MLB / Players

Dick Hoblitzell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 172 lb

BornOctober 26, 1888 · Waverly, WV, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1908

Final gameJune 7, 1918

Seasons11 (1908–1918)

Cincinnati Reds 1908–1913; Boston Red Sox 1914; Cincinnati Reds 1914; Boston Red Sox 1915–1918

Percentile snapshot

1917 season — qualified batters

120

35.8

492

34.2

420

34.2

108

38.3

58.3

54.2

42.5

RBI

61.7

66.7

.257

OBP

.336

54.2

SLG

.343

46.7

OPS

.679

50.8

wRC+

111.0

OPS+

110.2

58.3

wOBA

.338

54.2

sWAR

1.1

37.5

of 121 qualified 1917 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.5

62.5

OPS+

111.9

66.2

sWAR

12.8

89.5

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
1908	32	126	114	8	29	3	2	0	8	7	18	2	0	.254	.309	.316	.625	101.0	101.5	.307	0.1
1909	142	592	517	59	159	23	11	4	67	44	47	17	0	.308	.364	.418	.782	140.9	142.5	.379	3.4
1910	155	678	611	85	170	24	13	4	70	47	32	28	0	.278	.332	.380	.712	107.6	110.8	.344	1.6
1911	158	694	622	81	180	19	13	11	91	42	44	32	0	.289	.342	.415	.757	112.1	116.0	.358	2.0
1912	148	634	558	73	164	32	12	2	85	48	28	23	0	.294	.352	.405	.757	109.0	110.7	.359	1.5
1913	137	558	502	59	143	23	7	3	62	35	26	18	0	.285	.334	.376	.710	101.3	102.5	.336	0.7
1914	147	556	477	62	125	18	10	0	59	45	47	19	12	.262	.335	.342	.676	101.6	101.6	.333	0.6
1915	124	469	399	54	113	15	12	2	61	38	26	9	14	.283	.351	.396	.747	126.0	129.3	.366	1.9
1916	130	488	417	57	108	17	1	0	39	47	28	10	0	.259	.338	.305	.643	98.4	96.2	.324	0.3
1917	120	492	420	49	108	19	7	1	47	46	22	12	0	.257	.336	.343	.679	111.0	110.2	.338	1.1
1918	25	83	69	4	11	1	0	0	4	8	3	3	0	.159	.266	.174	.440	39.0	35.2	.240	-0.5

Career totals

1,318

5,370

4,706

591

1,310

194

229th-most career 3B

RBI

593

407

321

173

466th-most career SB

.2784

OBP

.3407

SLG

.3742

OPS

.7149

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
1909-08-23	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	1	3	10
1913-08-16	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	0	3	7
1916-07-15	BAL @ BOS Gameday	6	4	4	1	1	0	2	7
1912-07-30	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	0	2	7
1915-06-08	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-08-22	SF @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-08-23	PHI @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-08-24	PHI @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-08-25	PHI @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-08-27	ATL @ CIN 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.