MLB / Players

Mickey Owen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 190 lb

BornApril 4, 1916 · Nixa, MO, USA

MLB debutMay 2, 1937

Final gameSeptember 11, 1954

Seasons13 (1937–1954)

St. Louis Cardinals 1937–1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941–1945; Chicago Cubs 1949–1951; Boston Red Sox 1954

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified batters

130

35.5

503

28.2

461

28.2

20.9

126

34.5

40.9

22.7

15.5

RBI

34.5

42.7

71.8

39.1

.273

37.3

OBP

.326

32.7

SLG

.336

OPS

.662

22.7

wRC+

85.4

26.4

OPS+

86.3

24.5

wOBA

.314

25.5

sWAR

1.9

55.5

of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

75.1

6.1

OPS+

76.4

6.5

sWAR

11.3

88.2

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
1937	80	253	234	17	54	4	2	0	20	15	13	1	0	.231	.277	.265	.542	43.6	46.6	.258	-0.3
1938	122	433	397	45	106	25	2	4	36	32	14	2	0	.267	.325	.370	.695	85.4	86.7	.323	1.6
1939	131	402	344	32	89	18	2	3	35	43	28	6	0	.259	.344	.349	.693	83.9	82.2	.329	1.6
1940	117	349	307	27	81	16	2	0	27	34	13	4	0	.264	.341	.329	.670	84.3	82.2	.319	1.4
1941	128	437	386	32	89	15	2	1	44	34	14	1	0	.231	.296	.288	.584	62.0	63.6	.282	0.5
1942	133	484	421	53	109	16	3	0	44	44	17	10	0	.259	.330	.311	.642	89.0	88.0	.313	2.2
1943	106	395	365	31	95	11	2	0	54	25	15	4	0	.260	.309	.301	.611	72.5	75.6	.296	0.9
1944	130	503	461	43	126	20	3	1	42	36	17	4	0	.273	.326	.336	.662	85.4	86.3	.314	1.9
1945	24	98	84	5	24	9	0	0	11	10	2	0	0	.286	.368	.393	.761	113.4	111.5	.364	0.7
1949	62	214	198	15	54	9	3	2	18	12	13	1	0	.273	.318	.379	.696	84.8	87.6	.318	0.8
1950	86	277	259	22	63	11	0	2	21	13	16	2	0	.243	.282	.309	.591	49.9	55.2	.271	-0.1
1951	58	146	125	10	23	6	0	0	15	19	13	1	0	.184	.292	.232	.524	42.5	41.2	.260	-0.1
1954	32	81	68	6	16	3	0	1	11	9	6	0	1	.235	.309	.324	.632	60.2	66.9	.297	0.1

Career totals

1,209

4,072

3,649

338

929

163

RBI

378

326

181

.2546

OBP

.3176

SLG

.3223

OPS

.6399

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
1949-07-09	CHC @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	2	8
1944-08-21	LAD @ PIT Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	0	2	6
1937-07-16	STL @ PHI Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	0	2	6
1944-06-12	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	3	6
1938-04-27	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	3	0	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-04-20	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-22	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-23	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-24	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-25	CHC @ STL 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

4× 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.