MLB / Players

Oscar Melillo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 150 lb

BornAugust 4, 1899 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1926

Final gameSeptember 18, 1937

Seasons12 (1926–1937)

St. Louis Browns 1926–1934; Boston Red Sox 1935; St. Louis Browns 1935; Boston Red Sox 1936–1937

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified batters

125

32.8

514

32.8

462

31.9

24.1

117

22.4

24.1

12.1

6.9

RBI

24.1

59.5

65.5

22.4

32.8

.253

6.9

OBP

.324

19.8

SLG

.303

1.7

OPS

.627

3.4

wRC+

59.2

1.7

OPS+

59.2

1.7

wOBA

.301

4.3

sWAR

-0.8

0.9

of 117 qualified 1935 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

60.2

0.8

OPS+

63.0

0.8

sWAR

-7.6

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
1926	99	443	385	54	98	18	5	1	30	32	31	6	7	.255	.315	.335	.650	61.5	64.6	.310	-0.5
1927	107	400	356	45	80	18	2	0	26	25	28	3	6	.225	.276	.287	.562	39.2	42.8	.268	-1.6
1928	51	148	132	9	25	2	0	0	9	9	11	2	1	.189	.241	.205	.446	12.2	16.2	.218	-1.0
1929	141	544	494	57	146	17	10	5	67	29	30	11	6	.296	.337	.401	.738	84.3	86.3	.338	0.9
1930	149	617	574	62	147	30	10	5	59	23	44	15	9	.256	.287	.369	.656	59.4	62.4	.295	-1.0
1931	151	661	617	88	189	34	11	2	75	37	29	7	11	.306	.346	.407	.752	91.6	93.2	.346	1.7
1932	154	659	612	71	148	19	11	3	66	36	42	6	6	.242	.286	.324	.610	50.4	53.6	.282	-1.8
1933	132	532	496	50	145	23	6	3	79	29	18	12	10	.292	.333	.381	.714	81.2	83.5	.331	0.7
1934	144	589	552	54	133	19	3	2	55	28	27	4	6	.241	.279	.297	.576	37.4	43.0	.271	-2.5
1935	125	514	462	53	117	16	2	1	44	46	26	3	2	.253	.324	.303	.627	59.2	59.2	.301	-0.8
1936	98	367	327	39	74	12	4	0	32	28	16	0	0	.226	.287	.287	.575	39.1	39.9	.274	-1.5
1937	26	62	56	8	14	2	0	0	6	5	4	0	1	.250	.311	.286	.597	49.6	50.1	.285	-0.2

Career totals

1,377

5,536

5,063

590

1,316

210

478th-most career 3B

RBI

548

327

306

.2599

OBP

.3064

SLG

.3397

OPS

.6461

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
1929-05-23	BAL @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	3	10
1931-06-03	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	4	8
1933-05-06	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	0	2	7
1930-07-28	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	0	7
1931-06-02	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-04-13	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-16	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-17	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-18	BAL @ DET 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.