Merritt Ranew
Houston Colt .45's 1962; Chicago Cubs 1963–1964; Milwaukee Braves 1964; California Angels 1965; Seattle Pilots 1969
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 71 | 239 | 218 | 26 | 51 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 24 | 14 | 43 | 2 | 2 | .234 | .287 | .390 | .677 | 78.0 | 85.3 | .296 | 0.6 |
| 1963 | 78 | 166 | 154 | 18 | 52 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 32 | 1 | 0 | .338 | .380 | .461 | .841 | 141.1 | 135.4 | .379 | 1.7 |
| 1964 | 25 | 53 | 50 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .100 | .151 | .100 | .251 | -37.9 | -28.6 | .128 | -0.6 |
| 1965 | 41 | 102 | 91 | 12 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .260 | .286 | .546 | 57.2 | 59.3 | .254 | 0.0 |
| 1969 | 54 | 92 | 81 | 11 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .247 | .330 | .272 | .601 | 65.1 | 70.4 | .281 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-04-25 | STL @ HOU Gameday | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1962-05-09 | LAD @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1963-08-17 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1963-07-21 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1962-09-18 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-04-28 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-05-08 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-07-09 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-09-22 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-09-23 | 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.