Dick Siebert

Richard Walther Siebert

Positions: First Baseman and Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: February 19, 1912 in Fall River, MA
High School: Concordia Academy (St. Paul, MN)
School: Concordia University-Saint Paul (St. Paul, MN) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 7, 1932
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Cardinals/Dodgers 1932-1945

Final Game: September 23, 1945
Died: December 9, 1978 in Minneapolis, MN
Buried: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN
Relatives: Father of Paul Siebert
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All-Star

Standard Batting

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	Pos	Awards
1929	17	WBO	D	9	15	15		1	0	0	0						.067	.067	.067	.133		1					WBO · BLRI
1930	18	WBO	D	13	38	38		12	2	0	0						.316	.316	.368	.684		14					WBO · BLRI
1932	20	DAY	B	98	380	380		131	22	16	15						.345	.345	.605	.950		230					DAY · CENL
1932	20	BRO	NL	6	9	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	2	.286	.444	.286	.730	103	2		0	0	/3

1933	21	LAD-min	A,C	134	505	505		142	15	4	1						.281	.281	.333	.614		168					YOR,DAY · NYPL,MATL
1934	22	LAD-min	C,AA	67	271	271		99	16	13	3						.365	.365	.554	.919		150					DAY,ALB · MATL,IL
1935	23	BFL	AA	140	534	534		158	30	7	13						.296	.296	.451	.747		241					BFL · IL
1936	24	INA	AA	123	466	466		154	30	5	5						.330	.330	.448	.779		209					INA · AA
1936	24	BRO	NL	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	0	/O9
1937	25	STL-min	AA	88	352	352		112	15	6	7						.318	.318	.455	.773		160					CLB · AA
1937	25	STL	NL	22	43	38	3	7	2	0	0	2	1		4	8	.184	.279	.237	.516	41	9	0	1	0	/3
1938	26	STL-min	AA	9	36	36		12	1	0	0						.333	.333	.361	.694		13					CLB · AA
1938	26	TOT	MLB	49	210	195	24	56	8	3	0	28	2	3	10	9	.287	.332	.359	.691	76	70	0	3	2	3
1938	26	STL	NL	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	440	1	0	0	0
1938	26	PHA	AL	48	209	194	24	55	8	3	0	28	2	3	10	9	.284	.329	.356	.684	74	69		3	2	3
1939	27	PHA	AL	101	433	402	58	118	28	3	6	47	4	1	21	22	.294	.329	.423	.751	93	170	6	0	10	3
1940	28	PHA	AL	154	636	595	69	170	31	6	5	77	8	6	33	34	.286	.325	.383	.709	85	228	12	2	7	*3
1941	29	PHA	AL	123	513	467	63	156	28	8	5	79	1	3	37	22	.334	.385	.460	.846	126	215	12	2	7	*3	MVP-17
1942	30	PHA	AL	153	642	612	57	159	25	7	2	74	4	5	24	17	.260	.291	.333	.624	76	204	8	3	3	*3
1943	31	PHA	AL	146	594	558	50	140	26	7	1	72	6	7	33	21	.251	.295	.328	.623	83	183	19	2	1	*3	AS,MVP-33
1944	32	PHA	AL	132	535	468	52	143	27	5	6	52	2	0	62	17	.306	.387	.423	.810	134	198	5	0	5	3O79	MVP-29
1945	33	PHA	AL	147	633	573	62	153	29	1	7	51	2	7	50	33	.267	.328	.358	.686	101	205	8	2	8	*3
11 Yrs				1035	4250	3917	439	1104	204	40	32	482	30	32	276	185	.282	.332	.379	.710	96	1484	71	15	43
162 Game Avg.				162	665	613	69	173	32	6	5	75	5		43	29	.282	.332	.379	.710	96	232		2	7

PHA (8 yrs)				1004	4195	3869	435	1094	202	40	32	480	29	32	270	175	.283	.332	.380	.712	97	1472	70	14	43
STL (2 yrs)				23	44	39	3	8	2	0	0	2	1		4	8	.205	.295	.256	.552	50	10	0	1	0
BRO (2 yrs)				8	11	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	2	.222	.364	.222	.586	63	2	1	0	0

AL (8 yrs)				1004	4195	3869	435	1094	202	40	32	480	29	32	270	175	.283	.332	.380	.712	97	1472	70	14	43
NL (4 yrs)				31	55	48	4	10	2	0	0	2	1		6	10	.208	.309	.250	.559	53	12	1	1	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
1932	20	BRO	NL	6	9	0	0	0	0	-0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.500	.500	0.0	-0.0	0	$	/3

1936	24	BRO	NL	2	2	-0	0	0	0	0	-0	-0.1	0	-0	-0.1	.474	.500	-0.1	0.0	-0	$	/O9
1937	25	STL	NL	22	43	-3	0	0	0	-0	-3	-0.4	1	-2	-0.2	.484	.498	-0.2	-0.0	-2	$	/3
1938	26	STL	NL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.541	.500	0.0	0.0	0	$
1938	26	PHA	AL	48	209	-7	-1	0	3	-2	-7	-0.6	7	-0	0.0	.487	.496	-0.2	0.1	-3	$	3
1939	27	PHA	AL	101	433	-4	1	0	1	-5	-7	-0.7	14	6	0.7	.493	.496	0.6	-0.3	5	$	3
1940	28	PHA	AL	154	636	-11	-0	0	1	-7	-18	-1.7	16	-2	-0.1	.489	.489	-0.2	-0.5	-3	$	*3
1941	29	PHA	AL	123	513	18	-1	0	6	-6	18	1.8	13	30	3.1	.514	.511	2.5	0.1	24	$9,500	*3	MVP-17
1942	30	PHA	AL	153	642	-18	-1	0	-1	-7	-27	-2.9	14	-14	-1.6	.481	.482	-1.5	-0.8	-13	$	*3
1943	31	PHA	AL	146	594	-11	-1	0	2	-7	-17	-2.0	12	-5	-0.7	.486	.488	-1.0	-0.6	-7	$	*3	AS,MVP-33
1944	32	PHA	AL	132	535	22	1	0	0	-6	16	1.8	11	27	2.9	.514	.511	2.9	-0.7	27	$	3O79	MVP-29
1945	33	PHA	AL	147	633	1	-2	0	4	-7	-4	-0.5	13	10	0.9	.497	.497	0.4	-0.4	6	$	*3
11 Seasons				1035	4250	-15	-4	0	16	-47	-49	-5.3	101	51	4.9	.495	.497	3.2	-3.2	35	$9,500

PHA (8 yrs)				1004	4195	-12	-4	0	16	-47	-46	-4.9	99	53	5.2	.495	.496	3.5	-3.2	37	$9,500
STL (2 yrs)				23	44	-3	0	0	0	-0	-3	-0.3	1	-2	-0.2	.486	.499	-0.2	-0.0	-2	$
BRO (2 yrs)				8	11	-0	0	0	0	-0	-0	-0.1	0	-0	-0.1	.494	.500	-0.1	-0.0	-0	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1932	20	BRO	NL	9	5	1	5.4	102	.400	.286	.282	.444	.334	.286	.408	.730	.742	103	.562	0.2	0.0	.800	.286	.000

1936	24	BRO	NL	2	3	0	0.0	104	.000	.000	.287	.000	.346	.000	.402	.000	.748	-100	.000	-0.6	-0.1	.000	.000	.000
1937	25	STL	NL	43	31	2	1.7	102	.233	.184	.281	.279	.343	.237	.399	.516	.742	41	.147	-3.0	-0.3	.484	.184	.053	.0
1938	26	TOT	MLB	210	144	22	4.0	115	.301	.287	.285	.332	.363	.359	.425	.691	.788	76	.379	-7.5	-0.7	.577	.118	.072	.0
1938	26	STL	NL	1	0	1		103	1.000	1.000	.281	1.000	.345	1.000	.399	2.000	.744	440	.000	0.5	0.0		.000	.000
1938	26	PHA	AL	209	144	21	3.8	115	.297	.284	.285	.329	.363	.356	.425	.684	.788	74	.358	-8.0	-0.7	.570	.119	.072	.0
1939	27	PHA	AL	433	301	56	4.9	111	.299	.294	.283	.329	.357	.423	.418	.751	.775	93	.488	-5.0	-0.5	.667	.189	.129	4.8
1940	28	PHA	AL	636	450	73	4.3	108	.297	.286	.276	.325	.348	.383	.418	.709	.766	85	.436	-13.6	-1.3	.598	.156	.097	6.2
1941	29	PHA	AL	513	333	81	6.5	104	.343	.334	.272	.385	.348	.460	.401	.846	.749	126	.642	17.0	1.6	.773	.201	.126	1.7
1942	30	PHA	AL	642	469	58	3.3	94	.265	.260	.264	.291	.339	.333	.370	.624	.709	76	.402	-22.2	-2.3	.494	.111	.074	2.7
1943	31	PHA	AL	594	445	52	3.2	86	.259	.251	.255	.295	.329	.328	.352	.623	.681	83	.421	-13.9	-1.5	.489	.134	.077	1.7
1944	32	PHA	AL	535	335	77	6.2	89	.308	.306	.264	.387	.331	.423	.361	.810	.692	134	.688	22.8	2.4	.794	.254	.118	3.0
1945	33	PHA	AL	633	443	65	3.9	87	.274	.267	.259	.328	.331	.358	.352	.686	.683	101	.508	0.4	0.0	.579	.169	.091	3.1
11 Yrs				4250	2959	487	4.4	97	.290	.282	.268	.332	.341	.379	.383	.710	.724	96	.502	-25.4	-2.6	.608	.167	.097	31.0
162 Game Avg.				665	463	76	4.4	97	.290	.282	.268	.332	.341	.379	.383	.710	.724	96	.502	-25.4	-2.6	.608	.167	.097	5

PHA (8 yrs)				4195	2920	483	4.4	97	.290	.283	.268	.332	.341	.380	.383	.712	.723	97	.505	-22.5	-2.3	.609	.167	.098	30.4
STL (2 yrs)				44	31	3	2.6	102	.258	.205	.281	.295	.343	.256	.399	.552	.742	50	.265	-2.6	-0.3	.516	.179	.051	.0
BRO (2 yrs)				11	8	1	3.4	102	.286	.222	.283	.364	.337	.222	.407	.586	.743	63	.352	-0.4	-0.0	.500	.222	.000

AL (8 yrs)				4195	2920	483	4.4	97	.290	.283	.268	.332	.341	.380	.383	.712	.723	97	.505	-22.5	-2.3	.609	.167	.098	30.4
NL (4 yrs)				55	39	4	2.7	102	.263	.208	.282	.309	.342	.250	.400	.559	.742	53	.284	-2.9	-0.3	.513	.188	.042	.0

All-Star Batting

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1943	PHA	AL	31	as 1B	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	IP%
1932	20	BRO	NL	9	0.0%	22.2%	22.2%	0.0%	0%	1.00	3.5			56%

1936	24	BRO	NL	2	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%						100%
1937	25	STL	NL	43	0.0%	18.6%	9.3%	4.7%	29%	2.00	4.8		19.0	70%
1938	26	TOT	MLB	210	0.0%	4.3%	4.8%	5.2%	20%	0.90	21.7		7.0	89%
1938	26	STL	NL	1	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%					100%
1938	26	PHA	AL	209	0.0%	4.3%	4.8%	5.3%	20%	0.90	21.6		6.9	89%
1939	27	PHA	AL	433	1.4%	5.1%	4.9%	8.6%	31%	1.05	18.3	67.0	8.6	86%
1940	28	PHA	AL	636	0.8%	5.4%	5.2%	6.6%	25%	1.03	17.5	119.0	7.7	87%
1941	29	PHA	AL	513	1.0%	4.3%	7.2%	8.0%	26%	0.59	21.2	93.4	5.9	86%
1942	30	PHA	AL	642	0.3%	2.7%	3.7%	5.3%	21%	0.71	36.0	306.0	8.3	92%
1943	31	PHA	AL	594	0.2%	3.5%	5.6%	5.7%	24%	0.64	26.6	558.0	7.8	90%
1944	32	PHA	AL	535	1.1%	3.2%	11.6%	7.1%	27%	0.27	27.5	78.0	9.0	83%
1945	33	PHA	AL	633	1.1%	5.2%	7.9%	5.9%	24%	0.66	17.4	81.9	11.2	84%
11 Yrs				4250	0.8%	4.4%	6.5%	6.5%	25%	0.67	21.2	122.4	8.1	87%
MLB Averages					1.3%	8.7%	8.6%	6.5%	27%	1.02	10.3	67.6	8.1	79%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH
1932	20	6	9	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	2	.286	.444	.286	.730	103	2		0	0
1933	21	6	9	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	2	.286	.444	.286	.730	103	2		0	0
1934	22	6	9	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	2	.286	.444	.286	.730	103	2		0	0
1935	23	6	9	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	2	.286	.444	.286	.730	103	2		0	0
1936	24	8	11	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	2	.222	.364	.222	.586	63	2	1	0	0
1937	25	30	54	47	4	9	2	0	0	2	1		6	10	.191	.296	.234	.530	45	11	1	1	0
1938	26	79	264	242	28	65	10	3	0	30	3	3	16	19	.269	.324	.335	.659	70	81	1	4	2
1939	27	180	697	644	86	183	38	6	6	77	7	4	37	41	.284	.327	.390	.717	84	251	7	4	12
1940	28	334	1333	1239	155	353	69	12	11	154	15	10	70	75	.285	.326	.387	.713	85	479	19	6	19
1941	29	457	1846	1706	218	509	97	20	16	233	16	13	107	97	.298	.343	.407	.749	96	694	31	8	26
1942	30	610	2488	2318	275	668	122	27	18	307	20	18	131	114	.288	.329	.387	.717	91	898	39	11	29
1943	31	756	3082	2876	325	808	148	34	19	379	26	25	164	135	.281	.323	.376	.699	89	1081	58	13	30
1944	32	888	3617	3344	377	951	175	39	25	431	28	25	226	152	.284	.332	.382	.715	96	1279	63	13	35
1945	33	1035	4250	3917	439	1104	204	40	32	482	30	32	276	185	.282	.332	.379	.710	96	1484	71	15	43

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1932	20	6	9	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.286	.444	.286	.730	1	6

1936	24	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	2
1937	25	23	45	40	3	7	2	0	0	2	1	4	8	.175	.267	.225	.492	2	22
1938	26	52	217	202	22	55	8	3	0	26	2	10	10	.272	.316	.342	.658	21	49
1939	27	106	445	414	54	115	27	3	6	43	4	20	23	.278	.311	.401	.712	52	101
1940	28	161	655	613	67	169	31	6	5	74	8	33	36	.276	.315	.370	.685	71	154
1941	29	128	527	481	63	158	28	8	5	79	1	37	23	.328	.379	.451	.830	82	123
1942	30	162	684	652	63	172	27	8	2	81	4	26	18	.264	.295	.339	.634	65	153
1943	31	154	642	601	61	161	30	8	1	88	7	38	22	.268	.314	.349	.663	65	146
1944	32	138	573	499	60	159	30	6	7	60	2	69	18	.319	.401	.445	.846	89	132
1945	33	156	689	621	76	176	33	1	8	62	2	58	35	.283	.347	.378	.725	82	147
11 Yrs		1088	4488	4132	470	1174	216	43	34	515	31	297	195	.284	.334	.382	.716	530	1035
162 Game Avg.		162	668	615	70	175	32	6	5	77	5	44	29	.284	.334	.382	.716	79	1035

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1943 (1B)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1941 AL (17, 3%) 1943 AL (33, 0%) 1944 AL (29, 1%) 0.04 Career Shares (1177th)	Batting Average s c a p y 1941 AL .334 (5th) 1944 AL .306 (7th)	On-Base% s c a p y 1944 AL .387 (9th)
Games Played s c a p y 1940 AL 154 (6th) 1942 AL 153 (4th) 1945 AL 147 (9th)	At Bats s c a p y 1940 AL 595 (8th) 1942 AL 612 (8th) 1945 AL 573 (4th)	Plate Appearances s c a p y 1945 AL 633 (7th)	Hits s c a p y 1945 AL 153 (8th)
Doubles s c a p y 1945 AL 29 (7th)	Singles s c a p y 1940 AL 128 (8th) 1941 AL 115 (10th) 1942 AL 125 (8th) 1945 AL 116 (6th)	Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y 1944 AL 134 (10th)	Offensive Win % s c a p y 1944 AL .688 (8th)
Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 1943 AL 19 (5th)	Caught Stealing s c a p y 1945 AL 7 (9th)	AB per SO s c a p y 1940 AL 17.5 (10th) 1941 AL 21.2 (6th) 1942 AL 36.0 (3rd) 1943 AL 26.6 (3rd) 1944 AL 27.5 (3rd) 1945 AL 17.4 (9th) Career 21.2 (96th)	Outs Made s c a p y 1942 AL 469 (6th) 1945 AL 443 (5th)
Youngest s c a p y 1932 NL born 1912-02-19 (2nd)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Batting - 19 (1051), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 8 (1280), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 7 (1928), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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