MLB / Players

Dick Sisler

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornNovember 2, 1920 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1946

Final gameAugust 1, 1953

Seasons8 (1946–1953)

St. Louis Cardinals 1946–1947; Philadelphia Phillies 1948–1951; Cincinnati Reds 1952; St. Louis Cardinals 1952–1953

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

130

18.7

480

445

10.7

5.3

114

6.7

9.3

50.7

RBI

6.7

65.3

.256

25.3

OBP

.309

6.7

SLG

.404

OPS

.713

29.3

wRC+

93.6

18.7

OPS+

96.7

wOBA

.325

14.7

sWAR

0.2

2.7

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.5

78.1

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
1946	83	260	235	17	61	11	2	3	42	14	28	0	0	.260	.307	.362	.668	82.8	87.7	.316	-0.2
1947	46	77	74	4	15	2	1	0	9	3	8	0	0	.203	.234	.257	.491	18.8	28.8	.229	-0.6
1948	121	502	446	60	122	21	3	11	56	47	46	1	0	.274	.344	.408	.752	104.1	104.5	.347	0.9
1949	121	446	412	42	119	19	6	7	50	25	38	0	0	.289	.333	.415	.748	97.4	99.8	.339	0.5
1950	141	593	523	79	155	29	4	13	83	64	50	1	0	.296	.373	.442	.815	117.5	116.3	.369	2.5
1951	125	478	428	46	123	20	5	8	52	40	39	1	0	.287	.351	.414	.765	108.1	108.1	.349	1.5
1952	130	480	445	51	114	15	6	13	64	32	40	3	3	.256	.309	.404	.713	93.6	96.7	.325	0.2
1953	32	44	43	3	11	1	1	0	4	1	4	0	0	.256	.273	.326	.598	48.3	55.0	.267	-0.2

Career totals

799

2,880

2,606

302

720

118

RBI

360

226

253

.2763

OBP

.3361

SLG

.4064

OPS

.7425

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1948-04-23	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1948-06-07	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1950-05-04	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	1	5	0	1	5	0	8
1946-05-28	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	4	0	8
1950-05-30	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-17	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-18	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-20	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-21	STL @ CHC 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.

Honors

1× 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.