MLB / Players

Vic Saier

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornMay 4, 1891 · Lansing, MI, USA

MLB debutMay 3, 1911

Final gameAugust 5, 1919

Seasons8 (1911–1919)

Chicago Cubs 1911–1917; Pittsburgh Pirates 1919

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified batters

147

69.7

590

65.5

498

56.3

60.5

126

51.3

33.6

90.8

RBI

67.2

7.6

69.7

16.8

.253

29.4

OBP

.356

65.5

SLG

.357

50.4

OPS

.714

58.8

wRC+

125.0

70.6

OPS+

118.4

64.7

wOBA

.347

57.1

sWAR

2.3

63.9

of 120 qualified 1916 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.0

81.8

OPS+

121.2

81.2

sWAR

13.2

89.8

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
1911	86	302	259	42	67	15	1	1	37	25	37	11	0	.259	.340	.336	.676	92.9	91.2	.331	0.1
1912	122	500	451	74	130	25	14	2	61	34	65	11	0	.288	.340	.419	.759	105.2	108.3	.356	1.0
1913	149	600	519	94	150	15	21	14	92	62	62	26	0	.289	.370	.480	.850	140.3	141.5	.396	3.6
1914	153	658	537	87	129	24	8	18	72	94	61	19	0	.240	.357	.415	.773	131.1	129.3	.373	3.2
1915	144	568	497	74	131	35	11	11	64	64	62	29	9	.264	.350	.445	.795	135.8	134.5	.376	3.1
1916	147	590	498	60	126	25	3	7	50	79	68	20	17	.253	.356	.357	.714	125.0	118.4	.347	2.3
1917	6	23	21	5	5	1	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	.238	.304	.286	.590	76.5	76.3	.290	0.0
1919	58	190	166	19	37	3	3	2	17	18	13	5	0	.223	.306	.313	.620	86.9	85.0	.302	-0.1

Career totals

865

3,431

2,948

455

775

143

RBI

395

378

369

121

.2629

OBP

.3510

SLG

.4088

OPS

.7598

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
1915-05-27	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	3	9
1914-07-02	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
1915-04-19	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	3	7
1914-07-14	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	4	7
1912-08-10	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	0	3	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1911-04-12	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-16	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-17	PIT @ CHC 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.