MLB / Players

Maurice Van Robays

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 15, 1914 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1939

Final gameSeptember 22, 1946

Seasons6 (1939–1946)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1939–1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1946

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

129

46.8

504

39.6

457

41.7

50.4

129

46.8

48.9

55.4

42.4

RBI

74.1

50.4

36.7

.282

58.3

OBP

.343

42.4

SLG

.381

42.4

OPS

.723

42.4

wRC+

103.3

45.3

OPS+

103.5

wOBA

.341

43.2

sWAR

1.2

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.6

72.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1939	27	112	105	13	33	9	0	2	16	6	10	0	.314	.351	.457	.808	115.1	116.8	.367	0.5
1940	145	609	572	82	156	27	7	11	116	33	58	2	.273	.316	.402	.718	94.3	96.9	.328	0.8
1941	129	504	457	62	129	23	5	4	78	41	29	0	.282	.343	.381	.723	103.3	103.5	.341	1.2
1942	100	362	328	29	76	13	5	1	46	30	24	0	.232	.298	.311	.609	74.0	76.4	.295	-0.4
1943	69	261	236	32	68	17	7	1	35	18	19	0	.288	.344	.432	.776	119.3	119.9	.365	1.1
1946	59	162	146	14	31	5	3	1	12	11	15	0	.212	.272	.308	.580	54.3	61.9	.278	-0.6

Career totals

529

2,010

1,844

232

493

RBI

303

139

155

.2674

OBP

.3214

SLG

.3802

OPS

.7016

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
1940-09-08	PIT @ STL Gameday	6	2	4	1	0	1	4	8
1940-06-07	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	5	7
1943-08-17	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	2	6
1940-06-02	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	6
1940-08-28	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	4	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-18	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-24	PIT @ CHC 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.