Del Rice

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 27, 1922 · Portsmouth, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 2, 1945

Final gameAugust 31, 1961

Seasons17 (1945–1961)

St. Louis Cardinals 1945–1954; Milwaukee Braves 1955; St. Louis Cardinals 1955; Milwaukee Braves 1956–1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960; Chicago Cubs 1960; St. Louis Cardinals 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

147

53.3

537

25.3

495

26.7

128

21.3

70.7

9.3

42.7

RBI

50.7

70.7

86.7

.259

26.7

OBP

.313

9.3

SLG

.388

34.7

OPS

.701

18.7

wRC+

91.0

13.3

OPS+

93.6

14.7

wOBA

.321

9.3

sWAR

2.5

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

76.7

7.2

OPS+

79.2

8.6

sWAR

12.4

89.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1945	83	277	253	27	66	17	3	1	28	16	33	0	0	.261	.313	.364	.676	85.5	88.3	.320	1.1
1946	55	150	139	10	38	8	1	1	12	8	16	0	0	.273	.313	.367	.680	86.1	90.9	.321	0.7
1947	97	301	261	28	57	7	3	12	44	36	40	1	0	.218	.315	.406	.722	86.5	88.3	.332	1.3
1948	100	338	290	24	57	10	1	4	34	37	46	1	0	.197	.298	.279	.578	55.2	54.7	.281	0.1
1949	92	325	284	25	67	16	1	4	29	30	40	0	0	.236	.320	.342	.661	75.6	75.6	.310	0.9
1950	130	471	414	39	101	20	3	9	54	43	65	0	0	.244	.323	.372	.694	78.6	79.6	.318	1.4
1951	122	419	374	34	94	13	1	9	47	34	26	0	0	.251	.319	.364	.682	81.8	83.2	.314	1.5
1952	147	537	495	43	128	27	2	11	65	33	38	0	1	.259	.313	.388	.701	91.0	93.6	.321	2.5
1953	135	480	419	32	99	22	1	6	37	48	49	0	0	.236	.323	.337	.660	73.3	72.2	.305	1.1
1954	56	167	147	13	37	10	1	2	16	16	21	0	1	.252	.321	.374	.695	78.1	80.1	.316	0.5
1955	47	146	130	11	26	3	1	3	14	13	18	0	0	.200	.271	.308	.579	51.9	55.8	.260	0.0
1956	71	208	188	15	40	9	1	3	17	18	34	0	0	.213	.282	.319	.601	57.9	67.1	.261	0.2
1957	54	163	144	15	33	1	1	9	20	17	37	0	0	.229	.309	.438	.746	95.1	106.6	.313	0.8
1958	43	132	121	10	27	7	0	1	8	8	30	0	0	.223	.271	.306	.577	56.4	60.1	.261	0.1
1959	13	32	29	3	6	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	0	.207	.250	.207	.457	27.9	29.3	.217	-0.1
1960	20	59	55	2	12	3	0	0	4	3	7	0	0	.218	.254	.273	.527	34.2	43.5	.234	-0.1
1961	44	107	83	11	20	4	0	4	11	20	19	0	1	.241	.385	.434	.818	107.6	113.7	.358	0.7

Career totals

1,309

4,312

3,826

342

908

177

RBI

441

382

522

.2373

OBP

.3116

SLG

.3560

OPS

.6676

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1956-06-21	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	1	8
1947-08-19	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	4	8
1957-06-15	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1961-06-18	LAA @ ATH Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1953-07-26	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-19	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-21	CIN @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-22	CIN @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-22	CIN @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

1× All-Star

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