Merl Combs
Boston Red Sox 1947; Boston Red Sox 1949–1950; Washington Senators 1950; Cleveland Indians 1951–1952
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 17 | 79 | 68 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .221 | .329 | .279 | .609 | 68.2 | 65.8 | .304 | 0.0 |
| 1949 | 14 | 34 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .424 | .250 | .674 | 96.2 | 75.5 | .366 | 0.1 |
| 1950 | 38 | 128 | 102 | 19 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .384 | .255 | .639 | 80.1 | 66.9 | .330 | 0.2 |
| 1951 | 19 | 31 | 28 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .233 | .250 | .483 | 30.2 | 35.2 | .232 | -0.1 |
| 1952 | 52 | 155 | 139 | 11 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 0 | 1 | .165 | .242 | .209 | .450 | 27.1 | 30.8 | .225 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-09-12 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1952-07-04 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1947-09-27 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1950-05-14 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1952-06-02 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-20 | BOS @ MIN 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.