Dick Groat

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornNovember 4, 1930 · Wilkinsburg, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 18, 1952

Final gameOctober 1, 1967

Seasons14 (1952–1967)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1952; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955–1962; St. Louis Cardinals 1963–1965; Philadelphia Phillies 1966–1967; San Francisco Giants 1967

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified batters

155

70.2

640

64.9

584

70.2

21.3

152

55.3

39.4

43.6

4.3

RBI

25.5

37.2

92.6

20.2

.260

31.9

OBP

.311

26.6

SLG

.320

2.1

OPS

.631

4.3

wRC+

76.1

4.3

OPS+

77.1

3.2

wOBA

.289

5.3

sWAR

1.1

14.9

of 95 qualified 1966 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

89.9

22.9

OPS+

89.8

22.7

sWAR

27.4

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
1952	95	415	384	38	109	6	1	1	29	19	27	2	4	.284	.319	.313	.632	67.2	71.1	.295	0.2
1955	151	572	521	45	139	28	2	4	51	38	26	0	2	.267	.317	.351	.669	73.8	77.9	.297	0.8
1956	142	575	520	40	142	19	3	0	37	35	25	0	3	.273	.317	.321	.638	74.2	74.4	.291	0.8
1957	125	551	501	58	158	30	5	7	54	27	28	0	1	.315	.350	.437	.787	115.4	114.1	.350	3.5
1958	151	622	584	67	175	36	9	3	66	23	32	2	2	.300	.328	.408	.735	93.6	96.8	.324	2.4
1959	147	640	593	74	163	22	7	5	51	32	35	0	2	.275	.312	.361	.673	80.4	81.1	.304	1.3
1960	138	629	573	85	186	26	4	2	50	39	35	0	2	.325	.371	.394	.766	116.3	111.0	.352	4.1
1961	148	648	596	71	164	25	6	6	55	40	44	0	4	.275	.320	.367	.687	84.8	83.4	.312	1.7
1962	161	723	678	76	199	34	3	2	61	31	61	2	1	.294	.325	.361	.686	84.8	85.2	.313	1.9
1963	158	704	631	85	201	43	11	6	73	56	58	3	1	.319	.377	.450	.827	136.8	129.8	.376	6.5
1964	161	696	636	70	186	35	6	1	70	44	42	2	3	.292	.335	.371	.706	93.2	92.4	.322	2.7
1965	153	655	587	55	149	26	5	0	52	56	50	1	1	.254	.316	.315	.632	76.4	75.0	.295	1.1
1966	155	640	584	58	152	21	4	2	53	40	38	2	1	.260	.311	.320	.631	76.1	77.1	.289	1.1
1967	44	109	96	7	15	1	1	0	5	10	11	0	0	.156	.236	.188	.423	21.7	23.6	.209	-0.5

Career totals

1,929

309th-most career G

8,179

264th-most career PA

7,484

220th-most career AB

829

2,138

217th-most career H

352

313th-most career 2B

437th-most career 3B

RBI

707

490

512

.2857

OBP

.3300

SLG

.3662

OPS

.6962

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
1960-05-13	PIT @ ATL Gameday	6	2	6	3	0	0	0	0	9
1957-07-07	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	5	0	8
1959-04-26	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	5	0	7
1960-08-13	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	0	1	7
1962-09-01	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-04-17	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-04-22	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-05-01	SF @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-05-03	SF @ PIT 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× Most Valuable Player5× 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.