MLB / Players

Dick Padden

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 17, 1870 · Wheeling, WV, USA

MLB debutJuly 15, 1896

Final gameMay 4, 1905

Seasons9 (1896–1905)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1896–1898; Washington Senators 1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1901; St. Louis Browns 1902–1905

Percentile snapshot

1904 season — qualified batters

132

21.6

520

13.6

453

5.7

108

51.1

13.6

RBI

18.2

53.4

70.5

63.6

.238

14.8

OBP

.325

53.4

SLG

.298

12.5

OPS

.623

23.9

wRC+

107.1

43.2

OPS+

102.2

36.4

wOBA

.307

29.5

sWAR

2.5

46.6

of 89 qualified 1904 batters (min 483 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.2

23.4

OPS+

88.1

20.1

sWAR

9.4

86.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1896	61	239	219	33	53	4	8	2	24	14	9	8	.242	.294	.361	.654	73.5	71.9	.309	0.0
1897	134	591	517	84	146	16	10	2	58	38	24	18	.282	.350	.364	.714	90.9	88.4	.344	1.4
1898	128	522	463	61	119	7	6	2	43	35	17	11	.257	.335	.311	.646	88.9	84.9	.323	1.2
1899	134	500	451	66	125	20	7	2	61	24	13	27	.277	.337	.366	.703	93.0	92.6	.340	1.7
1901	123	541	489	71	125	17	7	2	62	31	36	26	.256	.315	.331	.646	90.1	88.8	.312	1.4
1902	117	461	413	54	109	26	3	1	40	30	20	11	.264	.327	.349	.676	91.5	89.7	.322	1.2
1903	29	109	94	7	19	3	0	0	6	9	3	5	.202	.306	.234	.540	75.3	65.7	.271	0.1
1904	132	520	453	42	108	19	4	0	36	40	40	23	.238	.325	.298	.623	107.1	102.2	.307	2.5
1905	16	62	58	5	10	1	1	0	4	3	2	3	.172	.213	.224	.437	40.9	41.7	.215	-0.2

Career totals

874

3,545

3,157

423

814

113

RBI

334

224

164

132

.2578

OBP

.3263

SLG

.3332

OPS

.6595

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
1901-08-31	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	0	2	7
1901-08-05	STL @ PIT Gameday	7	3	4	1	1	0	0	7
1905-04-24	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	0	0	7
1902-06-07	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	0	3	3	0	0	3	6
1901-08-12	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	PIT @ STL 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.