MLB / Players

Merrill May

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornJanuary 18, 1911 · Laconia, IN, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1939

Final gameOctober 3, 1943

Seasons5 (1939–1943)

Philadelphia Phillies 1939–1942; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

142

66.9

555

53.2

490

52.5

33.8

131

48.9

37.4

41.7

RBI

64.7

48.2

21.6

36.7

.267

OBP

.344

44.6

SLG

.318

13.7

OPS

.662

25.2

wRC+

90.5

30.2

OPS+

88.0

28.8

wOBA

.321

28.1

sWAR

1.4

47.5

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.9

85.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1939	135	531	464	49	133	27	3	2	62	41	20	4	.287	.346	.371	.717	92.4	92.2	.335	1.4
1940	136	571	501	59	147	24	2	1	48	58	33	2	.293	.371	.355	.727	106.0	102.0	.344	2.5
1941	142	555	490	46	131	17	4	0	39	55	30	2	.267	.344	.318	.662	90.5	88.0	.321	1.4
1942	115	408	345	25	82	15	0	0	18	51	17	3	.238	.338	.281	.619	88.9	83.9	.310	1.0
1943	137	481	415	31	117	19	2	1	48	56	21	2	.282	.369	.345	.713	113.2	108.5	.349	2.6

Career totals

665

2,546

2,215

210

610

102

RBI

215

261

121

.2754

OBP

.3541

SLG

.3368

OPS

.6909

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	TB
1940-05-20	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	2	7
1939-06-05	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	0	2	6
1939-08-13	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	6
1939-07-15	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	0	4	1	0	0	3	5
1939-07-21	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-20	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	LAD @ PHI 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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.