Dick Marlowe
Detroit Tigers 1951–1955; Chicago White Sox 1956; Detroit Tigers 1956
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 1952 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -138.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1953 | 42 | 33 | 32 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .219 | .219 | .438 | 2.7 | 17.8 | .203 | -0.5 |
| 1954 | 38 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .211 | .222 | .433 | 6.6 | 19.3 | .207 | 0.4 |
| 1955 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -26.2 | -41.5 | .152 | 0.5 |
| 1956 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.7 | 32.40 | 4.200 | 5.40 | 4.98 | 120.4 | 12.8 | -0.5 |
| 1952 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11.0 | 7.36 | 2.182 | 2.45 | 3.82 | 101.3 | 51.2 | -0.4 |
| 1953 | 42 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 152 | 70 | 42 | 52 | 13 | 119.7 | 5.26 | 1.621 | 3.91 | 4.21 | 104.3 | 76.7 | -0.5 |
| 1954 | 38 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 11 | 84.0 | 4.18 | 1.381 | 4.18 | 4.58 | 123.5 | 88.8 | 0.4 |
| 1955 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 15.0 | 1.80 | 1.067 | 5.40 | 2.90 | 74.7 | 215.3 | 0.5 |
| 1956 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 12.0 | 6.00 | 2.000 | 3.00 | 6.51 | 157.8 | 68.7 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-06-05 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1953-07-09 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953-07-23 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953-05-05 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1953-06-06 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-07-09 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1955-09-21 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1953-07-04 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1953-08-02 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 7.1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1953-06-06 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 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.