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Dots Miller

John Barney Miller

Positions: First Baseman, Second Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: September 9, 1886 in Kearny, NJ (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1909
Teams (by GP): Pirates/Cardinals/Phillies 1909-1921

Final Game: September 27, 1921
Died: September 5, 1923 in Saranac Lake, NY
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington, NJ
Relatives: Uncle of Jack Tighe
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 12, 2012, 12:14AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #984. Lou Bierbauer… #985. Taffy Wright… #986. Steve Brodie… #987. DOTS MILLER… #988. Jerry Priddy… #989. Jimmy Barrett… #990. Muddy Ruel… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1909 22 PIT NL 151 631 560 71 156 31 13 3 87 14 39 49 .279 .329 .396 .725 120 222 3 29 *4
1910 23 PIT NL 120 504 444 45 101 13 10 1 48 11 33 41 .227 .284 .309 .592 68 137 2 25 *4/36
1911 24 PIT NL 137 556 470 82 126 17 8 6 78 17 51 48 .268 .348 .377 .725 99 177 7 28 *4
1912 25 PIT NL 148 628 567 74 156 33 12 4 87 18 37 45 .275 .324 .397 .721 97 225 4 20 *3
1913 26 PIT NL 154 643 580 75 158 24 20 7 90 20 13 37 52 .272 .317 .419 .736 113 243 1 25 *3/6 MVP-8
1914 27 STL NL 155 634 573 67 166 27 10 4 88 16 34 52 .290 .339 .393 .732 118 225 9 18 36/4 MVP-5
1915 28 STL NL 150 626 553 73 146 17 10 2 72 27 19 43 48 .264 .324 .342 .666 101 189 6 24 34/56
1916 29 STL NL 143 560 505 47 120 22 7 1 46 18 0 40 49 .238 .300 .315 .615 90 159 5 10 346/5
1917 30 STL NL 148 598 544 61 135 15 9 2 45 14 33 52 .248 .295 .320 .615 91 174 3 18 436
1919 32 STL NL 101 378 346 38 80 10 4 1 24 6 13 23 .231 .265 .292 .557 72 101 3 16 34
1920 33 PHI NL 98 375 343 41 87 12 2 1 27 13 6 16 17 .254 .289 .309 .598 69 106 1 15 456/3O
1921 34 PHI NL 84 343 320 37 95 11 3 0 23 3 5 15 27 .297 .330 .350 .680 75 112 1 7 53/4
12 Seasons 1589 6476 5805 711 1526 232 108 32 715 177 43 391 503 .263 .314 .357 .671 95 2070 45 235
162 Game Avg. 162 660 592 72 156 24 11 3 73 18 40 51 .263 .314 .357 .671 95 211 5 24
PIT (5 yrs) 710 2962 2621 347 697 118 63 21 390 80 13 197 235 .266 .321 .383 .704 101 1004 17 127
STL (5 yrs) 697 2796 2521 286 647 91 40 10 275 81 19 163 224 .257 .308 .336 .645 97 848 26 86
PHI (2 yrs) 182 718 663 78 182 23 5 1 50 16 11 31 44 .275 .309 .329 .638 72 218 2 22

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1909 22 PIT NL 631 14 0 0 0 9 0 18 41 4.4 32 3.5 0.9 $ *4
1910 23 PIT NL 504 -19 0 0 0 -1 0 14 -6 -0.9 -5 -0.5 -0.4 $ *4/36
1911 24 PIT NL 556 4 1 0 0 11 0 15 31 3.2 20 2.1 1.1 $ *4
1912 25 PIT NL 628 -4 0 0 0 3 -5 17 11 1.1 8 0.8 0.3 $ *3
1913 26 PIT NL 643 11 1 0 0 -4 -5 18 21 2.2 25 2.6 -0.4 $ *3/6 MVP-8
1914 27 STL NL 634 9 -1 0 0 7 1 18 34 3.5 27 2.8 0.7 $ 36/4 MVP-5
1915 28 STL NL 626 2 2 0 0 2 -3 17 20 2.1 18 2.0 0.1 $ 34/56
1916 29 STL NL 560 -7 2 0 0 0 -2 16 9 0.8 9 1.1 -0.3 $ 346/5
1917 30 STL NL 598 -8 1 0 0 12 -1 17 21 1.9 9 1.0 0.9 $ 436
1919 32 STL NL 378 -12 0 0 0 1 -2 10 -3 -0.5 -4 -0.5 0.0 $ 34
1920 33 PHI NL 375 -14 2 0 0 -6 3 11 -4 -0.6 2 0.2 -0.8 $ 456/3O
1921 34 PHI NL 343 -14 -1 0 0 -2 0 10 -7 -0.7 -5 -0.5 -0.2 $ 53/4
12 Seasons 6476 -38 7 0 0 32 -14 181 168 16.5 136 14.6 1.9 $
PIT (5 yrs) 2962 6 2 0 0 18 -10 82 98 10.0 80 8.5 1.5 $
STL (5 yrs) 2796 -16 4 0 0 22 -7 78 81 7.8 59 6.4 1.4 $
PHI (2 yrs) 718 -28 1 0 0 -8 3 21 -11 -1.3 -3 -0.3 -1.0 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1909 22 PIT NL WS DET W 7 30 28 2 7 1 0 0 4 3 0 2 5 .250 .300 .286 .586 8 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 7 30 28 2 7 1 0 0 4 3 0 2 5 .250 .300 .286 .586 8 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1909 PIT NL 22 2B 150 720 260 426 34 50 .953 4.57 .938 4.87
1910 PIT NL 23 2B 119 614 263 318 33 45 .946 4.88 .952 5.23
1910 PIT NL 23 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10.40
1910 PIT NL 23 SS 1 6 3 3 0 0 1.000 6.00 .923 5.20
1911 PIT NL 24 2B 129 668 273 357 38 65 .943 4.88 .952 5.21
1912 PIT NL 25 1B 147 1493 1385 85 23 93 .985 10.00 .988 10.17
1913 PIT NL 26 1B 150 1500 1400 78 22 67 .985 9.85 .986 10.40 MVP-8
1913 PIT NL 26 SS 3 13 6 4 3 1 .769 3.33 .937 5.33 MVP-8
1914 STL NL 27 1B 91 1084 1019 57 8 46 .993 11.82 .988 10.60 MVP-5
1914 STL NL 27 SS 60 354 152 182 20 19 .944 5.57 .925 5.38 MVP-5
1914 STL NL 27 2B 5 15 5 8 2 2 .867 2.60 .949 5.20 MVP-5
1915 STL NL 28 1B 94 1060 1000 50 10 54 .991 11.17 .990 10.61
1915 STL NL 28 2B 55 301 136 156 9 28 .970 5.31 .955 5.05
1915 STL NL 28 3B 9 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.11 .950 3.13
1915 STL NL 28 SS 3 15 6 8 1 1 .933 4.67 .931 5.43
1916 STL NL 29 1B 93 998 948 43 7 60 .993 10.66 .987 10.80
1916 STL NL 29 2B 38 175 72 98 5 14 .971 4.47 .951 5.12
1916 STL NL 29 SS 21 101 36 58 7 10 .931 4.48 .926 5.52
1916 STL NL 29 3B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .940 3.20
1917 STL NL 30 2B 92 549 219 308 22 56 .960 5.73 .956 5.33
1917 STL NL 30 1B 46 545 518 26 1 36 .998 11.83 .988 10.92
1917 STL NL 30 SS 11 51 18 28 5 8 .902 4.18 .931 5.34
1919 STL NL 32 1B 68 741 687 40 14 33 .981 10.69 .988 11.24
1919 STL NL 32 2B 28 164 69 87 8 15 .951 5.57 .960 5.43
1920 PHI NL 33 2B 59 310 134 160 16 34 .948 4.98 .963 5.73
1920 PHI NL 33 3B 17 65 20 41 4 2 .938 3.59 .947 3.16
1920 PHI NL 33 SS 12 54 20 28 6 5 .889 4.00 .941 5.73
1920 PHI NL 33 1B 9 86 80 5 1 7 .988 9.44 .990 11.09
1920 PHI NL 33 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.30
1920 PHI NL 33 LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.20
1921 PHI NL 34 3B 41 117 37 73 7 9 .940 2.68 .941 3.06
1921 PHI NL 34 1B 38 430 396 23 11 26 .974 11.03 .990 10.79
1921 PHI NL 34 2B 6 26 8 17 1 1 .962 4.17 .962 5.70
10 Seasons 1B 737 7937 7433 407 97 422 .988 10.64 .988 10.59
10 Seasons 2B 681 3542 1439 1935 168 310 .953 4.95 .951 5.20
7 Seasons SS 111 594 241 311 42 44 .929 4.97 .928 5.44
4 Seasons 3B 68 184 57 116 11 11 .940 2.54 .943 3.10
1 Season OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.30
1 Season LF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.20
12 Seasons TOT 1598 12257 9170 2769 318 787 .974 7.47 .974 7.61
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1948 BBWAA ( 0.8%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1913 NL (8, 17%)
1914 NL (5, 28%)
0.45 Career Shares (472nd)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1909 NL  4.4 (8th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1909 NL  0.9 (5th)
1911 NL  1.1 (4th)
1917 NL  0.9 (5th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1909 NL  .396 (7th)

Games Played s c a p y
1909 NL  151 (8th)
1912 NL  148 (5th)
1913 NL  154 (3rd)
1914 NL  155 (3rd)

At Bats s c a p y
1912 NL  567 (6th)
1913 NL  580 (5th)
1914 NL  573 (7th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1913 NL  643 (7th)
1914 NL  634 (8th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1915 NL  73 (9th)

Hits s c a p y
1909 NL  156 (9th)
1913 NL  158 (9th)
1914 NL  166 (6th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1909 NL  222 (5th)
1913 NL  243 (4th)
1914 NL  225 (8th)

Doubles s c a p y
1909 NL  31 (3rd)
1912 NL  33 (4th)
1914 NL  27 (5th)

Triples s c a p y
1909 NL  13 (4th)
1912 NL  12 (10th)
1913 NL  20 (2nd)
1914 NL  10 (8th)
Career  108 (130th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1913 NL  7 (10th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1909 NL  87 (3rd)
1912 NL  87 (7th)
1913 NL  90 (4th)
1914 NL  88 (4th)
1915 NL  72 (7th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1915 NL  27 (6th)

Singles s c a p y
1914 NL  125 (5th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1909 NL  72 (7th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1909 NL  47 (3rd)
1912 NL  49 (7th)
1913 NL  51 (5th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1914 NL  209 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1911 NL  7 (9th)
1914 NL  9 (5th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1909 NL  29 (8th)
1911 NL  28 (5th)
1913 NL  25 (5th)
1915 NL  24 (8th)
Career  235 (48th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1915 NL  19 (7th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1913 NL  10.4 (9th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1909 NL  433 (9th)
1912 NL  431 (3rd)
1913 NL  460 (6th)
1914 NL  425 (10th)
1917 NL  427 (6th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1912 NL  1,385 (3rd)
1913 NL  1,406 (5th)
1914 NL  1,176 (5th)

Assists† s c a p y
1909 NL  426 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1912 NL  147 (1st)
1913 NL  150 (3rd)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1912 NL  1,385 (3rd)
1913 NL  1,400 (5th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1912 NL  85 (4th)
1913 NL  78 (5th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1912 NL  23 (2nd)
1913 NL  22 (3rd)
1919 NL  14 (5th)
1921 NL  11 (5th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  150 (1st)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  260 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  426 (1st)
1911 NL  357 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  34 (5th)
1910 NL  33 (4th)
1911 NL  38 (3rd)
Career  168 (90th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1914 NL  11.82 (1st)
1915 NL  11.17 (1st)
1916 NL  10.66 (5th)
Career  10.64 (18th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1914 NL  .993 (3rd)
1915 NL  .991 (5th)
1916 NL  .993 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1917 NL  5.73 (1st)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1909 NL  .953 (2nd)
1917 NL  .960 (5th)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 58 (434), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 5 (1535), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 9 (1666), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  7. Harry Steinfeldt (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Harry Steinfeldt (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Harry Steinfeldt (954)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Howie Shanks (939)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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  12. Howie Shanks (931)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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