MLB / Players

Frank Dillon

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 17, 1873 · Normal, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1899

Final gameOctober 8, 1904

Seasons5 (1899–1904)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1899–1900; Detroit Tigers 1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902; Detroit Tigers 1902; Brooklyn Superbas 1904

Percentile snapshot

1904 season — qualified batters

135

28.4

561

29.5

511

40.9

38.6

132

34.1

29.5

RBI

11.4

53.4

19.3

.258

37.5

OBP

.313

38.6

SLG

.317

27.3

OPS

.630

29.5

wRC+

95.4

23.9

OPS+

95.0

21.6

wOBA

.308

31.8

sWAR

0.4

12.5

of 89 qualified 1904 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

sWAR

-1.5

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
1899	30	129	121	21	31	5	0	0	20	5	7	5	.256	.286	.298	.583	61.9	59.9	.281	-0.4
1900	5	18	18	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	.111	.111	.167	.278	-20.6	-23.9	.128	-0.3
1901	74	304	281	40	81	14	6	1	42	15	15	14	.288	.324	.391	.716	95.2	96.8	.334	0.3
1902	68	271	250	22	52	6	4	0	22	18	9	2	.208	.261	.264	.525	47.2	44.8	.253	-1.5
1904	135	561	511	60	132	18	6	0	31	40	32	13	.258	.313	.317	.630	95.4	95.0	.308	0.4

Career totals

312

1,283

1,181

146

298

RBI

116

.2523

OBP

.2992

SLG

.3192

OPS

.6184

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	RBI	TB
1901-04-25	BAL @ DET Gameday	6	3	4	4	0	5	8
1901-09-09	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	4	7
1902-06-11	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	4	6
1901-09-15	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	5
1901-05-12	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-25	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	DET @ CWS 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.