Dick Coffman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornDecember 18, 1906 · Veto, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 28, 1927

Final gameJune 28, 1945

Seasons15 (1927–1945)

Washington Senators 1927; St. Louis Browns 1928–1932; Washington Senators 1932; St. Louis Browns 1933–1935; New York Giants 1936–1939; Boston Bees 1940; Philadelphia Phillies 1945

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

73.5

44.1

42.2

41.2

78.4

28.4

SHO

37.3

212

43.1

42.2

43.1

39.2

173.0

45.1

ERA

4.53

31.4

WHIP

1.566

22.5

K/9

2.86

23.5

FIP

4.39

37.3

FIP-

90.4

76.5

ERA+

107.2

54.9

sWAR

2.3

55.9

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

94.5

16.6

sWAR

8.4

84.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1927	5	5	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	.333	.500	.333	.833	139.6	121.1	.424	0.3
1928	29	26	23	0	1	0	0	1	1	7	.043	.083	.043	.127	-79.8	-66.4	.070	-1.2
1929	27	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.1	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1930	38	70	66	4	9	3	0	2	2	18	.136	.162	.182	.344	-19.9	-14.5	.159	0.8
1931	32	59	51	4	4	1	0	0	2	20	.078	.113	.098	.211	-53.7	-45.1	.106	2.4
1932	31	48	44	2	3	1	1	1	4	13	.068	.146	.136	.282	-28.8	-27.4	.144	1.7
1933	21	29	27	0	1	1	0	3	2	14	.037	.103	.074	.178	-61.3	-53.6	.097	-0.6
1934	40	57	51	3	11	1	0	5	1	23	.216	.231	.235	.466	6.0	15.9	.219	2.3
1935	41	51	41	4	6	2	0	2	6	13	.146	.255	.195	.450	15.0	14.7	.231	-0.8
1936	42	22	20	1	4	0	0	0	1	7	.200	.238	.200	.438	17.3	20.7	.212	1.0
1937	42	19	19	1	7	2	0	2	0	8	.368	.368	.474	.842	126.1	128.0	.381	1.8
1938	51	28	28	0	2	0	0	0	0	15	.071	.071	.071	.143	-82.7	-60.5	.066	1.2
1939	28	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.1	-100.0	.000	0.7
1940	31	13	12	0	1	0	0	0	1	7	.083	.154	.083	.237	-36.6	-31.7	.128	-0.5
1945	14	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	99.4	83.5	.341	-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
1927	5	2	0	1	0	0	0	20	6	2	5	0	16.0	3.38	1.375	2.81	3.19	78.2	120.7	0.3
1928	29	7	4	5	1	3	0	122	58	37	25	7	85.7	6.09	1.856	2.63	4.84	116.1	68.4	-1.2
1929	27	3	1	1	1	1	1	61	35	14	11	3	52.7	5.98	1.424	1.88	4.31	98.5	73.1	-0.5
1930	38	30	8	18	1	12	1	250	112	69	54	14	196.0	5.14	1.628	2.48	4.96	103.3	93.3	0.8
1931	32	17	9	13	1	11	2	159	73	51	39	10	169.3	3.88	1.240	2.07	4.50	98.7	117.4	2.4
1932	31	15	6	9	0	5	1	158	62	52	31	5	137.3	4.06	1.529	2.03	4.35	96.8	110.7	1.7
1933	21	13	3	7	1	3	1	114	53	39	19	9	81.0	5.89	1.889	2.11	5.52	122.1	76.8	-0.6
1934	40	21	9	10	3	6	1	212	87	59	55	11	173.0	4.53	1.566	2.86	4.39	90.4	107.2	2.3
1935	41	18	5	11	2	5	0	206	98	46	34	14	143.7	6.14	1.754	2.13	4.89	104.0	76.5	-0.8
1936	42	2	7	5	7	0	0	119	44	23	26	7	101.7	3.90	1.397	2.30	4.16	106.6	100.3	1.0
1937	42	1	8	3	3	0	0	93	27	31	30	4	80.0	3.04	1.550	3.38	4.16	107.2	127.8	1.8
1938	51	3	8	4	12	1	1	116	43	21	21	3	111.3	3.48	1.231	1.70	3.36	88.8	108.7	1.2
1939	28	0	1	2	3	0	0	50	13	6	9	1	38.0	3.08	1.474	2.13	3.39	86.2	127.7	0.7
1940	31	0	1	5	3	0	0	63	29	11	11	4	48.3	5.40	1.531	2.05	4.18	112.7	68.6	-0.5
1945	14	0	2	1	0	0	0	39	15	2	2	0	26.3	5.13	1.557	0.68	2.71	71.8	73.7	-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

472

443

400

RBI

151

.1275

OBP

.1730

SLG

.1600

OPS

.3330

Pitching

G (P)

472

132

460th-most career SV

SHO

1,460

SO (P)

372

BB allowed

463

ERA

4.653

WHIP

1.5373

K/9

2.29

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	RBI	BB	TB
1934-08-29	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	2	0	3
1930-06-27	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	1	3
1932-09-17	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	3
1934-05-05	BAL @ BOS Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	2	0	2
1937-08-20	SF @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-06-16	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	11	5	5	1	5	1
1932-09-21	MIN @ BOS Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	3	5	0
1934-08-29	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	6	4	2	6	5	0
1935-06-04	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	10	1	1	1	5	0
1936-05-22	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	12	10	10	0	5	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.