MLB / Players

Dick Fowler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 215 lb

BornMarch 30, 1921 · Toronto, ON, CAN

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1941

Final gameSeptember 1, 1952

Seasons10 (1941–1952)

Philadelphia Athletics 1941–1942; Philadelphia Athletics 1945–1952

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified pitchers

11.5

42.6

55.7

45.9

42.6

65.6

SHO

78.7

210

45.9

50.8

115

1.6

60.7

213.7

54.1

ERA

3.75

50.8

WHIP

1.521

K/9

1.81

FIP

4.52

6.6

FIP-

110.2

9.8

ERA+

109.5

50.8

sWAR

3.2

55.7

of 62 qualified 1949 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.9

21.8

sWAR

9.9

86.8

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	4	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.8	-100.0	.000	0.3
1942	32	52	50	1	8	0	0	0	2	0	10	0	.160	.176	.160	.336	-20.9	-5.9	.163	-0.8
1945	11	18	18	3	8	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	.444	.444	.667	1.111	227.5	220.7	.513	0.1
1946	32	73	71	1	13	1	0	0	3	0	9	0	.183	.183	.197	.380	-14.9	6.2	.176	2.5
1947	36	86	82	3	14	1	0	0	2	0	17	0	.171	.171	.183	.354	-24.2	-2.5	.165	4.5
1948	29	89	82	5	14	1	0	1	8	3	10	0	.171	.200	.220	.420	-0.7	11.7	.200	2.9
1949	31	86	77	5	18	2	0	0	11	7	10	1	.234	.298	.260	.557	46.9	49.8	.276	3.2
1950	11	26	26	2	5	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	.192	.192	.192	.385	-14.8	-0.8	.179	-0.8
1951	22	47	42	2	8	3	0	0	2	4	6	0	.190	.261	.262	.523	35.5	40.1	.253	-0.7
1952	18	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	.000	.063	.000	.063	-109.8	-82.2	.047	-1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1941	4	3	1	2	0	1	0	26	9	8	8	4	24.0	3.38	1.417	3.00	5.26	126.4	123.3	0.3
1942	31	17	6	11	1	4	0	159	77	45	38	13	140.0	4.95	1.457	2.44	4.18	112.1	75.3	-0.8
1945	7	3	1	2	0	2	1	41	20	18	21	1	37.3	4.82	1.580	5.06	3.11	92.4	69.8	0.1
1946	32	28	9	16	0	14	1	213	75	75	89	16	205.7	3.28	1.400	3.89	3.72	106.1	106.7	2.5
1947	36	31	12	11	0	16	3	210	71	85	75	12	227.3	2.81	1.298	2.97	3.61	95.8	134.2	4.5
1948	29	26	15	8	2	16	2	221	86	76	50	15	204.7	3.78	1.451	2.20	4.38	102.5	113.1	2.9
1949	31	28	15	11	1	15	4	210	89	115	43	13	213.7	3.75	1.521	1.81	4.52	110.2	109.5	3.2
1950	11	9	1	5	0	2	0	75	48	56	15	7	66.7	6.48	1.965	2.03	6.28	138.7	69.9	-0.8
1951	22	22	5	11	0	4	0	141	78	72	29	11	125.0	5.62	1.704	2.09	5.01	118.9	75.0	-0.7
1952	18	3	1	2	0	1	0	71	42	28	14	4	58.7	6.44	1.688	2.15	4.41	112.8	60.7	-1.4

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

226

502

472

RBI

.1864

OBP

.2131

SLG

.2182

OPS

.4313

Pitching

G (P)

221

170

SHO

1,303

SO (P)

382

BB allowed

578

ERA

4.110

WHIP

1.4927

K/9

2.64

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	BB	TB
1945-09-05	CWS @ ATH Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	1	0	4
1948-08-08	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1947-06-04	ATH @ CWS Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	0	3
1949-06-04	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	3
1951-07-18	ATH @ DET Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-07-05	BOS @ ATH Gameday	8.0	6	5	1	3	9	0
1946-07-12	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	2	8	0
1947-08-01	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	11	4	4	1	8	0
1946-05-19	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	1	7	2
1942-06-05	BAL @ ATH Gameday	16.0	9	1	1	5	6	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.