Dick Simpson
Los Angeles Angels 1962; Los Angeles Angels 1964; California Angels 1965; Cincinnati Reds 1966–1967; Houston Astros 1968; St. Louis Cardinals 1968; New York Yankees 1969; Seattle Pilots 1969
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .375 | .775 | 120.6 | 109.1 | .368 | 0.0 |
| 1964 | 21 | 58 | 50 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 2 | .140 | .259 | .280 | .539 | 59.4 | 55.8 | .258 | -0.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | 30 | 27 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | .222 | .267 | .259 | .526 | 51.7 | 54.4 | .246 | -0.1 |
| 1966 | 92 | 99 | 84 | 26 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 32 | 0 | 1 | .238 | .333 | .405 | .738 | 103.3 | 97.5 | .339 | 0.1 |
| 1967 | 44 | 62 | 54 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1 | .259 | .339 | .370 | .709 | 94.3 | 93.8 | .327 | 0.0 |
| 1968 | 85 | 267 | 233 | 36 | 46 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 28 | 82 | 4 | 5 | .197 | .292 | .322 | .614 | 85.9 | 85.9 | .290 | 0.1 |
| 1969 | 32 | 69 | 62 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 23 | 3 | 1 | .194 | .275 | .355 | .630 | 76.4 | 77.6 | .296 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-07-26 | SF @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1968-04-19 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1968-08-10 | PIT @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1964-05-17 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1967-06-18 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-05-26 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-27 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-19 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-20 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-21 | LAA @ ATH 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.