MLB / Players

Ray Harrell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb
BornFebruary 16, 1912 · Petrolia, TX, USA
MLB debutApril 16, 1935
Final gameJuly 22, 1945
Seasons6 (1935–1945)

St. Louis Cardinals 1935; St. Louis Cardinals 1937–1938; Chicago Cubs 1939; Philadelphia Phillies 1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1940; New York Giants 1945

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-3.7
0.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
193511540000000300.000.000.000.000-119.9-100.0.000-0.6
19373526221100002800.045.125.045.170-58.7-52.4.101-1.3
19383210101000000400.000.000.000.000-131.8-100.0.000-0.2
193926333113100121100.097.152.129.281-36.3-23.7.141-1.5
19403000000000000-0.1
194512651110001000.200.333.400.733101.9100.6.3500.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19351111100039221113429.76.671.6853.945.01122.561.3-0.6
193735153711199635941796.75.871.6343.824.94124.167.8-1.3
19383232321078342932663.04.861.6984.574.48113.281.5-0.2
19392612390401307362408112.05.871.7143.214.79121.967.0-1.5
19403000000532303.38.102.1008.102.7571.547.4-0.1
1945120000003414147125.34.971.8952.494.37112.078.50.0

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

G
119
PA
80
AB
72
R
4
H
5
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
5
SO
26
SB
0
BA
.0694
OBP
.1299
SLG
.0972
OPS
.2271

Pitching

G (P)
119
GS
31
W
9
L
20
SV
3
CG
6
SHO
1
IP
330
SO (P)
136
BB allowed
177
ERA
5.700
WHIP
1.7030
K/9
3.71

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1939-09-13PHI @ STL Gameday211100002
1945-05-30SF @ CHC Gameday111100002
1937-08-29STL @ ATL Gameday301000001
1939-06-10STL @ PHI Gameday301000001
1939-09-16PHI @ CHC Gameday301000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1938-06-01PHI @ STL Gameday9.0944460
1937-08-14PIT @ STL Gameday8.0555650
1939-08-13PHI @ SF Gameday7.0966452
1937-08-29STL @ ATL Gameday9.0100340
1939-09-23LAD @ PHI Gameday9.0884640

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.