Art Ditmar

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornApril 3, 1929 · Winthrop, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1954

Final gameMay 19, 1962

Seasons9 (1954–1962)

Philadelphia Athletics 1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1956; New York Yankees 1957–1960; Kansas City Athletics 1961; New York Yankees 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1962

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified pitchers

27.8

35.2

68.5

70.4

35.2

SHO

195

57.4

81.5

75.9

3.7

18.5

200.0

40.7

ERA

3.06

83.3

WHIP

1.255

64.8

K/9

2.93

5.6

FIP

4.23

11.1

FIP-

115.9

5.6

ERA+

119.4

77.8

sWAR

3.3

64.8

of 55 qualified 1960 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.6

28.3

sWAR

10.8

87.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	14	11	8	0	1	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	.125	.300	.125	.425	28.5	18.0	.244	-0.8
1955	35	67	62	3	13	0	0	6	1	9	0	0	.210	.222	.210	.432	3.1	15.0	.205	-0.1
1956	44	98	91	5	13	0	1	4	3	24	0	1	.143	.170	.176	.346	-23.0	-9.4	.165	1.7
1957	46	36	35	3	7	0	0	2	0	9	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-1.2	11.9	.185	1.8
1958	38	48	44	8	11	0	0	5	2	10	0	0	.250	.283	.250	.533	49.5	52.0	.251	1.8
1959	38	78	76	6	15	4	1	11	0	10	1	0	.197	.195	.289	.484	24.5	34.3	.214	4.0
1960	36	76	69	2	11	2	0	2	4	14	0	0	.159	.205	.188	.394	6.0	10.9	.190	3.3
1961	32	33	31	0	3	0	0	1	1	7	0	0	.097	.125	.097	.222	-51.1	-39.2	.109	-0.6
1962	6	6	6	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-29.4	-11.9	.152	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	14	5	1	4	0	0	0	50	28	36	14	4	39.3	6.41	2.186	3.20	5.81	150.3	60.3	-0.8
1955	35	22	12	12	1	7	1	180	98	86	79	23	175.3	5.03	1.517	4.06	4.82	117.5	81.7	-0.1
1956	44	34	12	22	1	14	2	254	125	108	126	30	254.3	4.42	1.423	4.46	4.40	103.1	96.6	1.7
1957	46	11	8	3	6	0	0	128	46	35	64	9	127.3	3.25	1.280	4.52	3.19	86.9	112.7	1.8
1958	38	13	9	8	4	4	0	124	53	38	52	14	139.7	3.42	1.160	3.35	3.93	109.2	105.2	1.8
1959	38	25	13	9	1	7	1	156	65	52	96	17	202.0	2.90	1.030	4.28	3.50	94.4	127.9	4.0
1960	34	28	15	9	0	8	1	195	68	56	65	25	200.0	3.06	1.255	2.93	4.23	115.9	119.4	3.3
1961	32	13	2	8	1	1	0	119	62	37	43	15	108.3	5.15	1.440	3.57	4.64	117.2	77.1	-0.6
1962	6	5	0	2	0	0	0	31	16	13	13	1	21.7	6.65	2.031	5.40	3.99	95.5	62.9	-0.4

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

289

453

422

RBI

.1777

OBP

.2018

SLG

.2062

OPS

.4080

Pitching

G (P)

287

156

SHO

1,268

SO (P)

552

BB allowed

461

ERA

3.982

WHIP

1.3391

K/9

3.92

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	HR	RBI	TB
1959-08-28	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	3	5
1958-07-04	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	4
1956-09-11	NYY @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	1	1	4
1958-07-23	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	3
1955-05-14	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1956-06-13	ATH @ MIN Gameday	7.0	8	3	3	2	9	0
1956-08-03	MIN @ ATH Gameday	10.1	9	2	2	3	8	0
1956-06-27	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	5	4	3	8	1
1956-07-29	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	5	5	6	8	3
1959-09-03	MIN @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	2	7	2

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.