MLB / Players

Dots Miller

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 9, 1886 · Kearny, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1909

Final gameSeptember 27, 1921

Seasons12 (1909–1921)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1909–1913; St. Louis Cardinals 1914–1917; St. Louis Cardinals 1919; Philadelphia Phillies 1920–1921

Percentile snapshot

1917 season — qualified batters

148

71.7

598

65.8

544

73.3

64.2

135

61.7

43.3

71.7

57.5

RBI

57.5

49.2

17.5

56.7

.248

33.3

OBP

.295

SLG

.320

31.7

OPS

.615

wRC+

87.2

23.3

OPS+

89.2

wOBA

.295

19.2

sWAR

0.9

31.7

of 121 qualified 1917 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.9

29.8

OPS+

96.3

34.4

sWAR

12.0

88.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	151	631	560	71	156	31	13	3	87	39	49	14	0	.279	.329	.396	.725	121.5	124.9	.351	4.0
1910	120	504	444	45	101	13	10	1	48	33	41	11	0	.227	.284	.309	.592	67.3	71.0	.290	-0.1
1911	137	556	470	82	126	17	8	6	78	51	48	17	0	.268	.348	.377	.725	102.5	102.5	.350	2.2
1912	148	628	567	74	156	33	12	4	87	37	45	18	0	.275	.324	.397	.721	96.8	99.9	.339	0.6
1913	154	643	580	75	158	24	20	7	90	37	52	20	0	.272	.317	.419	.736	110.6	114.6	.343	1.6
1914	155	634	573	67	166	27	10	4	88	34	52	16	0	.290	.339	.393	.732	116.3	118.2	.350	2.9
1915	150	626	553	73	146	17	10	2	72	43	48	27	19	.264	.324	.342	.666	100.9	100.8	.321	1.4
1916	143	560	505	47	120	22	7	1	46	40	49	18	0	.238	.300	.315	.615	86.7	87.2	.297	0.3
1917	148	598	544	61	135	15	9	2	45	33	52	14	0	.248	.295	.320	.615	87.2	89.2	.295	0.9
1919	101	378	346	38	80	10	4	1	24	13	23	6	0	.231	.265	.292	.557	64.8	69.6	.266	-0.9
1920	98	375	343	41	87	12	2	1	27	16	17	13	6	.254	.289	.309	.598	60.3	65.6	.284	-0.4
1921	84	343	320	37	95	11	3	0	23	15	27	3	5	.297	.330	.350	.680	69.3	72.0	.316	-0.4

Career totals

1,589

6,476

5,805

711

1,526

232

108

135th-most career 3B

RBI

715

391

503

177

448th-most career SB

.2629

OBP

.3144

SLG

.3566

OPS

.6710

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	TB
1912-04-27	CIN @ PIT Gameday	6	1	5	1	1	0	5	8
1911-05-09	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1909-07-14	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	7
1913-07-06	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	1	7
1913-06-27	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1909-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-18	PIT @ 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.