MLB / Players

Mel Ott

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornMarch 2, 1909 · Gretna, LA, USA

MLB debutApril 27, 1926

Final gameJuly 11, 1947

Seasons22 (1926–1947)

New York Giants 1926–1947

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

135

56.8

532

44.1

451

40.5

72.1

139

60.4

58.6

95.5

RBI

82.9

9.9

35.1

.308

OBP

.411

91.9

SLG

.499

91.9

OPS

.910

93.7

wRC+

150.7

94.6

OPS+

148.9

93.7

wOBA

.425

93.7

sWAR

4.4

89.2

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

157.8

OPS+

156.4

98.6

sWAR

107.6

99.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1926	35	61	60	7	23	2	0	0	4	1	9	1	.383	.393	.417	.810	119.8	119.9	.376	0.3
1927	82	180	163	23	46	7	3	1	19	13	9	2	.282	.335	.380	.716	91.5	92.1	.334	0.4
1928	124	499	435	69	140	26	4	18	77	52	36	3	.322	.397	.524	.921	139.7	139.6	.416	3.6
1929	150	674	545	138	179	37	2	42	151	113	38	6	.328	.449	.635	1.084	164.1	167.7	.473	7.0
1930	148	646	521	122	182	34	5	25	119	103	35	9	.349	.458	.578	1.036	151.8	152.4	.455	5.7
1931	138	580	497	104	145	23	8	29	115	80	44	10	.292	.392	.545	.937	153.1	153.1	.420	5.6
1932	154	673	566	119	180	30	8	38	123	100	39	6	.318	.424	.601	1.025	176.0	176.0	.447	7.8
1933	152	661	580	98	164	36	1	23	103	75	48	1	.283	.367	.467	.834	142.7	140.4	.383	5.0
1934	153	671	582	119	190	29	10	35	135	85	43	0	.326	.415	.591	1.006	170.4	172.1	.444	7.5
1935	152	683	593	113	191	33	6	31	114	82	58	7	.322	.407	.555	.962	159.4	160.6	.428	6.7
1936	150	660	534	120	175	28	6	33	135	111	41	6	.328	.448	.588	1.036	180.1	180.7	.465	7.9
1937	151	654	545	99	160	28	2	31	95	102	69	7	.294	.408	.523	.931	153.3	152.0	.422	6.2
1938	150	652	527	116	164	23	6	36	116	118	47	2	.311	.442	.583	1.024	182.2	180.0	.460	8.7
1939	125	508	396	85	122	23	2	27	80	100	50	2	.308	.449	.581	1.030	177.3	174.2	.463	6.0
1940	151	647	536	89	155	27	3	19	79	100	50	6	.289	.407	.457	.864	141.9	136.7	.400	4.9
1941	148	634	525	89	150	29	0	27	90	100	68	5	.286	.403	.495	.898	152.7	149.7	.417	5.4
1942	152	664	549	118	162	21	0	30	93	109	61	6	.295	.415	.497	.912	171.5	166.3	.428	7.0
1943	125	482	380	65	89	12	2	18	47	95	48	7	.234	.391	.418	.810	139.6	131.2	.392	3.2
1944	120	494	399	91	115	16	4	26	82	90	47	2	.288	.423	.544	.967	171.8	168.8	.443	5.4
1945	135	532	451	73	139	23	0	21	79	71	41	1	.308	.411	.499	.910	150.7	148.9	.425	4.4
1946	31	78	68	2	5	1	0	1	4	8	15	0	.074	.171	.132	.303	-26.2	-14.0	.163	-1.0
1947	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

2,730

31st-most career G

11,337

30th-most career PA

9,456

48th-most career AB

1,859

15th-most career R

2,876

45th-most career H

488

75th-most career 2B

362nd-most career 3B

511

25th-most career HR

RBI

1,860

14th-most career RBI

1,708

9th-most career BB

896

.3041

170th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4140

32nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5331

49th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9471

29th-highest career OPS

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
1930-08-31	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	1	3	6	0	14
1929-06-19	SF @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	2	2	6	1	12
1932-09-20	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	6	0	11
1934-08-04	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	6	4	1	2	4	1	11
1934-06-09	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-04-13	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-14	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-17	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-18	ATL @ SF 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1951 (BBWAA)

12× 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.