Kermit Dial
Chicago American Giants 1932; Columbus Blue Birds 1933; Detroit Stars 1937
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 11 | 34 | 31 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .161 | .212 | .258 | .470 | 46.4 | 43.1 | .228 | 0.3 |
| 1933 | 22 | 77 | 71 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .293 | .324 | .617 | 71.9 | 68.7 | .284 | -0.6 |
| 1937 | 6 | 22 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .211 | .318 | .211 | .529 | 65.9 | 48.7 | .271 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 13.0 | 2.08 | 1.692 | 3.46 | 4.75 | 127.3 | 179.4 | 0.3 |
| 1933 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 22.0 | 8.18 | 1.545 | 3.68 | 5.76 | 133.6 | 52.7 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-05-28 | CBB @ BBS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1933-06-05 | BBS @ CBB Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1932-06-19 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1933-06-11 | TIC @ CBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1933-05-14 | IND @ CBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-07-05 | CAG @ CBB Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 1932-06-04 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 7.0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 1932-06-14 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 1933-07-29 | CAG @ CBB Gameday | 4.0 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1932-04-23 | IND @ CAG 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.