Lefty Mellix
Newark Dodgers 1934; Homestead Grays 1935; Homestead Grays 1943
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 434.6 | 461.5 | .943 | -0.1 |
| 1935 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 70.7 | 68.8 | .306 | -0.2 |
| 1943 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.3 | 11.57 | 2.571 | 3.86 | 5.78 | 128.2 | 39.0 | -0.1 |
| 1935 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 9.0 | 9.00 | 2.000 | 5.00 | 4.94 | 96.9 | 56.7 | -0.2 |
| 1943 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 54.00 | 9.000 | 0.00 | 7.13 | 148.2 | 8.9 | -0.5 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-06-03 | ND @ TIC Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1935-07-14 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1934-05-12 | ND @ PHS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-05-13 | PHS @ ND Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-05-13 | PHS @ ND Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-07-14 | HOM @ PHS Gameday | 5.2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1935-07-28 | NYC @ HOM Gameday | 2.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1934-06-03 | ND @ TIC Gameday | 2.1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 1943-07-10 | CLB @ HOM Gameday | 1.0 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-07-21 | HOM @ NYC Gameday | 0.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 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.