Norm Siebern

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornJuly 26, 1933 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutJune 15, 1956

Final gameJuly 30, 1968

Seasons12 (1956–1968)

New York Yankees 1956; New York Yankees 1958–1959; Kansas City Athletics 1960–1963; Baltimore Orioles 1964–1965; California Angels 1966; Boston Red Sox 1967; San Francisco Giants 1967; Boston Red Sox 1968

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified batters

150

43.6

596

40.4

478

14.9

77.7

117

10.6

51.1

8.5

RBI

31.9

106

100

38.3

19.1

43.6

.245

14.9

OBP

.379

87.2

SLG

.379

29.8

OPS

.758

wRC+

122.5

58.5

OPS+

114.2

53.2

wOBA

.353

58.5

sWAR

2.3

41.5

of 95 qualified 1964 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.0

78.9

OPS+

116.7

sWAR

20.8

93.9

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
1956	54	184	162	27	33	1	4	4	21	19	38	1	1	.204	.286	.333	.619	67.2	67.7	.291	-0.4
1958	134	533	460	79	138	19	5	14	55	66	87	5	8	.300	.388	.454	.842	141.0	137.2	.383	3.8
1959	120	431	380	52	103	17	0	11	53	41	71	3	1	.271	.341	.403	.744	108.5	108.4	.338	1.4
1960	144	602	520	69	145	31	6	19	69	72	68	0	0	.279	.366	.471	.837	123.5	122.7	.376	2.7
1961	153	649	560	68	166	36	5	18	98	82	91	2	4	.296	.384	.475	.859	127.6	125.3	.385	3.2
1962	162	719	600	114	185	25	6	25	117	110	88	3	1	.308	.412	.495	.907	141.2	137.5	.404	4.6
1963	152	644	556	80	151	25	2	16	83	79	82	1	4	.272	.358	.410	.768	111.0	108.6	.346	1.7
1964	150	596	478	92	117	24	2	12	56	106	87	2	3	.245	.379	.379	.758	122.5	114.2	.353	2.3
1965	106	353	297	44	76	13	4	8	32	50	49	1	2	.256	.362	.407	.769	119.9	118.4	.349	1.3
1966	125	404	336	29	83	14	1	5	41	63	61	0	1	.247	.361	.339	.701	109.7	106.0	.325	0.9
1967	79	122	102	8	18	1	3	0	11	20	21	0	0	.176	.311	.245	.557	70.5	61.9	.279	-0.3
1968	27	30	30	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	.067	.067	.067	.133	-97.4	-60.6	.062	-0.6

Career totals

1,406

5,267

4,481

662

1,217

206

132

RBI

636

708

374th-most career BB

748

.2716

OBP

.3688

311th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4229

OPS

.7917

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
1958-07-04	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	3	5	0	1	1	2	1	10
1962-08-21	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	4	1	10
1960-08-02	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1961-05-30	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1962-08-28	LAA @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-27	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-19	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-20	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-21	LAA @ ATH 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.

Honors

1× Gold Glove3× 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.