MLB / Players

Ossie Bluege

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 162 lb

BornOctober 24, 1900 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1922

Final gameJuly 13, 1939

Seasons18 (1922–1939)

Washington Senators 1922–1939

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

140

65.1

580

65.8

501

57.7

54.4

131

47.7

34.2

61.7

RBI

72.5

76.5

34.2

70.5

9.4

.261

22.8

OBP

.338

SLG

.325

14.8

OPS

.663

21.5

wRC+

81.2

20.1

OPS+

78.4

17.4

wOBA

.318

27.5

sWAR

0.7

36.2

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.1

20.6

OPS+

85.7

16.7

sWAR

16.0

91.6

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
1922	19	71	61	5	12	1	0	0	2	7	7	1	0	.197	.300	.213	.513	45.0	38.8	.263	-0.2
1923	109	456	379	48	93	15	7	2	42	48	53	5	3	.245	.343	.338	.680	87.3	84.3	.331	0.9
1924	117	465	402	59	113	15	4	2	49	39	36	7	5	.281	.358	.353	.711	88.9	87.0	.344	1.1
1925	145	607	522	77	150	27	4	4	79	59	56	16	15	.287	.362	.377	.739	92.2	90.8	.351	1.6
1926	139	584	487	69	132	19	8	3	65	70	46	12	9	.271	.368	.361	.730	97.2	93.7	.352	1.9
1927	146	583	503	71	138	21	10	1	66	57	47	15	5	.274	.354	.362	.716	89.4	87.3	.341	1.3
1928	146	588	518	78	154	33	7	2	75	46	27	18	6	.297	.364	.400	.763	102.4	101.4	.356	2.4
1929	64	246	220	35	65	6	0	5	31	19	15	6	4	.295	.354	.391	.745	92.5	92.1	.345	0.7
1930	134	562	476	64	138	27	7	3	69	51	40	15	8	.290	.368	.395	.763	97.2	94.7	.352	1.8
1931	152	634	570	82	155	25	7	8	98	50	39	16	10	.272	.336	.382	.718	90.3	90.2	.334	1.5
1932	149	614	507	64	131	22	4	5	64	83	41	9	7	.258	.367	.347	.714	94.7	89.2	.341	1.8
1933	140	580	501	63	131	14	0	6	71	55	34	6	7	.261	.338	.325	.663	81.2	78.4	.318	0.7
1934	99	314	285	39	70	9	2	0	11	23	15	2	1	.246	.306	.291	.598	58.5	57.5	.287	-0.4
1935	100	363	320	44	84	14	3	0	34	37	21	2	2	.263	.341	.325	.666	77.5	75.2	.319	0.5
1936	90	368	319	43	92	12	1	1	55	38	16	5	3	.288	.375	.342	.716	87.0	81.9	.344	0.7
1937	42	142	127	12	36	4	2	1	13	13	9	1	1	.283	.355	.370	.725	87.8	86.5	.339	0.4
1938	58	209	184	25	48	12	1	0	21	21	11	3	1	.261	.340	.337	.677	77.3	74.9	.321	0.2
1939	18	66	59	5	9	0	0	0	3	7	2	1	0	.153	.242	.153	.395	7.7	3.4	.206	-0.6

Career totals

1,867

353rd-most career G

7,452

370th-most career PA

6,440

413th-most career AB

883

1,751

450th-most career H

276

437th-most career 3B

RBI

848

466th-most career RBI

723

350th-most career BB

515

140

.2719

OBP

.3518

SLG

.3556

OPS

.7074

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
1931-05-11	MIN @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1927-09-06	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	4	1	8
1930-07-10	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	1	4	0	8
1931-08-06	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	3	1	7
1933-06-18	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	1	4	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-04-12	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-13	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-15	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-16	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-17	ATH @ MIN 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

1× 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.