Buddy Myer

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 163 lb

BornMarch 16, 1904 · Ellisville, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1925

Final gameSeptember 24, 1941

Seasons17 (1925–1941)

Washington Senators 1925–1926; Boston Red Sox 1927; Washington Senators 1927; Boston Red Sox 1928; Washington Senators 1929–1941

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

127

32.2

534

41.3

437

23.1

60.3

147

33.1

73.6

41.3

RBI

59.5

90.9

50.4

77.7

.336

93.4

OBP

.454

97.5

SLG

.465

69.4

OPS

.918

85.1

wRC+

140.9

87.6

OPS+

137.0

81.8

wOBA

.429

88.4

sWAR

4.7

87.6

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.9

63.6

OPS+

108.1

58.5

sWAR

41.0

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
1925	4	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	23.0	29.2	.234	0.0
1926	132	499	434	66	132	18	6	1	62	45	19	10	11	.304	.370	.380	.750	99.9	98.7	.357	2.2
1927	148	601	520	66	146	23	11	2	54	56	18	12	6	.281	.355	.379	.734	92.0	90.7	.347	1.9
1928	147	619	536	78	168	26	6	1	44	53	28	30	16	.313	.379	.390	.769	105.2	103.0	.361	2.6
1929	141	639	563	80	169	29	10	3	82	63	33	18	7	.300	.373	.403	.776	101.9	100.2	.361	2.5
1930	138	617	541	97	164	18	8	2	61	58	31	14	11	.303	.373	.377	.750	94.9	91.9	.348	1.8
1931	139	662	591	114	173	33	11	4	56	58	42	11	14	.293	.360	.406	.766	103.3	102.9	.356	2.6
1932	143	661	577	120	161	38	16	5	52	69	33	12	7	.279	.360	.426	.786	106.6	106.4	.361	2.9
1933	131	601	530	95	160	29	15	4	61	60	29	6	8	.302	.374	.436	.810	116.1	116.3	.375	3.3
1934	139	636	524	103	160	33	8	3	57	102	32	6	6	.305	.419	.416	.835	124.5	119.8	.397	4.2
1935	151	720	616	115	215	36	11	5	100	96	40	7	6	.349	.440	.468	.907	141.4	137.9	.423	6.3
1936	51	201	156	31	42	5	2	0	15	42	11	7	2	.269	.427	.327	.754	105.5	92.8	.376	0.8
1937	125	519	430	54	126	16	10	1	65	78	41	2	6	.293	.407	.384	.791	110.6	104.5	.376	2.5
1938	127	534	437	79	147	22	8	6	71	93	32	9	5	.336	.454	.465	.918	140.9	137.0	.429	4.7
1939	83	300	258	33	78	10	3	1	32	40	18	4	1	.302	.396	.376	.772	103.8	99.0	.367	1.2
1940	71	245	210	28	61	14	4	0	29	34	10	6	3	.290	.389	.395	.785	113.9	110.0	.365	1.3
1941	53	125	107	14	27	3	1	0	9	18	10	2	0	.252	.360	.299	.659	82.0	76.0	.324	0.2

Career totals

1,923

312th-most career G

8,187

263rd-most career PA

7,038

303rd-most career AB

1,174

212th-most career R

2,131

225th-most career H

353

310th-most career 2B

130

82nd-most career 3B

RBI

850

464th-most career RBI

965

141st-most career BB

428

156

.3028

189th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3894

120th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4061

OPS

.7955

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	BB	TB
1928-07-01	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	1	0	9
1935-06-16	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	4	1	8
1934-05-27	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1931-06-29	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1935-05-07	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1925-06-02	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-06-03	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-06-04	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-06-05	CWS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-06-06	CWS @ MIN 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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.