MLB / Players

Dutch Meyer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 181 lb

BornOctober 6, 1915 · Waco, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 23, 1937

Final gameSeptember 22, 1946

Seasons6 (1937–1946)

Chicago Cubs 1937; Detroit Tigers 1940–1942; Cleveland Indians 1945–1946

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

130

42.3

567

53.2

524

64.9

65.8

153

76.6

83.8

64.9

RBI

45.9

48.6

45.9

20.7

18.9

.292

71.2

OBP

.342

44.1

SLG

.418

69.4

OPS

.760

60.4

wRC+

122.3

68.5

OPS+

124.3

71.2

wOBA

.360

sWAR

3.6

80.2

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 455 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.2

74.6

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
1937	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1940	23	65	58	12	15	3	0	0	6	4	10	2	0	.259	.317	.310	.628	56.7	58.3	.294	-0.1
1941	46	161	153	12	29	9	1	1	14	8	13	1	1	.190	.230	.281	.511	18.7	29.6	.237	-1.1
1942	14	57	52	5	17	3	0	2	9	4	4	0	1	.327	.386	.500	.886	141.5	141.1	.411	0.5
1945	130	567	524	71	153	29	8	7	48	40	32	2	4	.292	.342	.418	.760	122.3	124.3	.360	3.6
1946	72	235	207	13	48	5	3	0	16	26	16	0	1	.232	.321	.285	.606	76.3	74.9	.297	0.2

Career totals

286

1,085

994

113

262

RBI

.2636

OBP

.3216

SLG

.3672

OPS

.6888

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	RBI	TB
1945-06-27	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	2	7
1941-09-11	DET @ NYY Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	2	6
1945-08-18	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	2	6
1945-08-09	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	6
1941-09-01	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	4	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-04-20	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-22	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-23	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-24	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-25	CHC @ STL 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.