MLB / Players

Dick Littlefield

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb
BornMarch 18, 1926 · Detroit, MI, USA
MLB debutJuly 7, 1950
Final gameMay 30, 1958
Seasons9 (1950–1958)

Boston Red Sox 1950; Chicago White Sox 1951; Detroit Tigers 1952; St. Louis Browns 1952–1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954; Pittsburgh Pirates 1954–1955; New York Giants 1956; Pittsburgh Pirates 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Chicago Cubs 1957; Milwaukee Braves 1958

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified pitchers

G
26
1.8
GS
21
17.9
W
10
25
L
11
48.2
SV
0
0
CG
7
14.3
SHO
1
16.1
H
148
96.4
ER
69
82.1
BB
91
25
SO
97
53.6
HR
10
82.1
IP
161.0
7.1
ERA
3.86
35.7
WHIP
1.484
14.3
K/9
5.42
87.5
FIP
3.77
39.3
FIP-
92.0
62.5
ERA+
106.3
44.6
sWAR
2.0
33.9

of 57 qualified 1954 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
0.8
61.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
195015440000000300.000.000.000.000-135.2-100.0.000-0.9
19514310000002000.000.667.000.667205.894.3.506-0.3
19523523232200010800.087.087.087.174-83.7-52.3.0811.0
195338494248000221700.190.227.190.4182.913.2.203-0.4
195426565048210221300.160.192.240.432-3.011.8.1962.0
195535393416100341500.176.263.206.46929.727.2.231-0.3
195640302802000211200.071.103.071.175-67.1-51.4.0880.1
19574812110200001300.182.250.182.43217.518.9.212-0.5
195840000000000000.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19501522210027242413623.39.262.1865.018.16164.653.5-0.9
195142110009917719.78.382.6906.527.75194.147.6-0.3
19523562613081374266894.03.541.3096.323.4189.7107.41.0
19533622712020153868410417152.35.081.5566.144.39108.779.4-0.4
19542621101107114869919710161.03.861.4845.423.7792.0106.32.0
1955351751204114874687015130.05.121.6624.854.35107.778.8-0.3
195640114620010158498020119.34.371.2576.034.30114.885.60.1
195748223400763937511265.75.351.7216.995.07130.472.8-0.5
19584001100731726.34.261.2639.955.35148.384.60.0

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

G
245
PA
216
AB
193
R
11
H
28
2B
3
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
10
BB
12
SO
71
SB
0
BA
.1451
OBP
.1951
SLG
.1710
OPS
.3661

Pitching

G (P)
243
GS
83
W
33
L
54
SV
9
CG
16
SHO
2
IP
762
SO (P)
495
BB allowed
413
ERA
4.715
WHIP
1.5269
K/9
5.85

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1954-08-15PIT @ PHI Gameday413200005
1954-07-03SF @ PIT Gameday311010003
1955-05-03ATL @ PIT Gameday302000112
1955-05-22SF @ PIT Gameday202000112
1955-04-28CIN @ PIT Gameday201100102

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1953-07-12BAL @ DET Gameday9.05221100
1954-07-11PIT @ SF Gameday9.0910690
1957-09-03ATL @ CHC Gameday8.01185681
1953-07-07CLE @ BAL Gameday7.0433481
1952-09-28BAL @ CWS Gameday6.0410080

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.