Ray Benge

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornApril 22, 1902 · Jacksonville, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1925

Final gameJune 2, 1938

Seasons12 (1925–1938)

Cleveland Indians 1925–1926; Philadelphia Phillies 1928–1932; Brooklyn Dodgers 1933–1935; Boston Bees 1936; Philadelphia Phillies 1936; Cincinnati Reds 1938

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified pitchers

56.7

48.9

21.1

35.6

1.1

SHO

231

43.3

35.6

55.6

25.6

54.4

160.7

ERA

5.49

12.2

WHIP

1.793

2.2

K/9

2.52

FIP

4.29

66.7

FIP-

107.7

14.4

ERA+

72.8

2.2

sWAR

-1.5

1.1

of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.4

19.7

sWAR

13.2

89.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1925	2	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	102.6	103.2	.375	0.5
1926	8	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	148.4	156.1	.439	0.2
1928	42	69	58	1	12	1	2	4	6	.207	.258	.224	.482	15.8	22.8	.234	1.4
1929	43	78	74	8	15	0	4	1	9	.203	.213	.203	.416	-13.6	-1.1	.194	-0.4
1930	38	93	88	9	18	3	7	2	7	.205	.222	.239	.461	-2.8	6.3	.209	1.5
1931	38	94	88	6	18	2	7	0	9	.205	.205	.227	.432	-7.0	10.5	.197	5.4
1932	41	78	75	2	13	1	2	1	7	.173	.184	.187	.371	-23.4	-5.8	.170	2.7
1933	37	84	76	5	14	3	4	2	12	.184	.205	.224	.429	13.6	23.9	.201	1.8
1934	36	94	89	7	15	1	7	3	10	.169	.196	.180	.375	-3.4	2.9	.178	1.1
1935	23	48	47	3	9	0	4	0	4	.191	.191	.191	.383	-4.7	4.0	.175	0.4
1936	36	57	53	2	6	0	1	0	4	.113	.113	.113	.226	-52.3	-37.2	.105	-1.5
1938	9	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	82.9	86.9	.308	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	9	2	3	3	0	11.7	1.54	1.029	2.31	3.36	76.5	284.9	0.5
1926	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	15	5	4	3	0	11.7	3.86	1.629	2.31	3.44	85.3	104.4	0.2
1928	40	28	8	18	1	12	1	219	102	88	68	15	201.7	4.55	1.522	3.03	4.45	104.4	93.6	1.4
1929	38	27	11	15	4	9	2	255	139	77	78	24	199.0	6.29	1.668	3.53	5.31	102.4	82.6	-0.4
1930	38	29	11	15	1	14	0	305	143	81	70	22	225.7	5.70	1.710	2.79	5.29	96.6	95.9	1.5
1931	38	31	14	18	2	16	2	251	87	61	117	12	247.0	3.17	1.263	4.26	3.46	81.3	134.2	5.4
1932	41	28	13	12	6	13	2	247	100	58	89	15	222.3	4.05	1.372	3.60	3.82	87.4	108.0	2.7
1933	37	30	10	17	1	16	2	238	87	55	74	11	228.7	3.42	1.281	2.91	3.35	102.9	95.0	1.8
1934	36	32	14	12	0	14	1	252	109	61	64	11	227.0	4.32	1.379	2.54	4.00	101.5	91.1	1.1
1935	23	17	9	9	1	5	1	142	62	47	39	12	124.7	4.48	1.516	2.82	4.80	121.1	88.6	0.4
1936	36	25	8	13	1	2	0	231	98	57	45	9	160.7	5.49	1.793	2.52	4.29	107.7	72.8	-1.5
1938	9	0	1	1	2	0	0	13	7	6	5	1	15.3	4.11	1.239	2.93	4.11	111.9	89.3	0.1

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

353

706

659

124

RBI

.1882

OBP

.2039

SLG

.2064

OPS

.4103

Pitching

G (P)

346

249

101

130

277th-most career L

102

402nd-most career CG

SHO

1,875

SO (P)

655

BB allowed

598

ERA

4.516

WHIP

1.4797

K/9

3.14

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	RBI	TB
1931-08-14	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	5
1934-07-22	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	1	3	1	2	4
1933-06-22	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	3
1930-05-09	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	1	3
1930-05-13	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-06-16	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	2	13	0
1932-09-08	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	8	0
1931-05-30	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	7	0
1932-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	5	7	1
1932-05-28	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	7	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.