MLB / Players

Marv Owen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 22, 1906 · Agnew, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1931

Final gameAugust 2, 1940

Seasons9 (1931–1940)

Detroit Tigers 1931; Detroit Tigers 1933–1937; Chicago White Sox 1938–1939; Boston Red Sox 1940

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

141

59.5

631

75.2

577

65.3

162

71.1

37.2

51.2

41.3

RBI

37.2

47.1

55.4

65.3

20.7

.281

41.3

OBP

.337

27.3

SLG

.373

OPS

.710

24.8

wRC+

76.3

8.3

OPS+

77.1

9.1

wOBA

.330

25.6

sWAR

0.3

13.2

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 461 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.0

11.3

OPS+

80.9

10.7

sWAR

4.7

78.5

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
1931	105	420	377	35	84	11	6	3	39	29	38	2	2	.223	.282	.308	.590	51.4	52.7	.278	-1.2
1933	138	613	550	77	144	24	9	2	65	44	56	2	2	.262	.321	.349	.670	76.7	77.1	.315	0.4
1934	154	637	565	79	179	34	9	8	96	59	37	3	3	.317	.385	.451	.837	116.8	117.1	.387	3.6
1935	134	544	483	52	127	24	5	2	71	43	37	1	4	.263	.326	.346	.672	77.3	77.5	.316	0.4
1936	154	655	583	72	172	20	4	9	105	53	41	9	6	.295	.361	.389	.750	86.6	85.7	.350	1.2
1937	107	441	396	48	114	22	5	1	45	41	24	3	4	.288	.358	.376	.734	85.4	84.5	.342	0.8
1938	141	631	577	84	162	23	6	6	55	45	31	6	4	.281	.337	.373	.710	76.3	77.1	.330	0.3
1939	58	218	194	22	46	9	0	0	15	16	15	4	5	.237	.302	.284	.585	52.0	51.0	.280	-0.5
1940	20	65	57	4	12	0	0	0	6	8	4	0	0	.211	.308	.211	.518	39.3	35.3	.260	-0.3

Career totals

1,011

4,224

3,782

473

1,040

167

RBI

497

338

283

.2750

OBP

.3388

SLG

.3670

OPS

.7058

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
1931-07-23	DET @ NYY Gameday	6	1	4	1	2	0	2	0	9
1936-05-10	CLE @ DET Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1933-06-02	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	0	2	1	8
1936-07-04	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1939-04-23	BAL @ CWS Gameday	6	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-04-14	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-15	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-16	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-18	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-19	DET @ CLE 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.