Sonny Dixon
Washington Senators 1953; Philadelphia Athletics 1954; Washington Senators 1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955; New York Yankees 1956
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 43 | 32 | 26 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .267 | .192 | .459 | 29.4 | 27.3 | .237 | 1.4 |
| 1954 | 54 | 36 | 34 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .250 | .265 | .515 | 29.9 | 39.8 | .245 | 0.4 |
| 1955 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1956 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 43 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 123 | 50 | 31 | 40 | 13 | 120.0 | 3.75 | 1.283 | 3.00 | 4.13 | 106.3 | 103.7 | 1.4 |
| 1954 | 54 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 162 | 68 | 39 | 49 | 11 | 137.0 | 4.47 | 1.467 | 3.22 | 3.63 | 95.9 | 85.1 | 0.4 |
| 1955 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.7 | 16.20 | 3.600 | 0.00 | 10.23 | 249.0 | 25.4 | -0.2 |
| 1956 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4.3 | 2.08 | 2.308 | 2.08 | 5.51 | 139.2 | 190.4 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-07-25 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-07-04 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-06-04 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1954-07-04 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1954-07-29 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-08-25 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 |
| 1953-08-31 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1954-07-11 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1953-05-30 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1953-06-04 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 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.