Mel Roach
Milwaukee Braves 1953–1954; Milwaukee Braves 1957–1960; Chicago Cubs 1961; Milwaukee Braves 1961; Philadelphia Phillies 1962
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -119.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1957 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -16.4 | -5.9 | .151 | -0.1 |
| 1958 | 44 | 147 | 136 | 14 | 42 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .309 | .336 | .426 | .762 | 110.3 | 110.1 | .340 | 0.7 |
| 1959 | 19 | 33 | 31 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .097 | .152 | .097 | .248 | -32.2 | -28.8 | .128 | -0.4 |
| 1960 | 48 | 152 | 140 | 12 | 42 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 18 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .329 | .450 | .779 | 117.3 | 119.3 | .344 | 0.7 |
| 1961 | 36 | 84 | 75 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .147 | .217 | .213 | .430 | 15.1 | 16.7 | .205 | -0.7 |
| 1962 | 65 | 111 | 105 | 9 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .225 | .229 | .454 | 19.9 | 24.0 | .212 | -0.7 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960-08-13 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1958-08-02 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1958-04-19 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1958-08-01 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1960-08-23 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-07-05 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-07-11 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-07-12 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-07-12 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953-07-16 | ATL @ PIT 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.