MLB / Players

Don Mueller

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornApril 14, 1927 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutAugust 2, 1948

Final gameMay 2, 1959

Seasons12 (1948–1959)

New York Giants 1948–1957; Chicago White Sox 1958–1959

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified batters

147

56.8

639

69.1

605

91.4

32.1

185

87.7

45.7

39.5

19.8

RBI

72.8

1.2

100

8.6

60.5

.306

OBP

.326

23.5

SLG

.393

28.4

OPS

.720

25.9

wRC+

89.5

25.9

OPS+

91.6

28.4

wOBA

.319

12.3

sWAR

0.5

8.6

of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

86.8

18.6

OPS+

89.7

22.5

sWAR

2.0

70.1

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
1948	36	82	81	12	29	4	1	1	9	0	3	0	0	.358	.358	.469	.827	118.6	121.1	.373	0.4
1949	51	61	56	5	13	4	0	0	1	5	6	0	0	.232	.295	.304	.599	59.1	61.2	.282	-0.1
1950	132	539	525	60	153	15	6	7	84	10	26	1	0	.291	.309	.383	.691	76.1	81.2	.309	-0.5
1951	122	493	469	58	130	10	7	16	69	19	13	1	1	.277	.307	.431	.737	92.0	96.6	.329	0.5
1952	126	496	456	61	128	14	7	12	49	34	24	2	1	.281	.333	.421	.754	106.3	107.8	.344	1.4
1953	131	502	480	56	160	12	2	6	60	19	13	2	0	.333	.360	.404	.764	97.7	98.5	.343	0.9
1954	153	658	619	90	212	35	8	4	71	22	17	2	3	.342	.363	.444	.807	109.7	110.6	.358	2.1
1955	147	639	605	67	185	21	4	8	83	19	12	1	2	.306	.326	.393	.720	89.5	91.6	.319	0.5
1956	138	474	453	38	122	12	1	5	41	15	7	0	1	.269	.290	.333	.624	64.6	68.2	.279	-1.1
1957	135	466	450	45	116	7	1	6	37	13	16	2	0	.258	.280	.318	.597	55.3	60.7	.267	-1.6
1958	70	180	166	7	42	5	0	0	16	11	9	0	0	.253	.298	.283	.581	57.6	64.1	.265	-0.6
1959	4	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	187.8	180.0	.458	0.1

Career totals

1,245

4,594

4,364

499

1,292

139

RBI

520

167

146

.2961

290th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3225

SLG

.3896

OPS

.7121

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
1951-09-01	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	5	12
1954-07-11	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	1	4	10
1957-08-25	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	2	3	10
1954-05-02	SF @ STL Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	0	2	8
1952-04-21	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1948-04-20	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-21	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-22	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-23	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-24	SF @ ATL 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.