Dazzy Vance

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornMarch 4, 1891 · Orient, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1915

Final gameAugust 14, 1935

Seasons16 (1915–1935)

New York Yankees 1915; Pittsburgh Pirates 1915; New York Yankees 1918; Brooklyn Robins 1922–1931; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932; St. Louis Cardinals 1933; Cincinnati Reds 1934; St. Louis Cardinals 1934; Brooklyn Dodgers 1935

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified pitchers

51.1

67.2

67.9

27.7

59.9

49.6

SHO

171

46.7

35.8

32.1

103

85.4

31.4

175.7

59.1

ERA

4.20

33.6

WHIP

1.298

64.2

K/9

5.28

86.9

FIP

3.47

FIP-

90.5

74.5

ERA+

91.3

23.4

sWAR

0.7

23.4

of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

124.2

93.3

sWAR

52.5

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1915	9	8	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	.500	.714	.750	1.464	324.6	371.2	.671	0.0
1918	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1922	36	100	89	9	20	3	0	0	6	3	25	1	.225	.266	.258	.524	35.2	36.8	.249	3.4
1923	37	104	83	5	7	0	1	1	1	14	28	0	.084	.216	.145	.361	6.2	-1.6	.196	3.6
1924	35	125	106	7	16	0	0	2	11	10	29	0	.151	.231	.208	.438	19.7	20.1	.216	8.4
1925	31	109	98	8	14	3	0	3	11	8	33	0	.143	.215	.265	.480	20.3	23.3	.224	4.5
1926	24	62	55	2	10	0	0	0	7	4	14	0	.182	.237	.182	.419	13.3	14.8	.209	1.3
1927	34	102	90	10	15	3	0	0	9	6	26	0	.167	.219	.200	.419	10.0	13.3	.205	6.2
1928	38	108	96	7	17	6	0	0	9	9	34	0	.177	.262	.240	.501	32.3	33.0	.246	8.6
1929	31	82	74	4	10	3	0	0	1	5	21	0	.135	.200	.176	.376	-6.2	-4.8	.185	3.7
1930	35	100	89	4	12	2	0	0	7	8	26	0	.135	.206	.157	.363	-7.7	-9.7	.181	7.9
1931	30	79	67	6	9	0	0	0	3	5	20	0	.134	.194	.134	.329	-15.5	-9.6	.167	3.1
1932	27	65	56	2	5	0	0	0	3	4	12	0	.089	.150	.089	.239	-39.3	-33.4	.125	0.7
1933	28	31	28	1	5	1	0	0	3	0	8	0	.179	.179	.214	.393	-7.4	9.7	.180	0.8
1934	25	20	19	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	8	0	.158	.158	.368	.526	20.8	35.0	.224	0.5
1935	20	17	17	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	.059	.059	.059	.118	-82.4	-68.1	.054	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1915	9	4	0	4	0	1	0	26	14	21	18	1	30.7	4.11	1.533	5.28	3.97	138.5	70.5	0.0
1918	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	4	2	0	0	2.3	15.43	4.714	0.00	4.73	168.5	18.2	-0.4
1922	36	30	18	12	0	16	5	259	101	94	134	9	245.7	3.70	1.437	4.91	3.70	91.7	109.2	3.4
1923	37	35	18	15	0	21	3	263	109	100	197	10	280.3	3.50	1.295	6.32	3.21	82.7	110.8	3.6
1924	35	34	28	6	0	30	3	238	74	77	262	11	308.3	2.16	1.022	7.65	2.55	68.1	173.6	8.4
1925	31	31	22	9	0	26	4	247	104	66	221	8	265.3	3.53	1.180	7.50	2.69	64.5	118.3	4.5
1926	24	22	9	10	1	12	0	172	73	58	140	7	169.0	3.89	1.361	7.46	2.84	75.1	97.1	1.3
1927	34	32	16	15	1	25	2	242	82	69	184	12	273.3	2.70	1.138	6.06	3.04	78.3	143.7	6.2
1928	38	32	22	10	2	24	4	226	65	72	200	11	280.3	2.09	1.063	6.42	2.70	69.1	187.1	8.6
1929	31	26	14	13	0	17	1	244	100	47	126	15	231.3	3.89	1.258	4.90	3.79	82.5	118.1	3.7
1930	35	31	17	15	0	20	4	241	75	55	173	15	258.7	2.61	1.144	6.02	3.66	74.9	187.5	7.9
1931	30	29	11	13	0	12	2	221	82	53	150	12	218.7	3.38	1.253	6.17	3.04	79.6	113.1	3.1
1932	27	24	12	11	1	9	1	171	82	57	103	10	175.7	4.20	1.298	5.28	3.47	90.5	91.3	0.7
1933	28	11	6	2	3	2	0	105	39	28	67	3	99.0	3.55	1.343	6.09	2.49	71.9	97.6	0.8
1934	25	6	1	3	1	1	0	90	39	25	42	5	77.0	4.56	1.494	4.91	3.93	94.5	91.5	0.5
1935	20	0	3	2	2	0	0	55	25	16	28	3	51.0	4.41	1.392	4.94	3.81	96.0	89.9	0.1

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

442

1,112

971

146

RBI

287

.1504

OBP

.2195

SLG

.1977

OPS

.4172

Pitching

G (P)

442

347

223rd-most career GS

197

125th-most career W

140

213th-most career L

216

116th-most career CG

SHO

125th-most career SHO

2,967

142nd-most career IP

SO (P)

2,045

84th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

840

218th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.240

282nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2300

256th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.20

336th-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	TB
1925-07-20	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	3	6
1927-05-12	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	0	5
1928-08-15	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	2	5
1925-07-09	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	3	5
1924-06-28	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1925-07-20	STL @ LAD Gameday	10.0	9	3	3	6	17
1923-05-02	LAD @ SF Gameday	10.0	15	6	6	4	15
1924-08-23	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	5	5	5	15
1926-09-26	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	1	15
1928-06-17	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	15

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

Hall of Fame, 1955 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player1× Pitching Triple Crown

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.