MLB / Players

Ray Blades

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 163 lb

BornAugust 6, 1896 · Mount Vernon, IL, USA

MLB debutAugust 19, 1922

Final gameSeptember 25, 1932

Seasons10 (1922–1932)

St. Louis Cardinals 1922–1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1930–1932

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified batters

107

48.1

498

50.6

416

48.7

73.4

127

51.3

40.5

85.4

74.7

RBI

33.5

87.3

5.1

32.3

47.5

.305

58.2

OBP

.409

82.9

SLG

.462

70.3

OPS

.871

76.6

wRC+

134.7

81.6

OPS+

131.0

78.5

wOBA

.406

77.8

sWAR

3.3

81.6

of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

15.7

91.4

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	37	163	130	27	39	2	4	3	21	25	21	3	3	.300	.428	.446	.874	134.7	130.2	.410	1.1
1923	98	366	317	48	78	21	5	5	44	37	46	4	2	.246	.342	.391	.733	95.8	94.3	.343	0.6
1924	131	514	456	86	142	21	13	11	68	35	38	7	9	.311	.373	.487	.860	130.9	131.0	.390	3.2
1925	122	532	462	112	158	37	8	12	57	59	47	6	8	.342	.423	.535	.958	142.0	140.5	.430	4.1
1926	107	498	416	81	127	17	12	8	43	62	57	6	0	.305	.409	.462	.871	134.7	131.0	.406	3.3
1927	61	216	180	33	57	8	5	2	29	28	22	3	0	.317	.414	.450	.864	133.8	129.8	.404	1.4
1928	51	111	85	9	20	7	1	1	19	20	26	0	0	.235	.393	.376	.769	109.7	101.6	.371	0.4
1930	45	127	101	26	40	6	2	4	25	21	15	1	0	.396	.504	.614	1.118	167.7	166.6	.491	1.4
1931	35	81	67	10	19	4	0	1	5	10	7	1	0	.284	.392	.388	.780	114.6	108.3	.369	0.3
1932	80	238	201	35	46	10	1	3	29	34	31	2	0	.229	.340	.333	.674	85.3	80.4	.318	0.0

Career totals

767

2,846

2,415

467

726

133

RBI

340

331

310

.3006

OBP

.3953

SLG

.4600

OPS

.8553

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
1925-06-14	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	4	3	1	1	1	3	1	9
1926-06-30	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1925-07-02	STL @ CHC Gameday	3	3	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1926-04-30	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	3	1	7
1924-07-07	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-04-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-17	CHC @ STL 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.