Mel Queen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 204 lb

BornMarch 4, 1918 · Maxwell, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1942

Final gameMay 1, 1952

Seasons8 (1942–1952)

New York Yankees 1942; New York Yankees 1944; New York Yankees 1946–1947; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947–1948; Pittsburgh Pirates 1950–1952

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified pitchers

67.3

9.6

3.8

69.2

SHO

11.5

149

90.4

71.2

13.5

123

76.9

13.5

168.3

11.5

ERA

4.44

13.5

WHIP

1.473

9.6

K/9

6.58

98.1

FIP

4.32

9.6

FIP-

103.5

13.5

ERA+

94.2

19.2

sWAR

0.8

7.7

of 53 qualified 1951 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-2.2

1.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1942	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1944	10	34	31	5	6	3	2	0	11	.194	.194	.290	.484	19.4	35.9	.221	1.0
1946	14	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	-45.3	-20.0	.133	-0.9
1947	19	28	27	1	2	0	1	0	6	.074	.074	.074	.148	-87.3	-61.2	.068	0.3
1948	25	19	17	0	1	0	0	0	2	.059	.059	.059	.118	-95.5	-68.5	.054	-1.5
1950	33	38	35	0	2	0	0	1	6	.057	.083	.057	.140	-87.3	-63.2	.071	-1.3
1951	39	54	47	4	5	0	1	1	8	.106	.125	.106	.231	-61.9	-38.8	.111	0.8
1952	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1942	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	3	0	0	5.7	0.00	1.588	0.00	5.20	148.1	—	0.3
1944	10	10	6	3	0	4	1	68	30	34	30	7	81.7	3.31	1.249	3.31	4.21	120.4	105.9	1.0
1946	14	3	1	1	0	1	0	40	22	21	26	2	30.3	6.53	2.011	7.71	3.67	104.9	53.6	-0.9
1947	19	12	3	7	0	2	0	79	40	55	36	10	80.7	4.46	1.661	4.02	5.40	130.8	93.2	0.3
1948	25	8	4	4	1	0	0	82	49	40	34	8	66.3	6.65	1.839	4.61	5.05	124.3	61.1	-1.5
1950	33	21	5	14	0	4	1	135	80	73	76	18	120.3	5.98	1.729	5.68	5.01	115.1	72.7	-1.3
1951	39	21	7	9	0	4	1	149	83	99	123	21	168.3	4.44	1.473	6.58	4.32	103.5	94.2	0.8
1952	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	8	11	4	3	2	3.3	29.70	3.600	8.10	12.02	305.2	13.3	-1.0

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

146

180

164

RBI

.1037

OBP

.1145

SLG

.1220

OPS

.2365

Pitching

G (P)

146

SHO

557

SO (P)

328

BB allowed

329

ERA

5.093

WHIP

1.6096

K/9

5.30

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	RBI	TB
1944-09-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	2	2	5
1944-09-20	NYY @ DET Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	2
1947-08-05	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1
1951-05-13	CHC @ PIT Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	1
1944-08-13	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-08-13	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	11	0
1951-08-17	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	3	3	3	7	9	0
1951-04-23	PIT @ CHC Gameday	8.2	5	2	2	3	9	1
1951-08-10	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	8	0
1951-09-05	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3.2	0	0	0	5	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.