Don Drysdale played 14 seasons (1956–1969) for LAD. Career regular-season line: a 209–166 record, 2,486 strikeouts and a 2.95 ERA. Late Developer career, peaking in 1964. Led the league in a statistical category 4 times. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984. Honors: 8× All-Star Selections and 1× Cy Young Awards.
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Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
14 seasons · peak 16.4 in 1964
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
40.1 career wins over 14 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1964 · +6.3 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Don Drysdale led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 10 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1964, 14 rated seasons.
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10
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
Where Don Drysdale ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
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Cross-sport prominence: 97.8th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Gave the Los Angeles Dodgers an entire corpus-attributed career — 14 seasons (1956–1969), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamMLB Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Hitters and Pitchers)MLB Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on Cooperstown's DoorstepMLB JourneymenMLB League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsMLB LoyaltyMLB Only Club — Statistical ExclusivityMLB Rarest Seasons — Statistical RarityMLB Statistical Snubs — Eligible Careers Cooperstown Has Not TakenMLB VAL Leaders — Value Above LeagueWho Was the Best MLB Player Each Year?Career Twins — Equally Dominant Careers Across Different SportsCross-Sport Era-Adjusted Careers — The Greatest Careers, One AxisCross-Sport Era-Adjusted Seasons — The Greatest Years, One Axis
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
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