MLB / Players

Mel Queen

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 189 lb

BornMarch 26, 1942 · Johnson City, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1964

Final gameJuly 21, 1972

Seasons9 (1964–1972)

Cincinnati Reds 1964–1969; California Angels 1970–1972

Percentile snapshot

1967 season — qualified pitchers

13.4

4.5

56.7

82.1

11.9

SHO

28.4

155

89.6

80.6

74.6

154

52.2

43.3

195.7

26.9

ERA

2.76

68.7

WHIP

1.058

K/9

7.08

70.1

FIP

3.10

49.3

FIP-

83.3

74.6

ERA+

134.9

89.6

sWAR

4.7

86.6

of 68 qualified 1967 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.7

78.7

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1964	48	99	95	7	19	2	2	12	4	19	0	1	.200	.232	.284	.517	38.6	43.2	.237	-0.5
1965	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1966	56	69	55	4	7	1	0	5	10	12	0	0	.127	.250	.145	.395	6.3	9.9	.200	-0.9
1967	49	89	81	6	17	4	0	5	4	10	2	0	.210	.244	.259	.503	30.7	37.7	.238	4.7
1968	10	9	8	2	1	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	1.0	4.0	.188	-0.5
1969	2	6	6	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-24.7	-7.9	.155	0.3
1970	37	16	16	1	4	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	33.5	41.3	.231	0.2
1971	45	11	8	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.100	.000	.100	-74.2	-68.3	.075	1.8
1972	17	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	56.3	8.5	.252	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1966	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	11	5	6	9	0	7.0	6.43	2.429	11.57	2.67	69.0	60.2	-0.9
1967	31	24	14	8	0	6	2	155	60	52	154	17	195.7	2.76	1.058	7.08	3.10	83.3	134.9	4.7
1968	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	25	12	6	20	7	18.3	5.89	1.691	9.82	6.31	200.2	53.5	-0.5
1969	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	7	3	3	7	2	12.0	2.25	.833	5.25	4.66	124.4	166.4	0.3
1970	34	3	3	6	9	0	0	58	28	28	44	5	60.0	4.20	1.433	6.60	3.70	103.0	85.4	0.2
1971	44	0	2	2	4	0	0	49	13	29	53	3	65.7	1.78	1.188	7.26	3.03	94.1	180.7	1.8
1972	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	31	15	19	19	2	31.0	4.35	1.613	5.52	4.01	137.5	67.0	-0.3

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

269

305

274

RBI

.1788

OBP

.2333

SLG

.2263

OPS

.4596

Pitching

G (P)

140

SHO

390

SO (P)

306

BB allowed

143

ERA

3.141

WHIP

1.2293

K/9

7.07

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	TB
1964-08-01	CIN @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	3	4
1964-07-14	HOU @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	4
1964-08-10	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	3
1967-06-10	HOU @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1967-09-13	PIT @ CIN Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-09-01	SF @ CIN Gameday	9.1	8	0	0	1	10	0
1967-09-08	CIN @ NYM Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	10	0
1967-07-26	CIN @ ATL Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	1	10	0
1967-05-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	3	1	0	9	0
1968-09-10	HOU @ CIN Gameday	7.1	6	3	3	2	9	3

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.