Dick Cole
Pittsburgh Pirates 1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951; Pittsburgh Pirates 1953–1956; Milwaukee Braves 1957
Percentile snapshot
1954 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 57 | 170 | 142 | 13 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 21 | 14 | 0 | 1 | .225 | .325 | .282 | .607 | 63.5 | 61.3 | .294 | -0.1 |
| 1953 | 97 | 280 | 235 | 29 | 64 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 38 | 26 | 2 | 2 | .272 | .374 | .336 | .710 | 89.9 | 84.7 | .334 | 0.9 |
| 1954 | 138 | 541 | 486 | 40 | 131 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 40 | 41 | 48 | 0 | 0 | .270 | .323 | .342 | .664 | 70.7 | 73.1 | .304 | 0.3 |
| 1955 | 77 | 260 | 239 | 16 | 54 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .285 | .285 | .569 | 51.6 | 52.3 | .264 | -0.6 |
| 1956 | 72 | 110 | 99 | 7 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .291 | .253 | .543 | 52.9 | 49.8 | .260 | -0.2 |
| 1957 | 15 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .235 | .071 | .307 | -18.1 | -8.2 | .149 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-08-31 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1955-06-05 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1951-09-19 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1954-05-24 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1954-05-02 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-04-20 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-04-22 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-04-25 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-05-16 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951-05-21 | SF @ 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.