Emerson Dickman
Boston Red Sox 1936; Boston Red Sox 1938–1941
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 32 | 42 | 35 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .429 | .804 | 98.6 | 97.8 | .372 | 1.1 |
| 1939 | 48 | 38 | 36 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .105 | .056 | .161 | -65.8 | -58.2 | .088 | 1.1 |
| 1940 | 35 | 32 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .107 | .167 | .107 | .274 | -35.8 | -28.3 | .141 | -0.8 |
| 1941 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .182 | .273 | -49.4 | -29.4 | .119 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.0 | 9.00 | 3.000 | 18.00 | 2.49 | 47.8 | 57.9 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 117 | 61 | 54 | 22 | 9 | 104.0 | 5.28 | 1.644 | 1.90 | 5.49 | 111.1 | 93.6 | 1.1 |
| 1939 | 48 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 56 | 43 | 46 | 10 | 113.7 | 4.43 | 1.487 | 3.64 | 4.68 | 99.1 | 106.7 | 1.1 |
| 1940 | 35 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 121 | 67 | 38 | 40 | 15 | 100.0 | 6.03 | 1.590 | 3.60 | 5.33 | 118.5 | 74.6 | -0.8 |
| 1941 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 22 | 17 | 16 | 4 | 31.0 | 6.39 | 1.742 | 4.65 | 5.05 | 121.9 | 64.9 | -0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-07-02 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-07-13 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1938-10-02 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1941-05-14 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1938-08-06 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-04-19 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1939-07-04 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| 1940-05-06 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5.0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 1938-07-25 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1940-04-26 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 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.