MLB / Players

Bob Meusel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 19, 1896 · San Jose, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1920

Final gameSeptember 26, 1930

Seasons11 (1920–1930)

New York Yankees 1920–1929; Cincinnati Reds 1930

Percentile snapshot

1930 season — qualified batters

113

38.1

484

38.8

443

43.3

38.1

128

53.7

65.7

RBI

50.7

32.1

62.7

31.3

.289

29.1

OBP

.330

15.7

SLG

.460

45.5

OPS

.790

35.1

wRC+

90.4

27.6

OPS+

92.6

30.6

wOBA

.346

28.4

sWAR

0.7

26.9

of 135 qualified 1930 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.2

73.5

OPS+

120.2

79.6

sWAR

26.2

95.7

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
1920	119	494	460	75	151	40	7	11	83	20	72	4	4	.328	.359	.517	.876	125.0	129.1	.398	2.9
1921	149	646	598	104	190	40	16	24	136	34	88	17	6	.318	.356	.559	.915	125.1	130.3	.407	3.5
1922	121	527	473	61	151	26	11	16	84	40	58	13	8	.319	.376	.522	.898	129.4	131.4	.406	3.1
1923	132	503	460	59	144	29	10	9	91	31	52	13	15	.313	.359	.478	.837	116.4	119.9	.385	2.1
1924	143	630	579	93	188	40	11	12	120	32	43	26	14	.325	.365	.494	.859	117.2	121.1	.395	2.7
1925	156	696	624	101	181	34	12	33	138	54	55	13	14	.290	.348	.542	.889	119.3	125.9	.398	3.4
1926	108	474	413	73	130	22	3	12	81	37	32	16	17	.315	.373	.470	.842	119.9	121.8	.389	2.1
1927	135	584	516	75	174	47	9	8	103	45	58	24	10	.337	.393	.510	.902	134.8	137.5	.412	3.8
1928	131	577	518	77	154	45	5	11	113	39	56	6	9	.297	.349	.467	.816	114.2	116.9	.370	2.3
1929	100	413	391	46	102	15	3	10	57	17	42	1	5	.261	.292	.391	.683	75.1	79.3	.309	-0.4
1930	113	484	443	62	128	30	8	10	62	26	63	9	0	.289	.330	.460	.790	90.4	92.6	.346	0.7

Career totals

1,407

6,028

5,475

826

1,693

493rd-most career H

368

270th-most career 2B

186th-most career 3B

156

RBI

1,068

251st-most career RBI

375

619

142

.3092

126th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3558

SLG

.4966

137th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8524

188th-highest career OPS

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
1922-07-03	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	6	10
1921-05-07	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	4	10
1928-07-26	NYY @ DET Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	1	3	10
1922-07-21	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	1	6	9
1920-07-09	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	1	5	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-04-14	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-15	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-20	NYY @ BOS 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.