Dale Mitchell
Cleveland Indians 1946–1955; Brooklyn Dodgers 1956; Cleveland Indians 1956
Percentile snapshot
1953 season — qualified batters
of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 480 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 11 | 45 | 44 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .432 | .444 | .500 | .944 | 175.6 | 171.0 | .437 | 0.6 |
| 1947 | 123 | 518 | 493 | 69 | 156 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 34 | 23 | 14 | 2 | 5 | .316 | .347 | .396 | .742 | 109.4 | 112.5 | .347 | 2.0 |
| 1948 | 141 | 656 | 608 | 82 | 204 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 56 | 45 | 17 | 13 | 18 | .336 | .383 | .431 | .814 | 120.2 | 121.5 | .383 | 3.1 |
| 1949 | 149 | 685 | 640 | 81 | 203 | 16 | 23 | 3 | 56 | 43 | 11 | 10 | 3 | .317 | .360 | .428 | .788 | 109.1 | 112.8 | .370 | 2.3 |
| 1950 | 130 | 577 | 506 | 81 | 156 | 27 | 5 | 3 | 49 | 67 | 21 | 3 | 7 | .308 | .390 | .399 | .789 | 110.1 | 108.0 | .373 | 2.0 |
| 1951 | 134 | 570 | 510 | 83 | 148 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 62 | 53 | 16 | 7 | 7 | .290 | .358 | .424 | .782 | 116.5 | 118.1 | .364 | 2.4 |
| 1952 | 134 | 571 | 511 | 61 | 165 | 26 | 3 | 5 | 58 | 52 | 9 | 6 | 6 | .323 | .387 | .415 | .801 | 132.7 | 131.3 | .377 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 134 | 542 | 500 | 76 | 150 | 26 | 4 | 13 | 60 | 42 | 20 | 3 | 1 | .300 | .354 | .446 | .800 | 118.4 | 120.0 | .366 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 53 | 69 | 60 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .377 | .350 | .727 | 107.9 | 102.0 | .350 | 0.3 |
| 1955 | 61 | 63 | 58 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .302 | .328 | .629 | 56.5 | 69.7 | .281 | -0.2 |
| 1956 | 57 | 61 | 54 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .204 | .295 | .222 | .517 | 36.3 | 36.2 | .250 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-08-18 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 1951-05-07 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1950-04-18 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1953-09-20 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1949-08-04 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-04-16 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-17 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-20 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-21 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-24 | CLE @ BAL 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.