MLB / Players

Odell Hale

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 10, 1908 · Hosston, LA, USA

MLB debutAugust 1, 1931

Final gameSeptember 7, 1941

Seasons10 (1931–1941)

Cleveland Indians 1931; Cleveland Indians 1933–1940; Boston Red Sox 1941; New York Giants 1941

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

130

40.5

559

52.9

496

49.6

45.5

138

47.9

77.7

6.6

55.4

RBI

56.2

45.5

38.8

32.2

.278

38.8

OBP

.338

28.9

SLG

.399

41.3

OPS

.737

35.5

wRC+

85.6

OPS+

86.8

21.5

wOBA

.340

31.4

sWAR

0.9

24.8

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.0

41.6

OPS+

101.5

44.7

sWAR

14.5

90.7

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
1931	25	102	92	14	26	2	4	1	5	8	8	2	0	.283	.340	.424	.764	92.5	94.3	.350	0.3
1933	98	386	351	49	97	19	8	10	64	30	37	2	3	.276	.333	.462	.795	102.7	106.2	.361	1.5
1934	143	616	563	82	170	44	6	13	101	48	50	8	12	.302	.357	.471	.827	109.3	112.3	.377	2.9
1935	150	648	589	80	179	37	11	16	101	52	55	15	13	.304	.361	.486	.847	113.9	116.4	.384	3.4
1936	153	693	620	126	196	50	13	14	87	64	43	8	5	.316	.380	.506	.887	114.4	117.1	.399	3.7
1937	154	626	561	74	150	32	4	6	82	56	41	9	6	.267	.335	.371	.706	77.4	77.8	.328	0.5
1938	130	559	496	69	138	32	2	8	69	44	39	8	1	.278	.338	.399	.737	85.6	86.8	.340	0.9
1939	108	286	253	36	79	16	2	4	48	25	18	4	5	.312	.374	.439	.813	112.0	112.7	.373	1.5
1940	48	55	50	3	11	3	1	0	6	5	7	0	0	.220	.291	.320	.611	62.1	62.5	.284	-0.1
1941	53	151	126	18	25	5	0	1	10	21	17	1	0	.198	.313	.262	.575	64.3	59.2	.288	-0.1

Career totals

1,062

4,122

3,701

551

1,071

240

RBI

573

353

315

.2894

424th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3517

SLG

.4410

OPS

.7927

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
1938-07-12	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	1	5	0	10
1934-05-30	CWS @ CLE Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1936-08-18	CLE @ CWS Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	1	1	1	9
1933-08-02	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1934-05-09	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-04-14	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-15	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-16	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-18	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-19	DET @ CLE 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.