MLB / Players

Dick Porter

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 30, 1901 · Princess Anne, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1929

Final gameSeptember 30, 1934

Seasons6 (1929–1934)

Cleveland Indians 1929–1933; Boston Red Sox 1934; Cleveland Indians 1934

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

132

563

59.7

499

56.4

68.5

133

42.3

59.1

RBI

40.3

73.8

22.1

18.1

.267

30.2

OBP

.335

41.6

SLG

.329

16.8

OPS

.663

21.5

wRC+

75.4

11.4

OPS+

74.1

12.1

wOBA

.316

26.8

sWAR

-0.5

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 468 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.0

82.9

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
1929	71	214	192	26	63	16	5	1	24	17	14	3	5	.328	.386	.479	.865	117.2	117.3	.393	1.1
1930	119	552	480	100	168	43	8	4	57	55	31	3	3	.350	.420	.498	.918	128.3	127.6	.414	3.3
1931	114	478	414	82	129	24	3	1	38	56	36	6	9	.312	.395	.391	.786	105.3	101.7	.372	1.3
1932	146	700	621	106	191	42	8	4	60	64	43	2	4	.308	.373	.420	.793	101.5	100.9	.366	1.7
1933	132	563	499	73	133	19	6	0	41	51	42	4	4	.267	.335	.329	.663	75.4	74.1	.316	-0.5
1934	93	337	309	39	90	15	7	1	62	25	20	5	2	.291	.346	.395	.741	86.6	87.8	.345	0.2

Career totals

675

2,844

2,515

426

774

159

RBI

282

268

186

.3078

OBP

.3760

SLG

.4135

OPS

.7895

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
1934-06-18	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	0	3	1	6
1932-06-22	MIN @ CLE Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	6
1929-09-24	CWS @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1932-07-11	CLE @ ATH Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1930-06-14	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	4	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-04-16	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-17	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-18	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-19	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-22	CWS @ CLE 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.