Bill Dickey

1928–1946 · 17 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1907

  • Hall of Fame 1954

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
1928New York YankeesAL101515131102020.200.200.400.6000.0
1929New York YankeesAL13047344760145306106514165.324.346.485.8323.4
1930New York YankeesAL1093963665512425756521147.339.375.486.8612.7
1931New York YankeesAL13052347765156171067839202.327.378.442.8204.4
1932New York YankeesAL10845942366131204158434132.310.361.482.8433.7
1933New York YankeesAL13053247858152248149747143.318.381.490.8716.0
1934New York YankeesAL10443839556127244127238180.322.384.494.8784.1
1935New York YankeesAL12049144854125266148135111.279.339.458.7973.1
1936New York YankeesAL112472423991532682210746160.362.428.6171.0456.4
1937New York YankeesAL140608530871763522913373223.332.417.570.9877.4
1938New York YankeesAL132532454841422742711575223.313.412.568.9816.8
1939New York YankeesAL128565480981452332410577375.302.403.513.9156.1
1940New York YankeesAL106424372459211195448320.247.336.355.6911.7
1941New York YankeesAL109397348359915577145172.284.371.417.7883.1
1942New York YankeesAL82295268287913123726112.295.359.373.7322.3
1943New York YankeesAL85284242298518243341122.351.445.492.9374.4
1946New York YankeesAL5415613410358021019120.261.357.366.7231.2
Career17 seasons178970606300930196934372202120967828937.313.382.486.86867.0

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.