MLB / Players

Sam Rice

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 150 lb

BornFebruary 20, 1890 · Morocco, IN, USA

MLB debutAugust 7, 1915

Final gameSeptember 18, 1934

Seasons20 (1915–1934)

Washington Senators 1915–1933; Cleveland Indians 1934

Percentile snapshot

1930 season — qualified batters

147

78.4

668

84.3

593

86.6

121

86.6

207

74.6

85.1

RBI

60.4

73.9

61.9

78.4

.349

76.1

OBP

.407

68.7

SLG

.457

44.8

OPS

.864

53.7

wRC+

120.9

64.2

OPS+

120.0

61.9

wOBA

.393

55.2

sWAR

3.4

71.6

of 135 qualified 1930 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.8

67.3

OPS+

113.7

69.8

sWAR

43.7

98.3

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
1915	4	8	8	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.375	.375	.375	.750	120.0	124.6	.364	0.5
1916	58	214	197	26	59	8	3	1	17	15	13	4	0	.299	.352	.386	.738	122.8	124.2	.360	1.2
1917	155	653	586	77	177	25	7	0	69	50	41	35	0	.302	.360	.369	.729	124.3	124.2	.358	3.2
1918	7	25	23	3	8	1	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	.348	.400	.391	.791	144.5	141.8	.391	0.2
1919	141	613	557	80	179	23	9	3	71	42	26	26	0	.321	.376	.411	.787	123.8	122.9	.375	3.2
1920	153	686	624	83	211	29	9	3	80	39	23	63	30	.338	.381	.428	.809	116.0	116.4	.378	3.9
1921	143	630	561	83	185	39	13	4	79	38	10	26	12	.330	.382	.467	.849	118.6	119.9	.390	3.7
1922	154	689	633	91	187	37	13	6	69	48	13	20	9	.295	.347	.423	.770	102.8	104.6	.355	2.8
1923	148	671	595	117	188	35	18	3	75	57	12	20	8	.316	.381	.450	.832	123.2	124.3	.389	3.4
1924	154	712	646	106	216	39	14	1	76	46	24	24	13	.334	.382	.443	.825	114.7	116.0	.386	3.1
1925	152	709	649	111	227	31	13	1	87	37	10	26	11	.350	.388	.442	.831	112.8	113.7	.386	2.9
1926	152	703	641	98	216	32	14	3	76	42	20	24	23	.337	.380	.445	.824	116.5	117.6	.383	3.2
1927	142	651	603	98	179	33	14	2	65	36	11	19	6	.297	.336	.408	.744	91.2	93.8	.344	0.7
1928	148	681	616	95	202	32	15	2	55	49	15	16	3	.328	.379	.438	.818	115.5	115.3	.377	2.9
1929	150	694	616	119	199	39	10	1	62	55	9	16	8	.323	.382	.424	.806	108.9	107.8	.372	2.3
1930	147	668	593	121	207	35	13	1	73	55	14	13	8	.349	.407	.457	.864	120.9	120.0	.393	3.4
1931	120	460	413	81	128	21	8	0	42	35	11	6	5	.310	.365	.400	.765	103.2	102.8	.356	1.2
1932	106	323	288	58	93	16	7	1	34	32	6	7	4	.323	.391	.438	.828	118.6	117.9	.381	1.5
1933	73	89	85	19	25	4	3	1	12	2	7	0	2	.294	.326	.447	.773	101.0	105.3	.350	0.2
1934	97	367	335	48	98	19	1	1	33	28	9	5	1	.293	.351	.364	.715	85.3	84.9	.337	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1915	4	2	1	0	0	1	0	13	4	9	9	0	18.0	2.00	1.222	4.50	2.88	98.3	146.3	0.5
1916	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	18	7	10	3	0	21.3	2.95	1.313	1.27	3.45	124.9	93.6	1.2

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

2,404

87th-most career G

10,246

68th-most career PA

9,269

61st-most career AB

1,514

68th-most career R

2,987

34th-most career H

498

67th-most career 2B

184

14th-most career 3B

RBI

1,078

234th-most career RBI

708

374th-most career BB

275

351

112th-most career SB

.3223

59th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3739

249th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4267

OPS

.8006

497th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

2.517

WHIP

1.2712

K/9

2.75

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
1921-06-13	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	2	5	2	0	1	1	10
1921-07-24	MIN @ DET Gameday	6	2	5	2	1	0	3	9
1921-04-19	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	3	9
1925-06-01	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	5	1	1	0	0	8
1934-06-15	CLE @ ATH Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	1	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1915-09-07	MIN @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	4	2	4	4
1915-09-11	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5.1	7	3	2	5	3
1916-07-05	NYY @ MIN Gameday	8.0	11	6	6	2	2
1915-08-10	DET @ MIN Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	2
1916-06-22	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5.1	4	2	0	6	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, 1963 (Veterans)

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