MLB / Players

Dizzy Dean

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 182 lb

BornJanuary 16, 1910 · Lucas, AR, USA

MLB debutSeptember 28, 1930

Final gameSeptember 28, 1947

Seasons12 (1930–1947)

St. Louis Cardinals 1930; St. Louis Cardinals 1932–1937; Chicago Cubs 1938–1941; St. Louis Browns 1947

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified pitchers

38.5

56.3

65.6

42.7

56.3

82.3

SHO

87.5

200

46.9

64.6

70.8

120

85.4

197.3

60.4

ERA

2.69

90.6

WHIP

1.181

86.5

K/9

5.47

81.3

FIP

2.86

FIP-

71.9

96.9

ERA+

147.9

83.3

sWAR

5.0

92.7

of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

130.5

96.4

sWAR

41.4

98.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1930	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	58.9	60.7	.302	0.5
1932	47	105	97	10	25	5	0	2	12	0	10	0	.258	.258	.371	.629	57.9	65.2	.276	5.4
1933	51	111	105	8	19	2	2	1	12	3	14	1	.181	.204	.267	.470	18.7	31.0	.217	4.5
1934	51	126	118	15	29	3	1	2	9	1	15	1	.246	.252	.339	.591	45.7	53.8	.264	8.9
1935	53	134	128	18	30	4	0	2	21	1	16	2	.234	.246	.313	.559	41.1	47.8	.252	7.4
1936	51	124	121	7	27	6	1	0	15	0	27	0	.223	.223	.289	.512	28.0	37.5	.232	6.0
1937	27	78	66	8	15	1	0	1	5	3	11	0	.227	.261	.288	.549	42.1	47.6	.256	5.0
1938	13	27	26	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	.192	.192	.231	.423	0.8	15.1	.193	2.4
1939	19	37	34	4	5	1	0	0	1	1	7	1	.147	.171	.176	.348	-20.9	-6.6	.165	1.5
1940	10	20	18	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	13.2	24.1	.205	-0.3
1941	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1947	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	507.6	446.9	.939	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1930	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	1	3	5	0	9.0	1.00	.667	5.00	3.44	68.2	504.4	0.5
1932	46	33	18	15	2	16	4	280	105	102	191	14	286.0	3.30	1.336	6.01	3.33	84.4	119.5	5.4
1933	48	34	20	18	4	26	3	279	99	64	199	11	293.0	3.04	1.171	6.11	2.40	69.5	113.8	4.5
1934	50	33	30	7	7	24	7	288	92	75	195	14	311.7	2.66	1.165	5.63	3.20	75.7	159.0	8.9
1935	50	36	28	12	5	29	3	324	110	77	190	16	325.3	3.04	1.233	5.26	3.24	79.2	134.4	7.4
1936	51	34	24	13	11	28	2	310	111	53	195	21	315.0	3.17	1.152	5.57	3.21	80.4	125.8	6.0
1937	27	25	13	10	1	17	4	200	59	33	120	9	197.3	2.69	1.181	5.47	2.86	71.9	147.9	5.0
1938	13	10	7	1	0	3	1	63	15	8	22	2	74.7	1.81	.951	2.65	2.86	74.4	212.4	2.4
1939	19	13	6	4	0	7	2	98	36	17	27	4	96.3	3.36	1.194	2.52	3.35	85.1	117.0	1.5
1940	10	9	3	3	0	3	0	68	31	20	18	4	54.0	5.17	1.630	3.00	4.16	110.1	73.0	-0.3
1941	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	1.0	18.00	3.000	9.00	0.57	16.0	19.6	-0.2
1947	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	4.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	3.17	82.6	—	0.3

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

325

766

717

161

RBI

104

.2245

OBP

.2352

SLG

.3013

OPS

.5365

Pitching

G (P)

317

230

150

263rd-most career W

154

217th-most career CG

SHO

163rd-most career SHO

1,967

468th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,163

420th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

453

ERA

3.024

183rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2057

178th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.32

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	HR	RBI	TB
1933-06-18	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	3	6
1937-08-22	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	3	6
1935-06-09	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	3	5
1933-07-30	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	2	5
1936-09-27	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	1	3	2	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1933-07-30	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	2	1	1	17
1933-05-20	SF @ STL Gameday	9.0	11	1	1	1	11
1937-05-05	STL @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	1	0	0	11
1934-07-08	CIN @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	10
1935-09-22	CIN @ STL Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	1	10

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

Hall of Fame, 1953 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player4× 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.