Muddy Ruel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 150 lb

BornFebruary 20, 1896 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutMay 29, 1915

Final gameAugust 25, 1934

Seasons19 (1915–1934)

St. Louis Browns 1915; New York Yankees 1917–1920; Boston Red Sox 1921–1922; Washington Senators 1923–1930; Boston Red Sox 1931; Detroit Tigers 1931–1932; St. Louis Browns 1933; Chicago White Sox 1934

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

131

62.7

504

56.8

428

52.7

50.3

132

56.2

38.5

34.9

11.8

RBI

47.9

88.8

39.1

52.1

12.4

.308

56.8

OBP

.403

81.7

SLG

.376

29.6

OPS

.779

50.9

wRC+

109.9

55.6

OPS+

104.6

50.9

wOBA

.375

57.4

sWAR

3.3

78.1

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.8

21.9

OPS+

84.2

sWAR

21.1

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
1915	10	19	14	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	5	0	0	.000	.263	.000	.263	19.3	-19.8	.205	-0.1
1917	6	20	17	1	2	0	0	0	1	2	2	1	0	.118	.211	.118	.328	-0.4	-0.5	.184	-0.1
1918	3	8	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	174.2	149.4	.439	0.1
1919	79	273	233	18	56	6	0	0	31	34	26	4	0	.240	.340	.266	.606	77.1	71.4	.307	0.9
1920	82	284	261	30	70	14	1	1	15	15	18	4	2	.268	.310	.341	.651	69.3	71.7	.308	0.5
1921	113	412	358	41	99	21	1	1	45	41	15	2	7	.277	.353	.349	.702	84.4	82.0	.335	1.4
1922	116	414	361	34	92	15	1	0	28	41	26	4	2	.255	.333	.302	.634	69.1	66.8	.308	0.7
1923	136	528	449	63	142	24	3	0	54	55	21	4	6	.316	.394	.383	.778	114.0	110.8	.374	3.7
1924	149	599	501	50	142	20	2	0	57	62	20	7	11	.283	.370	.331	.702	89.4	84.9	.344	2.3
1925	127	473	393	55	122	9	2	0	54	63	16	4	5	.310	.411	.344	.754	103.7	96.0	.371	2.7
1926	117	444	368	42	110	22	4	1	53	61	14	7	6	.299	.401	.389	.790	114.8	109.8	.380	3.2
1927	131	504	428	61	132	16	5	1	52	63	18	9	6	.308	.403	.376	.779	109.9	104.6	.375	3.3
1928	108	404	350	31	90	18	2	0	55	44	14	12	10	.257	.342	.320	.662	79.0	75.7	.318	1.1
1929	69	224	188	16	46	4	2	0	20	31	7	0	4	.245	.352	.287	.639	73.5	66.7	.314	0.5
1930	66	229	198	18	50	3	4	0	26	24	13	1	0	.253	.342	.308	.650	72.9	67.3	.311	0.4
1931	47	148	133	7	31	6	0	0	9	14	7	0	0	.233	.306	.278	.584	58.8	56.7	.283	0.1
1932	51	155	136	10	32	4	2	0	18	17	6	1	0	.235	.320	.294	.614	64.3	60.6	.296	0.2
1933	36	87	63	13	12	2	0	0	8	24	4	0	0	.190	.414	.222	.636	90.2	67.7	.345	0.4
1934	22	67	57	4	12	3	0	0	7	8	5	0	0	.211	.308	.263	.571	49.2	46.0	.283	0.0

Career totals

1,468

5,292

4,514

494

1,242

187

RBI

534

606

238

.2751

OBP

.3645

384th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3321

OPS

.6966

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
1926-06-05	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
1923-04-27	ATH @ MIN Gameday	6	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1921-06-24	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	1	0	6
1922-09-19	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	6
1927-09-03	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-18	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.