Melvin Mora
New York Mets 1999; Baltimore Orioles 2000; New York Mets 2000; Baltimore Orioles 2001–2009; Colorado Rockies 2010; Arizona Diamondbacks 2011
Percentile snapshot
2008 season — qualified batters
of 148 qualified 2008 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 66 | 39 | 31 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | .161 | .278 | .161 | .439 | 25.8 | 17.9 | .228 | -0.4 |
| 2000 | 132 | 464 | 414 | 60 | 114 | 22 | 5 | 8 | 47 | 35 | 80 | 12 | 11 | .275 | .337 | .411 | .748 | 93.0 | 93.7 | .330 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 128 | 503 | 436 | 49 | 109 | 28 | 0 | 7 | 48 | 41 | 91 | 11 | 4 | .250 | .329 | .362 | .692 | 90.9 | 89.2 | .311 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | 149 | 652 | 557 | 86 | 130 | 30 | 4 | 19 | 64 | 70 | 108 | 16 | 10 | .233 | .338 | .404 | .742 | 106.0 | 103.1 | .332 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 96 | 413 | 344 | 68 | 109 | 17 | 1 | 15 | 48 | 49 | 71 | 6 | 3 | .317 | .418 | .503 | .921 | 148.4 | 143.1 | .407 | 3.6 |
| 2004 | 140 | 636 | 550 | 111 | 187 | 41 | 0 | 27 | 104 | 66 | 95 | 11 | 6 | .340 | .419 | .562 | .981 | 158.6 | 155.6 | .426 | 6.9 |
| 2005 | 149 | 664 | 593 | 86 | 168 | 30 | 1 | 27 | 88 | 50 | 112 | 7 | 4 | .283 | .348 | .474 | .821 | 119.2 | 117.2 | .358 | 4.1 |
| 2006 | 155 | 705 | 624 | 96 | 171 | 25 | 0 | 16 | 83 | 54 | 99 | 11 | 1 | .274 | .342 | .391 | .733 | 92.1 | 90.2 | .328 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 126 | 527 | 467 | 67 | 128 | 23 | 1 | 14 | 58 | 47 | 83 | 9 | 3 | .274 | .341 | .418 | .759 | 98.0 | 97.9 | .338 | 1.8 |
| 2008 | 135 | 570 | 513 | 77 | 146 | 29 | 2 | 23 | 104 | 37 | 70 | 3 | 7 | .285 | .342 | .483 | .826 | 113.9 | 114.6 | .360 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 125 | 496 | 450 | 44 | 117 | 20 | 0 | 8 | 48 | 34 | 60 | 3 | 3 | .260 | .321 | .358 | .679 | 77.2 | 77.1 | .305 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 113 | 354 | 316 | 39 | 90 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 45 | 31 | 53 | 2 | 1 | .285 | .358 | .421 | .779 | 101.0 | 98.1 | .351 | 1.1 |
| 2011 | 42 | 135 | 127 | 5 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .228 | .244 | .276 | .520 | 26.6 | 40.1 | .230 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-08-17 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| 2004-07-22 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 2008-07-22 | TOR @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2000-06-25 | PIT @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2008-08-15 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-07-28 | CLE @ BAL 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.