%	39	16	41%	10
1974	23	SDP	NL	360	34%	53			4	1	0	0	0.66	5	0	10	1	4	2	3	0	6	4	67%	59	9	15%	35	10	29%	227	14	6%	18	5	28%	22	6	27%	0
1975	24	SDP	NL	132	30%	32			0	0	0	0		2	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	5	4	80%	18	1	6%	10	7	70%	77	11	14%	5	3	60%	11	6	55%	0

1977	26	SDP	NL	202	31%	41			16	3	0	1	1.17	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	4	100%	42	4	10%	23	10	43%	143	23	16%	12	5	42%	20	10	50%	0
1978	27	SDP	NL	112	61%	21			4	0	0	0	2.38	1	0	6	1	0	1	0	0	3	2	67%	16	2	13%	9	1	11%	77	6	8%	7	1	14%	6	2	33%	0
1979	28	TEX	AL	93	48%	22			2	1	1	1	3.41	3	0	3	0	3	0	3	0	2	2	100%	19	3	16%	12	5	42%	62	11	18%	7	3	43%	7	1	14%	0
1980	29	TEX	AL	251	41%	56			14	4	1	1	1.77	10	1	11	5	5	5	5	0	2	1	50%	47	5	11%	24	6	25%	171	20	12%	14	4	29%	24	6	25%	0
1981	30	HOU	NL	59	61%	13			12	3	0	1	2.41	1	0	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	0		13	1	8%	6	4	67%	45	4	9%	5	3	60%	4	1	25%	0
1982	31	PHI	NL	36	33%	6			2	0	0	0	1.54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	4	0	0%	2	1	50%	19	2	11%	1	0	0%	0	0		0
10 Seasons				2181	34%	483			62	13	2	4	1.69	49	1	49	26	23	21	28	1	33	27	82%	384	36	9%	195	71	36%	1313	164	12%	114	46	40%	155	60	39%	10
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1972	21	100	443	418	38	102	17	0	5	33	7	2	18	64	.244	.275	.321	.595	75	134	5	0	6	1	1
1973	22	227	946	897	94	239	37	3	26	97	18	4	35	147	.266	.293	.401	.695	101	360	11	1	9	4	4
1974	23	340	1304	1215	120	292	47	4	31	115	20	4	67	216	.240	.280	.362	.643	86	440	20	3	13	6	10
1975	24	373	1436	1328	127	324	49	4	33	127	23	5	80	235	.244	.288	.361	.650	88	480	21	5	17	6	13
1976	25	373	1436	1328	127	324	49	4	33	127	23	5	80	235	.244	.288	.361	.650	88	480	21	5	17	6	13
1977	26	455	1638	1514	142	365	63	5	34	150	25	6	91	267	.241	.286	.357	.642	85	540	25	6	21	6	14
1978	27	509	1750	1611	149	386	67	6	35	157	25	6	103	292	.240	.287	.354	.641	84	570	27	7	23	6	20
1979	28	553	1843	1695	161	408	69	7	38	171	26	6	110	309	.241	.289	.357	.646	85	605	30	7	25	6	20
1980	29	654	2094	1930	188	464	73	7	48	201	26	7	123	347	.240	.288	.360	.648	85	695	35	8	26	7	22
1981	30	681	2153	1984	192	477	76	7	49	206	27	7	126	353	.240	.287	.360	.647	85	714	36	8	26	9	22
1982	31	709	2189	2017	194	483	77	7	49	208	27	8	128	361	.239	.286	.357	.644	84	721	36	8	27	9	22

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1972	21	105	473	451	49	121	20	0	6	43	8	21	67	.268	.300	.353	.653	48	100
1973	22	127	515	492	66	150	22	3	23	75	12	19	83	.305	.330	.502	.832	82	127
1974	23	113	360	322	29	57	11	1	5	20	2	34	69	.177	.258	.264	.522	22	113
1975	24	33	135	118	8	37	2	0	2	14	3	15	19	.314	.400	.381	.781	18	33

1977	26	82	201	188	16	43	15	1	1	25	2	12	32	.229	.279	.335	.614	17	82
1978	27	54	115	100	8	24	5	1	1	8	0	14	25	.240	.339	.340	.679	11	54
1979	28	44	91	84	12	22	2	1	3	14	1	7	17	.262	.319	.417	.735	11	44
1980	29	101	251	236	29	57	4	0	10	32	0	13	38	.242	.283	.386	.668	26	101
1981	30	41	91	83	7	21	5	0	2	8	2	5	9	.253	.286	.386	.671	9	27
1982	31	28	36	34	3	7	1	0	0	3	0	2	8	.206	.250	.235	.485	2	28
10 Seasons		728	2268	2108	227	539	87	7	53	242	30	142	367	.256	.304	.379	.683	246	709
162 Game Avg.		162	505	469	51	120	19	2	12	54	7	32	82	.256	.304	.379	.683	55	709

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1973 NL--14.4--9th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 3 (3165), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Similar Batters

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Juan Uribe (952) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tommy Brown (950) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ken McMullen (969) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Randy Hundley (971) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Bobby Knoop (982) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Andy Etchebarren (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Les Moss (980) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Frank House (977) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Frank House (974) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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