MLB / Players

Mel Hall

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 16, 1960 · Lyons, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1981

Final gameMay 21, 1996

Seasons13 (1981–1996)

Chicago Cubs 1981–1984; Cleveland Indians 1984–1988; New York Yankees 1989–1992; San Francisco Giants 1996

Percentile snapshot

1992 season — qualified batters

152

60.3

622

583

70.2

35.5

163

67.8

83.5

54.5

RBI

71.1

7.4

80.2

27.3

.280

OBP

.310

15.7

SLG

.429

59.5

OPS

.739

44.6

wRC+

102.7

33.9

OPS+

106.6

41.3

wOBA

.331

32.2

sWAR

1.5

23.1

of 122 qualified 1992 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.0

45.3

OPS+

106.0

54.4

sWAR

10.5

87.4

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
1981	10	12	11	1	1	0	0	1	2	1	4	0	0	.091	.167	.364	.530	34.5	44.2	.242	-0.1
1982	24	88	80	6	21	3	2	0	4	5	17	0	1	.263	.318	.350	.668	83.6	84.9	.309	0.2
1983	112	458	410	60	116	23	5	17	56	42	101	6	6	.283	.352	.488	.840	127.7	126.6	.378	3.3
1984	131	463	407	68	108	24	4	11	52	47	78	3	2	.265	.339	.425	.764	105.7	107.8	.341	1.2
1985	23	75	66	7	21	6	0	0	12	8	12	0	1	.318	.387	.409	.796	123.7	119.1	.362	0.3
1986	140	480	442	68	131	29	2	18	77	33	65	6	2	.296	.346	.493	.839	122.8	126.2	.363	2.2
1987	142	508	485	57	136	21	1	18	76	20	68	5	4	.280	.309	.439	.748	90.6	94.7	.321	0.4
1988	150	553	515	69	144	32	4	6	71	28	50	7	3	.280	.312	.392	.704	86.4	94.0	.309	0.2
1989	113	391	361	54	94	9	0	17	58	21	37	0	0	.260	.295	.427	.721	95.9	102.1	.319	0.3
1990	113	371	360	41	93	23	2	12	46	6	46	0	0	.258	.272	.433	.706	87.7	93.8	.311	-0.2
1991	141	527	492	67	140	23	2	19	80	26	40	0	1	.285	.321	.455	.776	108.0	112.0	.342	1.5
1992	152	622	583	67	163	36	3	15	81	29	53	4	2	.280	.310	.429	.739	102.7	106.6	.331	1.5
1996	25	27	25	3	3	0	0	0	5	1	4	0	0	.120	.148	.120	.268	-34.3	-27.0	.128	-0.4

Career totals

1,276

4,575

4,237

568

1,171

229

134

RBI

620

267

575

.2764

OBP

.3181

SLG

.4371

OPS

.7552

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
1983-09-10	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	4	0	11
1987-09-11	MIN @ CLE Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	3	0	10
1989-09-29	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	3	0	10
1991-07-24	SEA @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	4	1	9
1983-07-11	CHC @ SD Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9

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.