Mule Suttles

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb

BornMarch 31, 1901 · Blocton, AL, USA

Final gameMay 9, 1948

Seasons22 (1923–1944)

Birmingham Black Barons 1923–1925; St. Louis Stars 1926–1928; Chicago American Giants 1929; St. Louis Stars 1929; Baltimore Black Sox 1930; St. Louis Stars 1930–1931; Detroit Wolves 1932; Washington Pilots 1932; Chicago American Giants 1933–1935; Newark Eagles 1936–1940; New York Black Yankees 1941; Newark Eagles 1942–1944

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

12.9

160

14.4

134

14.4

18.7

11.5

3.6

43.2

RBI

28.8

29.5

67.6

30.2

42.4

.276

34.5

OBP

.390

74.1

SLG

.463

66.2

OPS

.853

72.7

wRC+

118.6

64.7

OPS+

121.3

69.8

wOBA

.397

81.3

sWAR

0.8

31.7

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 130 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

158.5

99.2

OPS+

171.1

99.5

sWAR

38.0

97.7

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
1923	37	145	138	23	40	6	3	1	16	6	0	6	0	.290	.319	.399	.718	129.3	137.3	.341	0.8
1924	81	307	282	43	88	22	3	3	50	15	1	3	1	.312	.355	.443	.799	113.3	118.1	.372	1.2
1925	68	278	242	45	80	6	5	10	59	30	0	5	0	.331	.404	.521	.925	139.3	146.7	.416	1.4
1926	89	397	358	90	152	28	19	32	130	31	3	15	0	.425	.472	.877	1.349	217.8	240.5	.578	7.0
1927	36	116	98	31	44	9	4	9	37	18	0	1	0	.449	.534	.898	1.432	256.9	279.7	.610	2.5
1928	76	333	301	72	108	17	12	21	75	23	0	6	0	.359	.406	.704	1.110	183.7	197.7	.486	4.2
1929	99	418	372	82	129	31	7	20	111	37	4	9	0	.347	.407	.629	1.036	154.9	166.0	.454	4.0
1930	60	257	213	71	86	19	7	17	80	35	4	14	0	.404	.500	.798	1.298	203.2	231.5	.553	4.3
1931	34	148	121	35	36	11	4	7	36	23	0	4	0	.298	.418	.628	1.046	170.9	189.6	.476	1.7
1932	55	224	189	31	58	22	3	4	48	30	5	5	0	.307	.407	.519	.926	146.7	155.0	.433	1.9
1933	41	175	157	29	39	8	1	7	34	16	0	5	0	.248	.318	.446	.764	104.5	106.6	.343	0.4
1934	39	162	147	20	45	4	3	4	30	13	1	2	0	.306	.363	.456	.818	123.3	128.5	.382	0.8
1935	43	169	142	29	40	9	0	9	37	24	1	5	0	.282	.386	.535	.921	124.0	129.8	.410	0.9
1936	28	111	99	29	40	7	0	12	36	10	0	3	0	.404	.464	.838	1.302	201.6	226.2	.558	1.7
1937	30	121	107	24	34	4	3	7	32	14	0	0	0	.318	.397	.607	1.004	143.6	154.6	.438	1.0
1938	27	98	86	18	25	3	0	6	22	10	0	0	0	.291	.365	.535	.899	125.9	134.8	.402	0.5
1939	39	160	139	38	51	10	3	9	37	20	0	3	0	.367	.450	.676	1.126	176.1	195.3	.498	2.0
1940	39	160	134	30	37	8	1	5	32	23	4	3	0	.276	.390	.463	.853	118.6	121.3	.397	0.8
1941	23	79	74	11	21	2	2	2	14	5	1	2	0	.284	.329	.446	.775	108.2	115.7	.350	0.2
1942	7	12	12	2	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	.417	.417	.500	.917	149.7	160.8	.429	0.1
1943	8	15	13	3	4	2	0	1	5	2	0	0	0	.308	.400	.692	1.092	163.4	189.3	.488	0.3
1944	13	29	24	7	6	0	1	2	6	4	0	0	0	.250	.379	.583	.963	137.0	155.4	.422	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	1	11	8	1	1	3.7	19.64	3.273	2.45	5.29	100.8	26.7	1.4
1932	1	10	1	2	1	6.7	1.35	1.800	1.35	4.63	110.9	309.4	1.9
1933	1	2	1	1	2	1.0	9.00	3.000	18.00	2.85	66.1	47.9	0.4
1936	1	4	2	1	1	2.7	6.75	1.875	3.38	4.39	86.0	75.7	1.7
1943	1	2	0	1	1	2.0	0.00	1.500	4.50	4.63	96.2	—	0.3

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

972

3,914

3,448

763

1,168

229

275th-most career 3B

188

437th-most career HR

RBI

930

380th-most career RBI

389

.3387

24th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4092

45th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.6157

6th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

1.0249

9th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

6.750

WHIP

2.1875

K/9

3.38

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
1939-06-25	NE @ NBY Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1931-05-03	DTS @ SLS Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	3	2	10
1936-08-23	NE @ NYC Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	3	0	10
1939-04-27	NE @ ATL Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	0	5	0	9
1935-07-14	CAG @ NYC Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1933-07-05	CAG @ CBB Gameday	1.0	2	1	1	1	2
1932-07-31	HOM @ WPI Gameday	6.2	10	2	1	2	1
1936-07-25	NE @ HOM Gameday	2.2	4	2	2	1	1
1943-06-19	HSL @ NE Gameday	2.0	2	0	0	1	1
1930-04-26	SLS @ BEG Gameday	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

Hall of Fame, 2006 (Negro League)

5× 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.