Martín Dihigo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornMay 25, 1905 · Cidra, Matanzas, Cuba

Final gameSeptember 30, 1945

Seasons12 (1923–1945)

Cuban Stars East 1923–1927; Homestead Grays 1928; Hilldale Club 1929–1930; Baltimore Black Sox 1931; Hilldale Club 1931; New York Cubans 1935–1936; New York Cubans 1945

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

14.2

151

13.3

127

12.5

1.7

63.3

RBI

21.7

24.2

87.5

66.7

39.2

.299

48.3

OBP

.407

SLG

.591

OPS

.997

93.3

wRC+

141.5

86.7

OPS+

151.8

90.8

wOBA

.443

sWAR

2.9

68.3

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 145 PA)

1936 season — qualified pitchers

7.8

22.2

96.7

24.4

SHO

86.7

84.4

92.2

36.7

63.3

75.7

14.4

ERA

4.04

53.3

WHIP

1.189

93.3

K/9

6.66

93.3

FIP

4.53

51.1

FIP-

88.7

ERA+

126.3

75.6

sWAR

2.9

65.6

of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 47 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

23.9

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
1923	36	141	125	16	25	3	3	0	15	8	3	1	0	.200	.248	.272	.520	54.4	45.8	.248	-0.2
1924	49	201	186	31	50	8	4	2	30	13	2	4	1	.269	.320	.387	.707	91.0	91.2	.330	1.7
1925	43	185	160	21	49	8	2	3	22	19	0	3	0	.306	.380	.438	.817	110.7	111.0	.377	2.0
1926	43	186	152	42	57	9	2	14	44	29	11	8	1	.375	.475	.737	1.212	203.9	228.8	.540	3.5
1927	55	236	215	44	68	9	2	13	48	16	0	9	0	.316	.369	.558	.927	131.5	140.7	.417	2.5
1928	19	78	67	13	21	1	1	4	13	9	1	0	1	.313	.395	.537	.932	136.3	143.7	.420	0.6
1929	78	336	271	68	90	14	4	18	79	56	2	8	1	.332	.448	.613	1.061	146.3	156.8	.473	5.0
1930	1	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	130.9	130.4	.457	0.0
1931	49	195	166	39	56	8	5	7	35	23	1	1	1	.337	.424	.572	.996	159.8	169.9	.447	2.5
1935	42	165	144	30	47	12	1	7	34	18	2	7	0	.326	.409	.569	.978	136.1	144.0	.433	2.7
1936	39	151	127	31	38	8	1	9	33	22	0	7	0	.299	.407	.591	.997	141.5	151.8	.443	2.9
1945	17	56	49	9	15	1	0	2	7	7	0	1	0	.306	.393	.449	.842	132.3	135.5	.399	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	5	3	2	2	0	2	35	15	9	11	2	33.3	4.05	1.320	2.97	4.43	112.1	97.5	-0.2
1924	9	4	3	3	1	3	44	15	14	25	3	49.3	2.74	1.176	4.56	4.43	100.8	160.4	1.7
1925	10	7	3	4	1	6	70	29	25	28	0	65.0	4.02	1.462	3.88	4.77	97.7	121.5	2.0
1926	5	4	3	1	1	4	36	16	13	28	0	35.0	4.11	1.400	7.20	3.02	67.6	108.8	3.5
1927	2	2	2	0	0	2	20	5	8	17	0	18.0	2.50	1.556	8.50	2.85	62.1	183.3	2.5
1928	2	2	1	1	0	2	27	12	4	14	4	17.0	6.35	1.824	7.41	5.57	126.7	69.2	0.6
1929	8	5	4	3	0	5	43	15	12	29	2	51.3	2.63	1.071	5.08	4.25	78.1	207.2	5.0
1931	2	2	1	1	0	2	19	7	6	9	1	18.0	3.50	1.389	4.50	3.88	105.7	105.0	2.5
1935	8	5	3	1	0	3	37	13	16	38	1	43.3	2.70	1.223	7.89	3.71	72.7	188.8	2.7
1936	10	8	6	2	0	6	73	34	17	56	7	75.7	4.04	1.189	6.66	4.53	88.7	126.3	2.9
1945	3	3	0	3	0	2	24	12	6	12	4	23.3	4.63	1.286	4.63	5.69	138.1	89.1	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

471

1,934

1,666

344

518

RBI

361

220

.3109

OBP

.3942

SLG

.5318

OPS

.9260

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

429

SO (P)

267

BB allowed

130

ERA

3.627

WHIP

1.2997

K/9

5.60

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1936-06-07	NE @ NYC Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	5	0	10
1935-07-28	NYC @ HOM Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	4	1	8
1935-09-01	PHS @ NYC Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	2	0	7
1936-07-26	PHS @ NYC Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	3	1	7
1936-09-06	NBY @ NYC Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-05-05	NYC @ CAG Gameday	8.0	7	4	3	8	11	0
1936-06-28	TIC @ NYC Gameday	9.0	8	5	4	2	9	1
1935-08-25	NE @ NYC Gameday	9.0	13	4	2	4	8	1
1936-08-01	HOM @ NYC Gameday	9.0	10	5	3	2	8	2
1936-09-04	NYC @ BEG Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	8	1

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, 1977 (Negro League)

2× All-Star

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