MLB / Players

Mel Harder

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 15, 1909 · Beemer, NE, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1928

Final gameSeptember 7, 1947

Seasons20 (1928–1947)

Cleveland Indians 1928–1947

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified pitchers

37.9

63.2

56.8

43.2

57.9

SHO

56.8

211

33.7

23.2

30.5

47.4

58.9

196.3

53.7

ERA

3.71

29.5

WHIP

1.426

21.1

K/9

2.93

33.7

FIP

3.33

FIP-

100.4

32.6

ERA+

89.3

15.8

sWAR

1.0

24.2

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.3

sWAR

47.4

98.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	23	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.4	-100.0	.000	-1.0
1929	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1930	36	67	63	8	9	2	1	0	4	2	28	1	.143	.169	.206	.376	-12.7	-7.0	.172	2.4
1931	40	81	75	7	19	2	1	0	10	2	24	0	.253	.273	.307	.579	42.7	48.0	.268	2.6
1932	39	101	94	11	17	7	1	0	13	5	25	0	.181	.222	.277	.499	20.0	25.8	.230	4.9
1933	44	88	84	2	16	3	0	1	5	2	26	0	.190	.209	.262	.471	14.9	22.6	.217	6.3
1934	44	99	87	9	14	6	0	0	5	3	24	0	.161	.189	.230	.419	0.1	7.7	.195	7.4
1935	42	111	102	11	21	1	0	2	10	2	29	0	.206	.221	.275	.496	17.3	27.0	.227	6.3
1936	36	87	80	3	11	4	0	0	3	0	19	0	.138	.148	.188	.336	-26.3	-17.6	.153	1.6
1937	38	98	86	5	15	4	0	0	10	5	33	0	.174	.220	.221	.441	5.5	11.5	.209	3.0
1938	39	94	88	3	10	2	0	0	6	4	31	0	.114	.152	.136	.289	-31.5	-26.1	.142	3.9
1939	29	83	72	8	10	0	1	1	9	3	17	0	.139	.195	.208	.403	4.4	5.9	.193	3.8
1940	31	71	62	4	11	1	0	0	4	4	17	1	.177	.227	.194	.421	11.1	13.3	.203	2.0
1941	15	25	25	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.080	.080	.080	.160	-72.5	-56.4	.074	-0.5
1942	29	72	67	3	8	0	0	0	2	2	19	0	.119	.145	.119	.264	-34.5	-23.1	.131	1.7
1943	19	53	47	2	10	1	1	0	4	2	11	0	.213	.245	.277	.521	47.3	56.5	.250	1.6
1944	30	76	74	9	16	3	0	0	6	0	19	0	.216	.216	.257	.473	24.0	37.2	.220	1.0
1945	11	28	25	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	9	0	.080	.080	.120	.200	-68.1	-41.2	.092	0.1
1946	13	36	35	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	14	0	.086	.111	.086	.197	-64.5	-42.9	.099	0.5
1947	15	35	28	2	5	1	0	0	1	2	10	0	.179	.233	.214	.448	21.6	28.8	.220	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1928	23	1	0	2	1	0	0	64	36	32	15	4	49.0	6.61	1.959	2.76	5.44	133.1	61.8	-1.0
1929	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	24	11	5	4	2	17.7	5.60	1.642	2.04	5.39	122.6	78.5	-0.1
1930	36	19	11	10	2	7	0	205	82	68	44	9	175.3	4.21	1.557	2.26	4.85	100.6	114.5	2.4
1931	40	24	13	14	1	9	0	229	94	72	63	8	194.0	4.36	1.552	2.92	4.35	94.0	106.0	2.6
1932	39	32	15	13	0	17	1	277	106	68	90	9	254.7	3.75	1.355	3.18	3.72	79.5	124.7	4.9
1933	43	31	15	17	4	14	2	254	83	67	81	10	253.0	2.95	1.269	2.88	3.73	85.2	148.5	6.3
1934	44	29	20	12	4	17	6	246	74	81	91	6	255.3	2.61	1.281	3.21	3.78	84.3	171.9	7.4
1935	42	35	22	11	2	17	4	313	105	53	95	6	287.3	3.29	1.274	2.98	3.25	72.5	136.5	6.3
1936	36	30	15	15	1	13	0	294	129	71	84	13	224.7	5.17	1.625	3.36	4.52	89.8	97.4	1.6
1937	38	30	15	12	2	13	0	269	111	86	95	9	233.7	4.28	1.519	3.66	3.97	86.1	107.8	3.0
1938	38	29	17	10	4	15	2	257	102	62	102	16	240.0	3.83	1.329	3.83	3.97	85.3	121.6	3.9
1939	29	26	15	9	1	12	1	213	81	64	67	15	208.0	3.50	1.332	2.90	4.40	100.4	124.9	3.8
1940	31	25	12	11	0	5	0	200	84	59	76	16	186.3	4.06	1.390	3.67	4.25	102.5	102.4	2.0
1941	15	10	5	4	1	1	0	76	40	37	21	8	68.7	5.24	1.646	2.75	5.37	137.0	74.8	-0.5
1942	29	29	13	14	0	13	4	179	76	82	74	8	198.7	3.44	1.314	3.35	3.61	104.6	100.3	1.7
1943	19	18	8	7	0	6	1	126	46	61	40	7	135.3	3.06	1.382	2.66	3.80	121.6	102.3	1.6
1944	30	27	12	10	0	12	2	211	81	69	64	5	196.3	3.71	1.426	2.93	3.33	100.4	89.3	1.0
1945	11	11	3	7	0	2	0	93	31	23	16	3	76.0	3.67	1.526	1.89	3.44	106.2	88.3	0.1
1946	13	12	5	4	0	4	1	85	35	31	21	4	92.3	3.41	1.256	2.05	3.56	107.6	97.1	0.5
1947	15	15	6	4	0	4	1	91	40	27	17	3	80.0	4.50	1.475	1.91	3.54	101.5	77.5	-0.2

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

584

1,314

1,203

199

RBI

369

.1654

OBP

.1936

SLG

.2153

OPS

.4089

Pitching

G (P)

582

271st-most career G (P)

433

99th-most career GS

223

74th-most career W

186

59th-most career L

181

170th-most career CG

SHO

175th-most career SHO

3,426

83rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,160

424th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,118

72nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.801

WHIP

1.4079

K/9

3.05

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
1935-07-31	CLE @ CWS Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1933-05-11	BOS @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	6
1931-08-28	BAL @ CLE Gameday	5	0	3	0	1	0	2	0	5
1931-08-20	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	4
1943-09-28	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	3	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-09-10	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	9	4	1	3	8	0
1933-06-23	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	8	8	8	3	8	2
1934-07-22	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	7	8	0
1942-09-20	CLE @ DET Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	6	8	0
1933-08-13	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	12	3	2	2	7	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.

Honors

4× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.