Roy Sievers

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 18, 1926 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1949

Final gameMay 9, 1965

Seasons17 (1949–1965)

St. Louis Browns 1949–1953; Washington Senators 1954–1959; Chicago White Sox 1960–1961; Philadelphia Phillies 1962–1964; Washington Senators 1964–1965

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified batters

138

11.9

509

450

8.9

108

22.8

12.9

65.3

RBI

73.3

43.6

55.4

57.4

.240

17.8

OBP

.308

31.7

SLG

.418

54.5

OPS

.725

45.5

wRC+

107.3

48.5

OPS+

109.1

52.5

wOBA

.324

42.6

sWAR

1.0

19.8

of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.7

81.2

OPS+

122.9

83.3

sWAR

33.3

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
1949	140	545	471	84	144	28	1	16	91	70	75	1	5	.306	.398	.471	.869	123.3	122.6	.409	3.3
1950	113	408	370	46	88	20	4	10	57	34	42	1	3	.238	.305	.395	.700	67.2	72.8	.323	-0.3
1951	31	99	89	10	20	2	1	1	11	9	21	0	0	.225	.303	.303	.606	58.3	60.4	.292	-0.2
1952	11	32	30	3	6	3	0	0	5	1	4	0	0	.200	.226	.300	.526	28.2	42.4	.243	-0.2
1953	92	323	285	37	77	15	0	8	35	32	47	0	1	.270	.344	.407	.751	100.6	101.1	.348	0.4
1954	145	609	514	75	119	26	6	24	102	80	77	2	1	.232	.331	.446	.777	113.9	116.5	.355	2.3
1955	144	591	509	74	138	20	8	25	106	73	66	1	2	.271	.364	.489	.853	128.7	129.0	.389	3.3
1956	152	659	550	92	139	27	2	29	95	100	88	0	0	.253	.370	.467	.838	119.2	120.4	.379	2.7
1957	152	657	572	99	172	23	5	42	114	76	55	1	1	.301	.388	.579	.967	160.4	159.0	.425	6.1
1958	148	614	550	85	162	18	1	39	108	53	63	3	1	.295	.357	.544	.900	144.9	144.3	.395	4.6
1959	115	444	385	55	93	19	0	21	49	53	62	1	1	.242	.333	.455	.788	111.6	114.2	.350	1.2
1960	127	525	444	87	131	22	0	28	93	74	69	1	1	.295	.396	.534	.930	152.0	152.2	.411	4.1
1961	141	563	492	76	145	26	6	27	92	61	62	1	0	.295	.377	.537	.913	143.6	144.6	.401	3.8
1962	144	543	477	61	125	19	5	21	80	56	80	2	1	.262	.346	.455	.801	117.0	116.2	.360	1.8
1963	138	509	450	46	108	19	2	19	82	43	72	0	2	.240	.308	.418	.725	107.3	109.1	.324	1.0
1964	82	203	178	12	32	4	1	8	27	22	34	0	0	.180	.271	.348	.619	69.7	73.2	.278	-0.5
1965	12	25	21	3	4	1	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	.190	.320	.238	.558	71.9	61.8	.281	-0.1

Career totals

1,887

340th-most career G

7,349

391st-most career PA

6,387

422nd-most career AB

945

424th-most career R

1,703

481st-most career H

292

318

141st-most career HR

RBI

1,147

194th-most career RBI

841

233rd-most career BB

920

486th-most career SO

.2666

OBP

.3538

SLG

.4749

265th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8287

293rd-highest career OPS

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
1962-07-28	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
1955-07-18	MIN @ ATH Gameday	3	3	3	1	0	2	3	1	10
1961-06-12	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	3	0	10
1960-08-24	CWS @ NYY Gameday	3	2	3	1	0	2	2	1	10
1949-09-20	BAL @ MIN Gameday	6	1	4	2	0	1	6	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1949-04-19	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-20	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-21	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-22	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-23	BAL @ 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.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year4× 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.