Irish Meusel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 178 lb

BornJune 9, 1893 · Oakland, CA, USA

MLB debutOctober 1, 1914

Final gameJuly 22, 1927

Seasons11 (1914–1927)

Washington Senators 1914; Philadelphia Phillies 1918–1920; New York Giants 1921; Philadelphia Phillies 1921; New York Giants 1922–1926; Brooklyn Robins 1927

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified batters

129

55.7

483

48.1

449

53.8

36.1

131

55.7

64.6

77.8

63.3

RBI

68.4

10.8

26.6

47.5

.292

OBP

.322

15.8

SLG

.432

57.6

OPS

.754

39.2

wRC+

99.4

37.3

OPS+

103.1

46.2

wOBA

.344

32.3

sWAR

1.0

30.4

of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 468 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.5

OPS+

117.8

sWAR

22.4

94.5

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
1914	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1918	124	511	473	48	132	25	6	4	62	30	21	18	0	.279	.323	.383	.706	105.9	107.2	.338	1.7
1919	135	549	521	65	159	26	7	5	59	15	13	24	0	.305	.327	.411	.738	109.9	111.6	.345	1.9
1920	138	563	518	75	160	27	8	14	69	32	27	17	11	.309	.349	.473	.822	126.5	126.2	.379	2.9
1921	146	629	586	96	201	33	13	14	87	33	29	13	13	.343	.380	.515	.895	129.6	128.8	.402	3.7
1922	154	676	617	100	204	28	17	16	132	35	33	12	10	.331	.369	.509	.877	122.6	125.3	.395	3.4
1923	146	649	595	102	177	22	14	19	125	38	16	8	8	.297	.341	.477	.818	113.5	116.8	.369	2.5
1924	139	603	549	75	170	26	9	6	102	33	18	11	7	.310	.351	.423	.774	106.4	107.0	.354	1.8
1925	135	557	516	82	169	35	8	21	111	26	19	5	4	.328	.363	.548	.912	131.1	134.7	.401	3.4
1926	129	483	449	51	131	25	10	6	65	16	18	5	0	.292	.322	.432	.754	99.4	103.1	.344	1.0
1927	42	87	74	7	18	3	1	1	7	11	5	0	0	.243	.341	.351	.693	89.8	86.5	.331	0.1

Career totals

1,289

5,309

4,900

701

1,521

250

200th-most career 3B

106

RBI

819

497th-most career RBI

269

199

113

.3104

116th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3484

SLG

.4643

339th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8127

410th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1922-05-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	6	1	10
1922-08-18	SF @ CHC Gameday	6	3	5	1	1	5	0	9
1918-08-31	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	2	0	9
1925-07-01	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	2	1	9
1925-09-02	SF @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	1	1	9	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1914-04-14	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-15	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-17	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-18	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-21	MIN @ NYY 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.