Dick Selma

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornNovember 4, 1943 · Santa Ana, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1965

Final gameAugust 9, 1974

Seasons10 (1965–1974)

New York Mets 1965–1968; Chicago Cubs 1969; San Diego Padres 1969; Philadelphia Phillies 1970–1973; California Angels 1974; Milwaukee Brewers 1974

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified pitchers

69.2

15.4

28.2

70.5

73.1

16.7

SHO

156

89.7

70.5

42.3

181

70.5

66.7

190.7

17.9

ERA

3.68

33.3

WHIP

1.243

52.6

K/9

8.54

93.6

FIP

3.17

64.1

FIP-

81.2

76.9

ERA+

106.5

sWAR

2.5

43.6

of 79 qualified 1969 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.0

84.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	7	9	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	18.4	26.8	.204	0.2
1966	31	19	14	1	1	0	1	1	2	7	0	.071	.222	.214	.437	25.7	22.8	.217	0.2
1967	43	23	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	10	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-66.9	-47.4	.085	1.3
1968	39	62	58	4	12	2	0	1	0	20	1	.207	.207	.241	.448	22.6	34.8	.209	2.4
1969	40	68	59	3	10	1	1	1	1	19	0	.169	.183	.220	.404	-7.2	8.5	.188	2.5
1970	73	22	20	1	3	1	0	2	1	8	0	.150	.190	.200	.390	-0.2	5.2	.186	3.3
1971	18	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	534.1	472.3	.932	0.3
1972	47	22	20	1	4	1	0	2	1	8	0	.200	.238	.250	.488	30.8	37.4	.232	-1.4
1973	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1974	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1965	4	4	2	1	0	1	1	22	11	9	26	2	26.7	3.71	1.163	8.78	2.79	79.6	94.2	0.2
1966	30	7	4	6	1	0	0	84	38	39	58	11	80.7	4.24	1.525	6.47	4.57	127.3	84.6	0.2
1967	38	4	2	4	2	0	0	71	25	36	52	3	81.3	2.77	1.316	5.75	3.26	97.6	120.8	1.3
1968	33	23	9	10	0	4	3	148	52	54	117	11	169.7	2.76	1.191	6.21	3.05	102.5	108.0	2.4
1969	40	28	12	10	1	5	2	156	78	81	181	16	190.7	3.68	1.243	8.54	3.17	81.2	106.5	2.5
1970	73	0	8	9	22	0	0	108	41	59	153	8	134.3	2.75	1.243	10.25	2.75	68.0	147.3	3.3
1971	17	0	0	2	1	0	0	21	9	8	15	2	24.7	3.28	1.176	5.47	3.60	104.5	104.8	0.3
1972	46	10	2	9	3	1	0	91	61	73	58	13	98.7	5.56	1.662	5.29	5.44	152.9	63.9	-1.4
1973	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	6	5	5	4	1	8.0	5.63	1.375	4.50	5.05	134.0	67.0	-0.1
1974	20	0	2	2	1	0	0	27	18	17	17	2	25.3	6.39	1.737	6.04	4.51	130.0	54.3	-0.6

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

324

226

203

RBI

.1724

OBP

.1952

SLG

.2167

OPS

.4119

Pitching

G (P)

307

SHO

840

SO (P)

681

BB allowed

381

ERA

3.621

WHIP

1.3274

K/9

7.30

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	RBI	TB
1968-05-12	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	0	3
1966-09-05	CIN @ NYM Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	3
1969-07-11	PHI @ CHC Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	3
1969-04-08	HOU @ SD Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2
1972-05-19	NYM @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-09-12	ATL @ NYM Gameday	10.0	4	0	0	1	13	0
1969-04-08	HOU @ SD Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	12	0
1969-05-13	SD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	4	10	0
1969-06-29	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	10	1
1969-08-03	SD @ CHC Gameday	8.0	4	3	3	4	10	1

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.