George Sisler

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornMarch 24, 1893 · Manchester, OH, USA

MLB debutJune 28, 1915

Final gameSeptember 22, 1930

Seasons15 (1915–1930)

St. Louis Browns 1915–1922; St. Louis Browns 1924–1927; Boston Braves 1928; Washington Senators 1928; Boston Braves 1929–1930

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

154

94.5

686

90.9

629

97.6

47.6

205

92.7

86.6

64.6

19.5

RBI

70.7

37.8

48.8

33.5

34.8

.326

68.3

OBP

.363

SLG

.424

42.1

OPS

.788

42.1

wRC+

96.2

37.2

OPS+

96.8

39.6

wOBA

.358

sWAR

0.7

30.5

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.9

81.6

OPS+

125.0

85.7

sWAR

41.0

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
1915	81	295	274	28	78	10	2	3	29	7	27	10	9	.285	.307	.369	.676	98.3	105.4	.326	1.2
1916	151	644	580	83	177	21	11	4	76	40	37	34	26	.305	.355	.400	.755	128.6	130.4	.367	3.8
1917	135	587	539	60	190	30	9	2	52	30	19	37	0	.353	.390	.453	.843	157.6	159.2	.406	4.8
1918	114	506	452	69	154	21	9	2	41	40	17	45	0	.341	.400	.440	.841	157.3	155.4	.411	4.0
1919	132	561	511	96	180	31	15	10	83	27	20	28	0	.352	.390	.530	.921	152.6	152.5	.426	4.3
1920	154	692	631	137	257	49	18	19	122	46	19	42	17	.407	.449	.632	1.082	178.8	179.7	.489	8.0
1921	138	635	582	125	216	38	18	12	104	34	27	35	11	.371	.411	.560	.971	138.9	139.8	.438	4.1
1922	142	654	586	134	246	42	18	8	105	49	14	51	19	.420	.467	.594	1.061	174.3	171.4	.481	7.1
1924	151	684	636	94	194	27	10	9	74	31	29	19	17	.305	.340	.421	.762	91.0	94.8	.354	0.3
1925	150	688	649	100	224	21	15	12	105	27	24	11	12	.345	.371	.479	.851	105.5	108.5	.389	1.7
1926	150	662	613	78	178	21	12	7	71	30	30	12	8	.290	.327	.398	.725	78.2	82.8	.336	-0.8
1927	149	661	614	87	201	32	8	5	97	24	15	27	7	.327	.357	.430	.787	96.5	98.9	.363	0.7
1928	138	588	540	72	179	27	4	4	70	31	17	11	1	.331	.370	.419	.789	108.0	108.4	.364	1.5
1929	154	686	629	67	205	40	8	2	79	33	17	6	0	.326	.363	.424	.788	96.2	96.8	.358	0.7
1930	116	470	431	54	133	15	7	3	67	23	15	7	0	.309	.346	.397	.743	82.0	81.9	.334	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1915	15	8	4	4	0	6	0	62	22	38	41	70.0	2.83	1.429	5.27	3.00	105.7	100.5	1.2
1916	3	3	1	2	0	3	1	18	3	6	12	27.0	1.00	.889	4.00	2.21	80.8	274.0	3.8
1918	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	10	4	4	4	8.0	4.50	1.750	4.50	3.04	111.4	60.5	4.0
1920	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1.0	0.00	.000	18.00	-1.10	-28.1	—	8.0
1925	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2.0	0.00	1.000	4.50	3.61	77.7	—	1.7
1926	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	3	2.0	0.00	1.000	13.50	2.92	68.5	—	-0.8
1928	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	5.77	148.8	—	1.5

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

2,055

221st-most career G

9,013

166th-most career PA

8,267

126th-most career AB

1,284

137th-most career R

2,812

52nd-most career H

425

152nd-most career 2B

164

30th-most career 3B

102

RBI

1,175

176th-most career RBI

472

327

375

91st-most career SB

.3401

22nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3792

196th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4682

304th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8474

207th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

111

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

2.351

WHIP

1.2883

K/9

5.11

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
1921-08-13	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	1	5	2	1	1	3	12
1925-05-31	BAL @ CWS Gameday	6	4	5	0	1	1	3	10
1920-08-08	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	4	10
1919-06-03	BAL @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	0	10
1927-07-12	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	5	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1915-07-03	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	9	9
1916-09-17	MIN @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	6
1915-08-15	BAL @ CLE Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	0	5
1915-08-24	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5.0	5	1	1	4	5
1915-07-15	MIN @ BAL Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	1	4

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, 1939 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.