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Ray Bates

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornFebruary 8, 1890 · Paterson, NJ, USA

MLB debutMay 31, 1913

Final gameOctober 3, 1917

Seasons2 (1913–1917)

Cleveland Naps 1913; Philadelphia Athletics 1917

Percentile snapshot

1917 season — qualified batters

127

40.8

526

43.3

485

51.7

42.5

115

45.8

64.2

54.2

57.5

RBI

83.3

34.2

35.8

.237

21.7

OBP

.277

7.5

SLG

.320

31.7

OPS

.597

22.5

wRC+

73.8

11.7

OPS+

80.0

19.2

wOBA

.292

sWAR

0.4

19.2

of 121 qualified 1917 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.3

55.7

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
1913	27	35	30	4	5	0	2	0	4	3	9	3	0	.167	.265	.300	.565	61.1	63.0	.281	0.0
1917	127	526	485	47	115	20	7	2	66	21	39	12	0	.237	.277	.320	.597	73.8	80.0	.292	0.4

Career totals

154

561

515

120

RBI

.2330

OBP

.2766

SLG

.3184

OPS

.5950

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
1917-04-14	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	0	5	9
1917-06-06	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	3	7
1917-06-16	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	1	2	0	0	1	2	5
1917-08-11	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	0	1	5
1917-07-12	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	0	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-11	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-12	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-16	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.