Mel Almada
Boston Red Sox 1933–1937; Washington Senators 1937; St. Louis Browns 1938; Washington Senators 1938; Brooklyn Dodgers 1939; St. Louis Browns 1939
Percentile snapshot
1938 season — qualified batters
of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 483 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 14 | 56 | 44 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 1 | .341 | .473 | .409 | .882 | 142.8 | 133.3 | .425 | 0.5 |
| 1934 | 23 | 98 | 90 | 7 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | .233 | .281 | .278 | .559 | 39.1 | 42.0 | .267 | -0.4 |
| 1935 | 151 | 676 | 607 | 85 | 176 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 59 | 55 | 34 | 20 | 9 | .290 | .350 | .379 | .729 | 83.9 | 84.4 | .341 | 0.8 |
| 1936 | 96 | 347 | 320 | 40 | 81 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 24 | 15 | 2 | 4 | .253 | .305 | .338 | .643 | 54.0 | 55.8 | .300 | -1.3 |
| 1937 | 132 | 604 | 543 | 91 | 160 | 27 | 6 | 5 | 42 | 53 | 27 | 12 | 5 | .295 | .357 | .394 | .751 | 92.0 | 91.8 | .348 | 1.3 |
| 1938 | 149 | 689 | 633 | 101 | 197 | 29 | 6 | 4 | 52 | 46 | 38 | 13 | 6 | .311 | .362 | .395 | .757 | 88.8 | 88.9 | .351 | 1.4 |
| 1939 | 81 | 267 | 246 | 28 | 56 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 19 | 25 | 3 | 0 | .228 | .283 | .272 | .555 | 41.0 | 43.6 | .265 | -1.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-07-25 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1938-08-11 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1937-08-18 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1939-04-26 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1937-06-23 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-04-13 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-04-14 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-04-15 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-04-17 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933-04-18 | BOS @ MIN 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.