MLB / Players

Dick McAuliffe

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 176 lb

BornNovember 29, 1939 · Hartford, CT, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1960

Final gameSeptember 1, 1975

Seasons16 (1960–1975)

Detroit Tigers 1960–1973; Boston Red Sox 1974–1975

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified batters

128

6.3

537

477

0.9

11.6

72.3

62.5

RBI

40.2

51.8

43.8

34.8

76.8

.208

OBP

.293

7.1

SLG

.379

31.3

OPS

.672

19.6

wRC+

87.2

18.8

OPS+

88.4

19.6

wOBA

.311

21.4

sWAR

1.3

21.4

of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.6

66.7

OPS+

110.0

sWAR

41.4

98.1

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
1960	8	29	27	2	7	0	1	0	1	2	6	0	0	.259	.310	.333	.644	72.8	73.1	.300	0.0
1961	80	315	285	36	73	12	4	6	33	24	39	2	3	.256	.322	.389	.711	89.1	88.7	.324	0.9
1962	139	539	471	50	124	20	5	12	63	64	76	4	2	.263	.349	.403	.752	102.2	100.3	.342	2.2
1963	150	644	568	77	149	18	6	13	61	64	75	11	5	.262	.334	.384	.718	101.4	98.6	.328	3.0
1964	162	645	557	85	134	18	7	24	66	77	96	8	5	.241	.334	.427	.762	110.3	109.5	.340	3.8
1965	113	456	404	61	105	13	6	15	54	49	62	6	9	.260	.342	.433	.775	121.0	118.4	.351	3.4
1966	124	506	430	83	118	16	8	23	56	66	80	5	7	.274	.373	.509	.882	154.7	149.1	.393	5.7
1967	153	675	557	92	133	16	7	22	65	105	118	6	5	.239	.364	.411	.775	134.8	127.3	.362	5.7
1968	151	658	570	95	142	24	10	16	56	82	99	8	7	.249	.344	.411	.755	131.5	126.8	.350	5.0
1969	74	321	271	49	71	10	5	11	33	47	41	2	5	.262	.369	.458	.826	132.5	127.5	.382	2.5
1970	146	639	530	73	124	21	1	12	50	101	62	5	6	.234	.358	.345	.704	101.0	95.3	.334	2.6
1971	128	537	477	67	99	16	6	18	57	53	67	4	1	.208	.293	.379	.672	87.2	88.4	.311	1.3
1972	122	470	408	47	98	16	3	8	30	59	59	0	0	.240	.339	.353	.692	109.0	105.4	.329	2.4
1973	106	395	343	39	94	18	1	12	47	49	52	0	4	.274	.366	.437	.804	123.3	120.9	.369	2.6
1974	100	316	272	32	57	13	1	5	24	39	40	2	0	.210	.310	.320	.630	76.5	77.4	.297	0.4
1975	7	17	15	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.133	.188	.133	.321	-19.5	-10.7	.163	-0.2

Career totals

1,763

447th-most career G

7,162

423rd-most career PA

6,185

465th-most career AB

888

499th-most career R

1,530

231

382nd-most career 3B

197

396th-most career HR

RBI

697

882

193rd-most career BB

974

418th-most career SO

.2474

OBP

.3429

SLG

.4032

OPS

.7461

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
1968-07-31	TEX @ DET Gameday	4	4	4	2	1	1	0	9
1965-06-19	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	5	0	9
1964-07-10	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1966-06-19	DET @ NYY Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	2	1	9
1967-05-21	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	2	0	9

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

3× 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.